BOARD02214

• Board Meeting Date: 1/22/2003
• Description: Flood Section - Chatfield Downstream Channel Improvement Project Easement Request
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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STATE OF COLORADO

Colorado Water Conservation Board

Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: (303) 866,3441
FAX: [phone]
www.cwcb.state.co.us

MEMORANDUM

Bill Owens
Governor

TO:

Colorado W ater Cons~~n Board Members

Larry Lang, P.E., drrfe~ ~Iood Protection Section

Rod Kuharich
eWeB Director

Greg E. Walcher
Executive Director

FROM:

DATE:

January 13, 2003

Dan McAuliffe
Deputy Director

SUBJECT:

Agenda Item 15 - January 22-23, 2003 Board Meeting -_
Chatfield Downstream Channel Improvement Project Easement Request

Introduction

At the November 6-7, 1995 Board Meeting, approval was given by the Board to grant requests for
easements in CWCB's right-of-way along the Chatfield Downstream Channel Improvement Project
(project) on a case-by-case basis. In addition, at the November 21, 2001 Board Meeting, the Board
adopted the "Easement Guidelines for the Chatfield Downstream Channel Improvement Project" dated
November 2001. The Staff has received an inquiry from the City of Englewood, Colorado regarding a
Koran/Koran Proposal, Littleton, Colorado on behalf of Ron Koch and an easement request from Xcel
Energy, Littleton, Colorado.

Discussion

Ron Koch Inquirv/Situation - This inquiry is from the City of Englewood regarding a redevelopment
proposal of the Ron Koch site and does not appear to impact the CWCB land. However, the CWCB is
an interested party because of the potential impacts to the CWCB land, At the present, the CWCB
situation is that the existing operation is trespassing on to the CWCB lands which include the storage of
materials and vehicles on the CWCB ROWand their entrance roadway is on the CWCB lands. The
existing Koch operation is trespassing on CWCB lands. The City of Englewood, Colorado has much
concern regarding the existing operation and will not consider a Redevelopment Proposal until the
existing operation is cleaned up and a good neighbor environment created. In short, the Ron Koch
landscape operation is a MESS!

XceI Energv Request - This request is for the relocation of an ingress and egress roadway serving their
electrical transmission line.

The Xcel Energy application is incomplete at this date and the applicant recognizes that they cannot
have an acceptable easement application to staffby the CWCB January 2003 Meeting.

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