BOARD01993

• Board Meeting Date: 11/15/1984
• Description: Agenda, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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$636/acrefoot. In turn, the requested amounts of space would be
subcontracted to the entities listed in Table 2 for the $636/acre-foot
figure. In addition, a first right of refusal would be included in each
subcontract whereby each entity is entitled to purchase space, not desired
by requesting entities, at the original purchase price of $636/acre-foot.
The purpose of this provision is so that no entity sells requested space
for a profit. A subsequent seQond right of refusal, at the original
purchase price of $636/acre-foot, ",'ould be extended to the Department of
Natural Resources of the State of Colorado.

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TABLE 4

Allocation of Purchase Costs for Space in
Bear Creek Lake

Name

Cost

Central Colorado Water Conservancy District
Mount Carbon Water & Sanitation District
Town of Morrison
City of Lakewood
Indian Hills Water District
Genesee Water & Sanitation DistriQt
Evergreen Metropolitan Water & Sanitation
District

$1,272,000
$ 381,600
$ 127,200
$ 318,000
$ lS,900
$ lS9,000

$ S08,800

TOTAL

$2,782,SOO

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Allocation of Space to the State
of Colorado

If additional excess capacity in Bear Creek Lake remains, it should be
granted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the Department of Natural
Resources at no cost. This space should then be utilized for river
management purposes to impound water that would be released in specific
quantities and periods to keep the "call" off the South Platte River. This
would vastly improve the status of water rights of municipalities,
industries, and irrigators throughout the South Platte Valley.

If the best interests of the State of Colorado are met by acquiring only a
portion of the remaining excess space, then a portion should be sold to the
Ground Water Appropriators of the South Platte, Inc. (G.A.s.p.l in Ft.
Morgan or to the South Platte Basin Water Coalition located in Greeley for
the $636/acre-foot. Regardless of which three entities would acquire the
space, it should be used to meet senior calls on the South Platte through
river management.

MANAGEMENT OF BEAR CREEK LAKE

Management of Bear Creek Lake should be by an entity with water storage in
the reservoir, a financial interest in the reservoir, and by the entity

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