BOARD02085

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

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ROUTT COUNTY

Water Conservation Board (CWCB)_and Division of Water Resonrces (DWR)
Peter Evans, CWCB Director Bob Plaska, Division Engineer
1313 Sherman St, Room 721 1120 S, Lincoln Ave" Suite IB
Denver, CO 80203 P.O, Box 773450
[phone] Steamboat Springs, CO 80477
[phone]

Routt County is located in the Yampa (95%) and Colorado Mainstream (5%) 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, Major water projects in this area include Yamcolo,
Stagecoach, Catamount and Steamboat Lake,

In this county there are five loans from the CWCB Construction Fund, which were completed for a total of
$11,750,000.

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

Proiect Name
Hayden Water Supply System
Yamcolo Dam
Stagecoach Reservoir Dam
Stagecoach Reservoir Purchase
Smith Ditch Diversion Structure & Pipeline

Amount Loaned
$ 300,000
1,500,000
7,900,000
2,000,000
50,000

A $)9,000 municipal grant was awarded through the Office of Water Conservation to the City of Steamboat Springs
for a high altitude xeriscape demonstration project The project was never completed,

The Instream Flow Water Rights appropriated exclusively in this county tota1481 miles and 119 stream segments.
Staff is currently working on 1998 Instream Flow Appropriations in this county.

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.

The Colorado Water Conservation Board acquired two water rights from Mrs, Nancy Hoelzen who donated her
interests in two irrigation ditches on Hot Spring Creek. With this water, the CWCB plans to extend its instream
flow right on Hot Spring Creek from the Routt National Forest boundary to the confluence with the Elk River. The
CWCB also acquired through donation the right to use up to 200 acre-feet of water stored in Fish Creek Reservoir
from the City of Steamboat Springs to supplement its Fish Creek instream flow water rights,

This county has four Designated Floodplain Studies affecting 22 stream reaches. They also participate in the
National Flood Insurance Program, A major flood event occurred on the Elk River in June 1997, and a stream bank
stabilization and watershed hydrology study have been drafted. The county received funding for the Elk River
stabilization project Flood insurance studies are in progress in Routt County and Steamboat Springs,

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