BOARD00220

• Board Meeting Date: 9/22/2003
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Stream & Lake Protection Program Celebrates 30th Anniversary: On Sept. 5 we hosted a dinner with
Trout Unlimited in conjunction with their national convention in Denver to recognize Colorado's
program. More than 80 people attended the event including program pioneers Sen. Fred Anderson, David .
Robbins, and Eddie Kochman. Justice Greg Hobbs delive~ed the keynote address.

Arkansas RiveriBasin

Pipeline Scoping Meetings: Reclamation has announced the first "scoping meetings" in the
environmental study process for Colorado Springs Utilities' planned Southern Delivery System that
entails a large pipeline to carry water from the Arkansas River to Colorado Springs, Fountain and
Security. Reclamation is conducting the environmental impact study because the system will involve
Lake Pueblo, a reservoir in the bureau's Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. It hopes to complete the draft report
in the fall 2004.

At the scoping meetings, public entities and individuals mlty comment on the plan and four alternatives
for the route the pipeline will follow. Meetings will be hel\i:

Sept. 24 at the Buena Vista Community Center;
Sept. 25 at Fountain -Fort Carson High School in Fountain;
Oct. 7 at the Koshare Kiva in La Junta;
Oct. 9 at Colorado State University-Pueblo's Occhiato Center ballroom; and
Oct. 15 at the Colorado Springs City Auditorium.

Comments may be mailed to Pat Mangan at Reclamation's' Eastern Colorado area office, 11 056 W.
County Road 18E, Loveland CO 80537, or e-mailed to Dm:[e-mail].

Fountain Creek Watershed Study: The Albuquerque District ofthe US Army Corps of Engineers
(Corps) has posted a "Pre-solicitation Notice" for consultaht services to assist it with completing the
Fountain Creek Watershed Study. The study will address the entire Fountain Creek watershed, including .
portions ofEl Paso, Teller, and Pueblo Counties, the Towtis of Palmer Lake, Monument, and Green
Mountain Falls, and the Cities of Colorado Springs, W ood~and Park, Manitou Springs, Fountain, and
Pueblo. The $3,000,000 study will take approximately 3 -i 3.5 years. It will be funded 50% by the Corps,
30% by the local governments, 10% by CWCB, and 1 0% ~y the Colorado Department of Local Affairs
(DOLA). Pre-selection of 4 -6 finalist consultants is sched,uled for the week of September 22 - 26,2003.
One of those finalists will be chosen during the week ofO~tober 6 -10, 2003. Negotiations with the
selected consultant will begin innnediately, with work antiCipated to begin in November or December
2003.

Kansas v. Colorado Decision: The Special Master has iss~ed a draft of his proposed forth report that
includes his recommendations on all remaining issues. Hi~ recommendations generally adopt Colorado's
positions on damages and future compliance measures. Far example:

· Damages are to be calculated according to Colorado's 1p.ethodology and will be approximately $30
Million as opposed to Kansas' calculation of$53 Million;

· Kansas' insistence on the need for a Federal River Master was denied, but the Supreme Court should
retain jurisdiction for a brief additional period;
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. The SEO's well rules, including use of the PCC method: of pumping measurement, and administration
of groundwater pursuant to substitute supply plans prevented further improper depletions and allowed
Colorado to achieve full Compact compliance duringtl).e period 1997-1999;

· Colorado's irrigated acreage and well studies will be used in future HI Model runs, using Kansas' ET
methodology to determine crop consumptive use, but agreeing with Colorado's position that HI model .
results should be averaged over a 10 year period to det~rmine future compliance; and,

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