BOARD00606

• Board Meeting Date: 11/19/2001
• Description: CF Section - LPWCD - Water Storage Facility Feasibility Study and Project Design
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Colorado Water Conservation Board
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
www,evvcb.state.co.u5

STATE OF COLORADO

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MEMORANDUM

Bill Owens
Governor
Greg E. Walcher
Executive Director

TO:

Colorado Water Conservation Board Members

John Van Sciver, P'E.~ 1/5
Mike Serlet, P.E., Chief
Water Supply Planning a tl Finance Section,

Rod Kuharich
ewes Director
Dan McAuliffe
Deputy Director

FROM:

DATE: October 31,2001

SUBJECT: Agenda Item 24b., November 19-20, 2001 Board Meeting
La Plata Water Conservancy District (LPWCD)

Water Storage Facility Feasibility Study and Project Design
(La Plata River Water Management Program)
Long Hollow and Red Mesa Ward Reservoirs

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Introduction

The La Plata Water Conservancy District has requested non-reimbursable funding in amount of
$444,645 to conduct a Feasibility Study to evaluate construction of the Long Hollow Reservoir
and enlargement of the Red Mesa Ward Reservoir, (Please see attached project description
and map.)

Backaround

The La Plata Water Conservancy District (LPWCD) is located in the western portion of La Plata
County and was formed in 1944 by the irrigators of the La Plata River Basin, Its original activities
were focused on the development of a reservoir in Long Hollow but the plans were delayed by the
onset of World War II and have not yet been completed, The organization does not currently have
any water supply facilities,

LPWCD, in cooperation with the Animas-La Plata Water Conservancy District (ALPWCD) and the
Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), developed a Water Management and Conservation Plan for
Western La Plata County that was adopted in August 2000, This was done because it has
become increasingly difficult for the water resources of the basin to meet the needs of existing
agriculture, growing residential development, and the demands of New Mexico under the La Plata
River Compact. Specifically, it is very difficult to manage water deliveries to New Mexico because
there is no regulating reservoir near the state line,

Flood Protection. Water Project Planning and Financing. Stream and lake Protection
Water Supply Protection. Conservation Planning