BOARD02085

• Board Meeting Date: 3/20/2000
• Description: Division of Wildlife 1999 Annual Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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A municipal grant in the amount of$5,000 has been issned through the Office of Water Conservation to Cannon
City for an xeriscape demonstration project. This project has been completed. The county has also participated in
creating a water conservation plan.

Instream Flow Water Rights appropriated exclusively in this county total 137 miles and 22 stream segments. Staff
is currently working on 1998 Instream Flow Appropriations in this County,

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Note: in reference to lnstream Flow Water Rights, information listed above may not be inclusive of all water rights
in a given county since a stream segment may start in one county and end in another.

This county has eight Designated Floodplain Studies affecting 20 stream reaches, They also participate in the
National Flood Insurance Program and are part of the NFIP Community Rating System, A mitigation project will be
done to construct several detention dams to reduce flood vulnerability in the North Ninth Street drainage area, A
Flood Study on Fourmile Creek is completed, The Corps is performing new hydrology studies on Oak Creek and
Coal Creek in Florence,

GARFIELD COUNTY

Water Conservation Board (CWeB) and Division of Water Resources (DWR)
Peter Evans, CWCB Director Orlyn Bell, Division Engineer
1313 Sherman St, Room 721 50633 U,S, Highway 6 & 24
Denver, CO 80203 P,O, Box 396
[phone] Glenwood Springs, CO 81602
[phone]

Garfield County is located in the Colorado Mainstream and White River Basins and is affected by the Colorado
and Upper Colorado River Compacts, The county is covered by the Colorado River Decision Support System
(CRDSS), the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin,
and the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program,

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In this county there are six loans from the CWCB Construction Fund which have been completed for a total of
$1,366,01\,

Water Project Construction Loan Program - Completed Projects by CWCB through FY 1999

Proiect Name
Silt Water Supply System
Rifle Water Supply System
Parachute Water Supply System
Kings Row Home Owners Association Underground
Town of Silt Irrigation System
Chipperfield Lane Ditch Rehabilitation

Amount Loaned
$ 300,000
300,000
250,000
75,000
400,000
41,011

Two municipal grants have been awarded through the Office of Water Conservation, The fIrst grant in the amount
of$15,915 to the town of Silt for water conservation packets forresidents; and, the second grant in the amount of
$15,235 to the town of Carbondale for residential plumbing retrofIts, Both projects have been completed, The
county has also participated in creating a water conservation plan,

Instream Flow Water Rights appropriated exclusively in this county total 162 miles and 27 stream segments, 1997
Instream Flow Water Right Applications have been med with the water court on the Cattle Creek (enlargement) -
Coulter Creek to Park Ditch headgate, and the CWCB staff is currently working on 1998 lnstream Flow
Appropriations,

Note: In reference to Instream Flow Water Rights, information listed above may not be inclusive of all water rights
in a given county since a stream segment may start in one county and end in another.
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