BOARD00917

• Board Meeting Date: 3/22/2005
• Description: Flood Section - South Platte River Easement Request - Roxborough Park Metropolitan District
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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STATE OF COLORADO

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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.cwcb.state.co.US

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MEMORANDUM

Bill Owens
Gov:emor

TO:
FROM:
DATE:
SUBJECT:

Colorado Water Conservation Board Members
Larry Lang, P.E., Chlef, Flood Protection Section
November 4, 2004
Agenda Item 19, November 4, 2004 BoardMeeting--
Request from Roxborough Park Metropolitan District,
Littleton, Colorado.

Russel George
Executive Director

Rod Kuharich
CWCB Director

Dan McAuliffe
Deputy Director

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Introduction
At the November 6-7, 1995 Board Meeting, approval was given by the Board to grant requests for easernents in
CWCB's right-of-way along the Chatfield Downstream Channel Improvement Project (Project) on a case-by-case
basis. In addition, at the November 21, 2001 Board Meeting, the'Board adopted the "Easement Guidelines for the
Chatfield Downstream Channel Improvement Project" dated Novernber 2001. The Colorado Water, Conservation
Board (Board) entered into many easement agreements and contracts for many types of uses within the Board's
South Platte River and floodplain right-of-way. In addition the Board has project agreements with the Corps of
, Engineers and South Suburban Parks and Recreation District (District) The District's agreement was full executed
on May 5, 1997 for, the implementation of certain Public Recreational Facilities .within the Project Recreational
Lands.

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The Staff has received a request from the Roxborough Park Metropolitan District (Roxborough), dated October 28,
2004, to consider an easement along the South Platte River. The Roxborough request letter and partially completed
application are attached. Due to magnitude of this project request, Roxborough is seeking CWCB support for the
project proposal. Roxborough is seeking comments from all the interested parties.

Diseussioil
Roxborough is proposing to implement a major wastewater treatment plant project, which includes new pipeline
construction along the South Platte River floodplain. A portion of the proposed pipeline alignment includes lands
within the CWCB Chatfield Downstream Channel Improvement Project area (CWCB Right-of-Way). The
proposed pipeline will connect to an existing City of Littleton wastewater pipeline at the intersection Santa Fe Drive
and Belleview Avenue, crossing the South Platte Improvement Channel, and extending upstream the entire length of
the CWCB Right-of-Way (ROW) in the left (West) overbank area. The pipeline would ultimately connect to the
existing Roxborough Treatment Plant. The overall length of the project within the CWCB ROW is just over two
miles (presently estimated at 11,000 feet). The government entities involved in the 31lproval process are:

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. Chatfield Watershed Authority
. City of Littleton
. South Suburban Parks and Recreation District
. Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
. Denver Water

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