BOARD00356

• Board Meeting Date: 5/22/2000
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Director's Report Attachment - May 22-23, 2000, Board Meeting
Water Supply Planning and Finance Section - Design and Construction Status Report e

The CWCB Water Supply Planning and Finance Section has completed 6 projects in FY
99-00. Currently we have 13 projects under construction and II projects in the design phase.

The attached spreadsheet summarizes project status including budget, construction
schedule, and progress to date. During this current reporting period 2 projects were completed.

The attached progress report briefly outlines all active project design and construction
information and progress to date.

Projects Under Construction

Leroux Creek Water Users Association - Carl Smith Dam Rehabilitation
Authorization: Emergency Infrastructure Account County: Delta - N of Hotchkiss
Water Source: Leroux Creek Project Yield: 750 ac.ft.
Terms of Loan: $1,450,000 @ 3.75% for 30 years Project Type: Dam Rehabilitation

This $1,600,000 project is the reconstruction ofthe Carl Smith Dam, located 15 miles
north of Hotchkiss in Delta County, which failed unexpectedly in May 1998. The Leroux Creek
Water Users Association contracted Smitl1 Geotechnical Engineering Consultants of Forth
Collins to analyze design alternatives and complete construction plans and specifications. The
selected alternative involves the reconstruction of the dam failure area, widening the crest width .a
from 12-ft. to 16-ft., additional embankment along the downstream face of the dam, rip rap _
protection along the upstream face of the dam, reconstruction of tI1e spillway to pass the Probable
Maximum Flood, a toe drain and drainage blanket, and the construction of a new outlet system.
Construction commenced by Zak Dirt of Longmont in September of 1999 and is currently 95%
complete. The remaining punch list items are on-hold over the course of the winter and will be
completed, weather permitting, in June 2000

Excelsior Irrigating Companv - Excelsior Ditch Rehabilitation
Authorization: SB 97-008 County: Pueblo - E of Pueblo
Water Source: Arkansas River Project Yield: 4,250 ac.ft.
Terms of Loan: $251,125 @ 3.75% for 30 yrs Project Type: Ditch Rehabilitation

This $335,000 project is the re-construction of approximately 2 miles of open ditch,
which has previously been abandoned and farmed over. Also included in the project is the
construction of several pump stations for water delivery. The project is located in Pueblo County
10 miles east of Pueblo. Project design was prepared by the Pueblo Office of the Natural
Resource Conservation Service, Ralph Adkins, P.E. of Pueblo, Irrigation Engineering of
Alamosa and Hendrooke Sprinklers ofFt. Collins. Project construction commenced by the
owner and several sub-contractors in May 1998 and was originally scheduled for completion in
the fall of 1999. Flooding damaged tI1e project area during the summer of 1999 that has delayed
the project's completion schedule until August of2000.

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