WSP04574

• File Number: 8220.106
• Description: Animas-La Plata
• State: CO
• Basin: San Juan/Dolores
• Water Division: 7
• Date: 12/3/1981
• Title: Agenda Items 7 8 and 10b Staff Response to Board's September Directive
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Board Memo

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STATE OF COLOMDO

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COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
Deparrmem Qf ."I,nur,,1 Resources
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Denver. Colorado tW20l
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November 23, 1981

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SUBJECT: Agenda Items 7,8, and lOb, December 3-4, 1981, Board
Meeting--Staff Response to Board's September Directive

Introduction

At its September meet ing, the Board directed the staff to:

(1) Examine the potential for refoC'muldting and providing
at ledst partial state financing for the West Divide, San "llguel,
and Grand Mesa projects;

(2 )
financing
project;

Review the proposal to provide 100 percent state
for a sCdled-down version of the Fruitland Mesd

(3) Examine the possibility of providing front-end
cost -shdr ing for the Narrows and An imaS-L~lata project s;

(4) Recommend a program to provide funding for the repair
and rehabilitation of projects which have dam safety problems;
and

(5) Review existing state financing mechanisms and the
constraints thereon, particularly insofar as grants are
concerned.

Agendd itmes 7, 8, dnd lOb constitute the staff's initial
response to this directive. In addition, agenda item 7 covers
the proposed projects which have come through the regular
procedures of the construction fund program.

Summary

The staff's initial response to the Board's directive may be
summarized as foilows:

(1) After consulting with the Colorado River Water
Conservation District and the West Divide Water Conservancy
Oistrict about the \Vest Divide project, it was concluded that the

COLOr/ADO WATER CONSERVATION 90ARO, Frederick V. Kroeger, Ch.lrman
Robert A. Jackson. Vice Chairman. Jonn R. Fetcner Steamboat Springs
C.M. Furneaux, Walden. Floyd L. Gatt. Monte Vista . P~trlCk A. Gormley, Grand Juncoon
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