BOARD01205

• Board Meeting Date: 2/11/1981
• Description: CWCB Meeting
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

STATE OF COLORADO

COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
Department of Natural Resources
623 Slale Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver. Colorado 60203
Phone: [phone]

Rkhard D. 1.1mm
Governor
,. William ,\.'I.Donald
DireC"lor

David Walker
Deputy Director

M E M 0 RAN DUM

TO:

Members, Colorado Water Conservation Board

,

FROM:

Bill McDonald, Director

DATE:

February 6, 1981

SUBJECT:

Agenda Item 4 - Meadow Creek Dam Project,
Board Meeting, February II, 1981

The original total estimated cost of this project, which
was authorized last year and has already been constructed-,
was $2.4 million - - $l.33 million of which was for construction
of the dam and associated facilities and $1.07 million of which
was the estimated value of the lands, easements, rights-of-way,
and water rights donated to the project sponsor by individuals
who will benefit from the project. The $l.33 million estimated
construction cost included the cost of a cutoff trench which
had already been constructed before the project sponsor sought
funding from the Board to complete the project. That cost was
paid by the project sponsor out of its own funds.

When the Board recommended this project to the General
Assembly, our policy was to fund 50 percent of a project up
to a maximum of $l million. The $1 million limit applied in
this case and that is what the General Assembly authorized.

With the project now completed, the actual construction
cost, including the previously completed cutoff trench, has
come to $1.42 million. Total project cost stands at $2.5
million ($1.42 million plus $l.07 million for the value of
donated property). The project sponsor, the Michigan River
Water Conservancy District, has requested that the Board
recommend to the General Assembly that this project receive an
additional $4l9,000 Ithe difference between the $1.0 million
already authorized and the actual construction cost of $1.419
million, including the previously completed cutoff trench
at $160,000).

COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD, Frederick V. Kroeger, Chairman
Robert A. Jackson, Vice Chairman. John R. Fetcher, Steamboat Springs
C.M. Furneaux, Walden. Floyd L. Getz, Monte Vista. Patrick A. Gormley, Grand Junction
Richard W. Johnston, Montrose. David W. Robbins, Denver. Herbert H. Vandemoer, Sterling