BOARD02469

• Board Meeting Date: 7/18/2005
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

The state health department gave a water quality report. Thornton was refused a permit
for reserve osmosis by the state health department.

There will not be a meeting in July.

Water Resources Committee of the Colorado Chapter of APW A Meeting: A
meeting of the Water Resources Committee of the Colorado Chaptr of APW A will hold a
meeting on July 22 from 11 :45 to 1 :00 at the Urban Drainage & Flood Control
Conference Room.

A presentation on Watershed Restoration Planning Efforts by the CWCB will be
presented by Brian Hyde. The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) has been
engaged in watershed restoration planning efforts for approximately 10 years. These
efforts began after the heavy runoff season of 1995. In response to requests for help from
local officials in three specific watersheds impacted by the high water, the Colorado
General Assembly provided funding during its 1996 session for planning efforts in the
three watersheds. Since that time other watersheds have been studied.

The issues studied in the different watersheds have reflected the variety of problems and
concerns facing Colorado's watersheds. The presentation will discuss four watershed
planning studies in which the CWCB has been involved or is currently involved.

The four watersheds and the issues or goals associated with them are diverse. The
watersheds (and their unique issues) include Fountain Creek (severe erosion, property
and infrastructure damage, reduction of irrigation capability, and major sedimentation
downstream), Rio Grande (maintenance of channel and floodplain capacity, provision of
flood protection, enhancemetn of riparian habitat, delivery of Rio Grande Interstate
Compact commitments, improvement of irrigation diversions, and improvement of
channel stability), Roaring Fork River (public involvement, public safety, protection of
infrastructure, incorporation of community values, assurance of long-term, cost-effective
river stability, assurance of improvement to the river environment, and development of
implementation and funding mechanisms), and Willow Creek (addressing mining
contamination upstream of Creede, ensuring hydraulic capacity and appropriate
management of debris entering the stream immediately upstream of Creede, rehabilitation
of the flood control flume through Creede, and restoration of Willow Creek through the
mining tailings downstream of Creede).

The presentation will be given by Brian Hyde of the Colorado Water Conservation
Board's Flood Protection Section. Brian has over 20 years of experience with the State of
Colorado in flood issues. In the past several years, he has become very active in river
and watershed restoration projects around the state. In addition to providing a statewide
perspective, Brian will show how issues from these projects relate to similar issues faced
by officials in the metropolitan areas of the Front Range.

If you are interested in attending, please contact Kevin Houck at the Colorado Water
Conservation Board (303-866-4805) by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 20th, for your
reservation and lunch order. Or you can email [e-mail]. I is not
necessary to be an APW A member to attend.

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