FLOOD09682

• County: Statewide
• Community: State of Colorado
• Stream Name: All
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Colorado Flood Control and Drainage Laws Manual
• Date: 8/1/1987
• Prepared For: State of Colorado
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

COLORADO FLOOD CONTROL
AND DRAINAGE lAWS

utility services is intended to be sufficient to
cover operation costs. (31-15-707. -.708).

o Municiplaities may exercise special controls over
their water supplies. watersheds. and water
works. for up to five miles beyond the point from
which water is taken (31-15-707).

o

Municipalities have very
condemnation and entry. and
facilities (31-15-707. -708).

broad
powers

powers of
to construct

o Municipalities also have very broad powers to
construct and operate drains. sewers, and
sewerage systems, and to compel their use, and to
assess their costs against private owners
benefited by such systems (31-15-709).

o Municipalities have broad powers to cleanse or
purify water, including by draining or filling
ponds on private property when necessary to abate
nuisances, and to take other actions to abate or
prevent water pollution, including use of
agreements and bonding capacity (31-15-710).

o Municipalities are authorized to "deepen, widen,
dock, cover. wall, alter, or change the channel
of watercourses" (31-15-711).

o Municipalities, for the purpose of supplying
water, have the power to:

purchase or lease any canal or ditch, with all
t.he rights in the same. and to operate it.
with election approval;

repa ir, improve
and to levy
purposes;

or enlarge any canal or ditch.
and collect taxes for such

"purchase water and water rights in all cases
where condemnation would lie to obtain the
same under section 31-15-708(1)(b)" (see
above) ;

t.o divert waters;

to purchase and hold the lands to
rights are connected, or to
(31-35-101; see also 31-35-210).

which water
sell them;

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