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1/22/2003
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CWCB Director's Report
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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Colorado's current obligation is about $28 million, not the $50+ million that Kansas was most <br />recently claiming. The Master's determination can be reviewed by the US Supreme Court, but so far <br />the Court has upheld his decisions, thus Colorado appears to have achieved a major victory in terms <br />of the potential liability as Kansas' original damage claims approached $300 million. The Attomey <br />General can address information on Compact compliance issues and questions about the damages <br />decision during the Board meeting. <br /> <br />Fountain Creek Watershed Study: Weare continuing to work with the City of Colorado Springs, <br />seven other municipalities and three counties on the initiation of the Corps' Watershed Study for <br />Fountain Creek. The local governments and the Corps are have finalized the Scope of Work. <br />Currently the City of Colorado Springs, the primary contact for the study, is negotiating <br />Intergovernmental Agreements (IGA's) with the other municipalities and with the three counties. A <br />meeting is being held in Colorado Springs on Jan. 17 to review progress on the IGA's. <br /> <br />The study contract will be between the City and the Corps. Besides the IGA's with the other ten local <br />governments, there will also be IGA's between the CWCB and the City ($300,000) and between the <br />Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) and the City (another $300,000). The City will then pay t1 <br />Corps of Engineers the local/state share of the project cost. It is expected that work on the three-year $3 <br />million study will begin later this winter or in the spring. <br /> <br />Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District (UA WCD) Augmentation Plan. In December, we <br />reviewed nine applications for participation under the VA WCD augmentation plan. Of these, two <br />were de minimis and seven had no impact on the Board's instream flow water rights. The evaluation <br />of the UA WCD applications for an augmentation certificate is an on-going monthly process that <br />began in 1993 as a result of a stipulation in Case No. 2-92CW084 and latter in Case Nos. 2- <br />94CW005 and 2-94CW041 (the VA WCD's umbrella augmentation plan). <br /> <br />The VA WCD was formed in 1978 for the purpose of preserving the use of available water rights in <br />the Upper Arkansas Valley for municipal, agricultural, industrial or domestic uses. The District <br />obtained decrees for its umbrella augmentation plan to provide replacement water for water uses of <br />its members. The CWCB entered into stipulations with the UA WCD in the above cases, whereby the <br />CWCB staff will review any application for participation under the VA WCD augmentation plan. <br />The VA WCD will not issue approval certificate for an application without written approval from the <br />CWCB. Thus far, Staff has evaluated over 700 applications for mostly domestic wells, out of which, <br />86 applications were found de minimis, and with the remainder having no impact on the Board's <br />water rights. <br /> <br />Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District New General Manager: Mr. James <br />Broderick has been hired to be the new General Manager of the District. <br /> <br />Update on New District: Directors of the newly created Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy <br />District were sworn in on Dec. 6, 2002. The seven directors representing Pueblo, Crowley, Otero, <br />Bent, and Prowers Counties then met in their first session to begin organizing and certifying the <br />property tax 1.5 mill levy approved by county voters during the formation election. <br /> <br />More recently the District has appointed an Interim Manager, Charles Houghton - an attorney from <br />Colorado Springs, and retained legal counsel, Mark Grueskin - from Denver. <br /> <br />Grueskin will be defending the District in the lawsuit filed by High Plains A&M challenging the <br />ballot questions creating the District and authorizing the new property tax. An initial hearing on this <br />case is scheduled for January 31 in La Junta. <br /> <br />9 <br /> <br />
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