BOARD01670

• Board Meeting Date: 7/28/2003
• Description: CDP Section - Technical Assistance to Covered Entities
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Method
The Office of Water Conservation (OWC) within the Conservation and Drought Planning
Section of the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) provided copies of all available
state agency, municipal, special district and water conservancy district water conservation plans
filed with the CWCB by the various covered entities in accordance with HB 91-1154. All files
were reviewed and pertinent information about the covered entities' plan content was captured
in a database that allowed for summaries and comparisons.

The database was designed to capture and organize information as presented in Table 1. All
files were read and key plan attributes were entered into the database, extracting a combination
of qualitative and quantitative information. Please see Appendix A for the database with all five
tables including Table A-1 with a full set of definitions of terminology used.

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Entity and Contact Information Basic information on entity name, address, contact person,
etc. Results shown in Table A-2.
Entity and Plan Descriptors Basic information on the water provider (type of entity and
use, water delivered, population served, source of water, etc.)
and on the plan (date completed and approved, total length,
etc.). Results shown in Table A-3.
Plan Elements: Background Background data presented on water usage, water system
profiles, planned facilities and forecasting, conservation
goals, etc. Results shown in Table A-4.
Plan Elements: Measures and A list of 15 water conservation measures and programs
Programs recognized as important by planning experts that entities
evaluated for inclusion in water conservation plans. Results
shown in Table A-5.
Plan Elements: Evaluation and Information on how measures were analyzed, how plans
Implementation were to be implemented, whether they were available for
public review, and plans for monitoring and evaluation.
Results shown in Table A-6.

Key findings from the database are presented below through text and summary statistics. A
general review of the state of the files is presented first, with more specific information then
presented for each category listed above.

Content Review
The CWCB records show that after passage of HB 91-1154, the OWC determined that 62 entities
provided over 2,000 acre-feet of water and were thus considered covered entities. At the time of
this review, the CWCB had plans for 58 municipal entities on file. Additionally, eight state
departments have plans on file. Please note that these were not reviewed with the municipal
plans as they differ significantly in format; Appendix B contains information on these plans.

The CWCB currently has a total of 66 approved water conservation plans on file. With few
exceptions, all the plans were received between 1995 and 1997. Given that the governing statute

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