BOARD01648

• Board Meeting Date: 7/20/2004
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Platte River Basin

Annual Operating Plan, Niobrara, Lower Platte and Kansas River Basin: The annual report
summarizing operations during 2003 and outlining operating plans for 2004 was received on May 14.
The document is available for viewing on Reclamation's Great Plains Region web site.

This report discusses operations in the Republican River Basin of Colorado and in particular the
operations of the Annel Unit (Bonny Reservoir) and the Upper Republican Division in Colorado. The
rest of the report discusses various project operations in Nebraska and Kansas. Major issues in the
basin include the continuing drought conditions, well drilling and the Republican River litigation.

Platte River Recovery Implementation Program Draft EIS: Reclamation has extended the public
review and comment period for the DEIS to August 20.

Centennial Satellite Re-use System Project: In March, you approved providing the Centennial Water
and Sanitation District with $50,000 from the Multipurpose Demonstration Grant Fund to initiate a
$400,000 satellite water re-use pilot project.

The project contemplates desiguing, housing, and testing a satellite re-nse system that is designed to
provide irrigation-quality water to key locations (i.e. green spaces).

To date, Centennial has chosen the location (The Links golf course in Highlands Ranch) and is
negotiating a contract with the equipment vendor. Additionally, Centennial has been working with the
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to take care of the health related issues. An
article from the American W ater Works Association (A WW A) concerning this type of project has been
attached.

Longmont llJCD settlement nearly finsli7ed.: ~.l\U of the parties have signed stipulations approving
the entry of a decree except the Northern Colorado Water Conservation District who is finalizing the
terms of their stipulation.

Chatfield Water Users Subcommittee Meetings: A meeting with water users interested in obtaining
storage space in Chatfield Reservoir was held in Lakewood on June 30. Rick McLoud of Centennial
Water and Sanitation District was chosen to chair a series of meeting designed to reach a consensus
among users about how to divide up approximately 20,600 acre-feet of potentially available storage
space, so that an EIS could be completed expeditiously, using the proposal as a component of a
"Preferred Alternative" and the basis of a reservoir operational plan. EIS scoping meetings conducted
on behalf of the Corps by the main study contractor Tetra Tech cannot proceed without an operational
plan at the reservoir.

McLoud began by giving new-comers to the Chatfield process an overview of the project and the
mission of the this "subcommittee."

A total of twenty-eight water users representatives attended the meeting. In an effort to get the word
out and make it as fair a process as possible the CWCB staff reached out to water providers. The
CWCB sent a press release out, posted the announcement on the website and sent out emails to the
project list. However the single most effective means was to alert the Division I water clerk Dee
Buettner. Ms. Buettner, in turn, sent an email ont to all of the South Platte water lawyers.

New interested entities that attended the Water Users Subcommittee kick off meeting were: Littleton,
Arapahoe County, Douglas County, Parker Water and Sanitation District, Ken Caryl West Ranch
Water District, Roxborough Park Metro District, Aurora, Thornton, Castle Pines District.

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