BOARD00765

• Board Meeting Date: 7/18/2005
• Description: WSP Section - Discussion of RICD Correspondence Regarding RICDs as Works Engineering
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

STATE OF COLORADO

Colorado Water Conservation Board

Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: (303) ~1
FAX: [phone]
www.cwcb.state.co.us

May 19, 2005

Bill Owens
Governor

Russell George
Executive Director

Angeline C. Kinnaird
Program Director
Board of Licensure For Professional Engineers And Prof. land Surveyors
1560 Broadway Suite 1300
Denver Co 80202

Rod Kuharich
CWCB Director

Dan McAuliffe
Deputy Director

RE: Requested Review by the Board Regarding the Applicability of Title
12 Professions and Occupations Article 25 to the Design and Construction
of Whitewater Parks

Dear Ms. Kinnaird and Board members:

As you may know, our Board has certain statutory responsibilities with regard to

Recreational In Channel Diversions ("RICDs"). In the review of several whitewater courses

regarding water rights applications, several questions have arisen. They are as follQ.ws: 1)

whether the design of the structures that create certain whitewater features constitute "the

practice of engineering"; 2) whether these documents should be sealed by an engineer; 3)

whether the "design" work that has been done in certain instances is substandard; and 4)

whether courses designed and built by non-engineers would be considered the illegal

practice of engineering.

Our effort has included review of potential impacts to the floodplain, the ability of the

structures to control the flow, and information to evaluate the hydraulic performance of the

lltructures at various flow rates. However, there is a lack of conventional engineering

ColoradO Water Conser'l.lion Board
Flood Protection. Water Supply Planning and Finance. Stream and Lake Protection
Water Supply Protection. Conservation and Drought Planning