BOARD01323

• Board Meeting Date: 7/11/1978
• Description: Agenda, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

permanent pool in the.reservoir for fishery and recreational purposes.
The United States took the, position that if the state wanted a perma-
nent pool, it would have to be at the expense of the state. However,
the United States is providing the facility without charge to the
state. Subsequently, the Colorado General Assembly did appropriate
some money to obtain the necessary water rights to maintain that
reservoir at approximately 20,000 acre-feet. The actual amount of
water required after the initial filling, would be to replace the
annual evaporation, which averages something like 3,000 acre-feet per
year. :

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At the same time that the project was being designed, immediately after
the 1965 floods, I w1;"ote to variolls municipalities here in the metro-
politan area advising them t~at we could make capacity available in
the reservoir for municipal and industrial storage if anyone wanted it
in accordance with the laws governing the repayments for conservation
capacity. I wrote to every municipality here in the metropolitan area.
Every municipality that we contacted indicated that it had,no need for
. storage space in Chatfield Reservoir. Our staff realized that this was
an erroneous assumption, but there was nothing we could do about it.
In order to specifically allocate space, we had to,have an executed
contract with the United States for such space. Because of the urgency
of getting the project constructed'as a result of the '65: floods, the
project was therefore constructed without any specific allocation for
municipal, industrial or agricultural storage.

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