BOARD02184

• Board Meeting Date: 9/13/2004
• Description: Flood Section - 2002 Chatfield Drought Declaration Reconsideration
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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-ALE NO.3'Y ooc. '*0. k

ery, "ildlife and recre~tionul purposes under tne operating

.t~rmS ana conditions agreed upon between the united States

Army Corps of Engineers and th~ State, acting tnrough th~

Colorado Water Conservation Board; and

~HEREAS, the Unit~d States has provided the aforesaid.

storage space in Chatfield Reservoir to the State and has

uutnorizcd the State to Control and manage the said storage

s~ace and. make such use thereof as it deems advisable not

inconsistent with the terms and conditions heretofore or

hereafter imDosed by the United. States, and in consideration

for th~ United St~tes providing such spaCe in. Chatfield

~~servo_irt the St~te nas agre~d to provide at its own expense

the wat~r necessary ~o maint~in sajd pefmanent pool, but

has Deen un~Dle to obtain reliaulo water supplies therefor;"

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and

~HEREASt after several years of investigation" by the

St~te it appears that the only feasible and e~onomical means

of mit"intaini.ny "said permanent pool is by permitting the c'on-

lract~r to use that space h~retofo~ described for the regu-

lation ana re-re9ulation of water flows occurring at Chatfielo

Doni; and

~NE~EAS, tne Contracto~ is desirous of Obtaining stor-

aye sj,Jace in C'hatfield Keservoir for use ~n -regulating ana

r~-regulatin9 flows resulting from operation of its FOOthills

~1cJter Tredtment Project and related facil ities under provi-

sions of federal rights-of-~ay so as to prevent waste of

w~tcr aporopriated for municipal useSj dnd

~HEREAS, the use of the storage capacity herein granted

will result in si~njficdnt ~enefits to the State through

tIle maintenance of a fJCrmdnent pool f and to the Contractor

50 oS to prevent waste of water appropriatea for municipal

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purpos~s while complying wi"lh rigI1t-of-way conditions ~mposed

bt ogencies of the Unit~d States to maint~in streamflow5 in

toe Lower South Platte River Canyon between Strontia Dam

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