BOARD00397

• Board Meeting Date: 11/23/1998
• Description: CF Section - Non-Reimbursable Construction Projects - Arkansas River Channel Conveyance and Rehabilitation Project Continuation
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Colorado Water Conservation Board

Department of Natural Resources
721 Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203
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STATE OF COLOlV\DO

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Roy Romer
Governor

MEMORANDUM

Jtlmes S. Lochhead
Executive Director, DNR
Oaries C. life, P.E.
Director, CWeB
Peter H. Evans
Acting Director, eWeB

TO: Colorado Water Conservation Board Members

FROM: Larry Lang

DATE: October 8,1998

SUBJECT: Agenda Item 25b, November 23-24, 1998 Board Meeting-
Arkansas River Channel Conveyance and Rehabilitation Project
Continuation

. BACKGROUND

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In a Board memorandum dated September II, 1998, Agenda Item 13c at the September
1998 Board meeting, a status report on the Arkansas River Channel Restoration Study
was presented to the Board. Three alternatives for studying the Upper Reach of the
project were proposed as follows:

Alternative No.1 - Continuation of the joint CWCB/Albuquerque study effort which
would be funded and cost-shared under the Corps' Section 22 Planning Assistance To
States Program.

Alternative No.2 - Joint CWCB/Corps study effort under the Corps' General
Investigation (GI) authority.

Alternative No.3 - State management of a basin-wide study investigation.

The Upper Reach extends upstream from John Martin Reservoir to the Otero/Pueblo
County line. Staff requested Board guidance on which alternative to undertake.

Subsequent to the September Board meeting, staff met with the Albuquerque Corps of
Engineers and was advised that Section 22 - Planning Assistance to States - funding
would be the only funding available for federal fiscal year 1999 beginning October I,