BOARD02085

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

BENT COUNTY

Water Conservation Board (CWCB) and Division of Water Resources (DWR)
Peter Evans, eWeB Director Steve Witte, Division Engineer
1313 Sherman St., Room 721 310 E. Abriendo, Suite B
Denver, CO 80203 Pueblo, CO 81004
[phone] [phone]

Bent County is located in the Arkansas River Basin and is affected by the Arkansas River Compact and John Martin
Reservoir operations. Activities of interest include the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District's Future Water
Storage and Needs Assessment Study, a $75,000 CWCB grant to the Southeastern Colorado Water and Storage Needs
Assessmeot Enterprise to assess future water and storage needs within the Southeastern District ( Phase I completed in
December, 1998, Phase II is in progress), The county will be affected by the outcome of the Kansas vs Colorado Compact
litigation.

One project has been completed using a Construction Fund loan in the amount of $229,431,

Water Project Construction Loan Program - Completed Projects by CWCB through FY 1999
Proiect Name Amount Loaned
Purgatorie River Siphon Rehabilitation $ 229,431

A $36,480 agricultural grant was awarded through the Office of Water Conservation to Bent Soil Conservation District for a
surge technology irrigation demonstration project This prQject has been completed,

Instream Flow Water Rights have been appropriated that protect 5,1 miles (one stream segment),

This county has one Designated Floodplain Study affecting three stream reaches, The county participates in the National
Flood Insurance Program. The Arkansas River Multi-Objective Channel Restoration Study has been completed, and the
Flood Mitigation Assistance Program has provided a grant for a re-location project. The county received a Presidential
Disaster Declaration on 1999 for severe flood damage,

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