John W. Hickenlooper
Governor
Mike King
DNR Executive Director
James Eklund
CWCB Director
May 20 - 21, 2015 Board Meeting Agenda
A meeting of the CWCB will be held on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 commencing at 8:00 AM and continuing through
Thursday, May 21, 2015. This meeting will be held in Sterling, CO at Northeastern 18, 17408 CO-14, Sterling, CO
80751.
The CWCB posts notice 30 days in advance of each regularly scheduled meeting. Notices for special meetings are
posted on the website typically within five business days and not less than 24 hours of such a meeting. Notices of
regular and special meetings may also be received by email. To receive notices by email please visit:
http://cwcb.state.co.us/Pages/CWCBIBCCInsider.aspx.
Although dates and times are indicated in this notice and in the following agenda, the CWCB may address and take
action on noticed items in any order. Any known changes to the agenda will be announced at the beginning of the
meeting. This notice, any late notice(s) of additional items, and briefing memos prepared for the CWCB will be
posted at 1313 Sherman Street, Suite 721, Denver, CO 80203, and on our website at www.cwcb.state.co.us.
The CWCB’s meetings are made available through live audio streaming, although Board workshops are not. To
listen to the proceedings, click the “Listen to the meeting LIVE!” link on the CWCB website homepage. The link
will be posted just prior to the start of the meeting. Listeners must have a program on their computer or mobile
device that handles streaming media (such as Windows Media Player, RealPlayer or similar) in order to hear the
audio broadcast.
PowerPoint presentations are also being made available to the public. To watch presentations that accompany
agenda items, click the “Watch Presentations” link on the CWCB website homepage. You will encounter a few
dialogue boxes: 1) click Run for the See-and-Share loader, 2) click Run, to run the software, and 3) enter your
name to join the conference and click ok.
The CWCB encourages citizens to express their views and provide feedback to the Board on the agenda items. This
can be done by sending an email to [email protected], by sending a letter to a Board member or to the
Chair of the Board, or by attending the meeting. If you attend a meeting, simply fill out a comment sheet and
give it to the Board Coordinator at the recording station. The Board will appreciate hearing your views when it
reaches that agenda item. If you have any questions, need special accommodations as a result of a disability, or
require further information on any CWCB activity, please contact Mara MacKillop at 303-866-3441, ext. 3242. All
programs, services, and activities of the CWCB are operated in compliance with the Federal Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA).
Interstate Compact Compliance • Watershed Protection • Flood Planning & Mitigation • Stream & Lake Protection
Water Project Loans & Grants • Water Modeling • Conservation & Drought Planning • Water Supply Planning
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
8:00 – 8:02
CWCB Call to Order and Pledge of Allegiance
8:02 – 8:05
1. Review and Approve Agenda
8:05 – 8:07
2. Review and Approve March 18 -19, 2015
Board Meeting Minutes
8:07 – 8:10
3. Approve and/or Remove Consent Agenda Items
8:10 – 8:15
4. Proposed Board Meeting
a. January 25 & 26
b. March 16 & 17
c. May 18 & 19
d. July 13 & 14
e. September 14 & 15
f. November 16 & 17
8:15 – 8:17
5. Future Board Meeting Dates in 2015
a. July 15 & 16
Ignacio
b. September 16 & 17 Montrose
c. November 18 & 19 TBD
8:17 – 9:15
6.
9:15 – 10:00
7. Colorado’s Water Plan Update
Water Supply & Planning Section
10:00 – 10:15
BREAK
10:15 – 12:00
8. Basin Implementation Plan Presentations
a. 10:15 – 10:50 - South Platte/Metro: Joe Frank & Mark Koleber
b. 10:50 – 11:25 - Rio Grande: Heather Dutton
c. 11:25 – 12:00 - Gunnison: Frank Kugel & Greg Johnson
Dates in 2016
Denver Tech Center
Arkansas Basin
Alamosa
Steamboat
Colorado Basin
TBD
Directors’ Reports
a. DNR Executive Director
b. IBCC Director
c. Agriculture Commissioner
d. CWCB Director
e. State Engineer
f. Division of Parks and Wildlife Director
g. Water Resource and Power Development Authority
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12:00 – 1:00
LUNCH
1:00 – 3:45
8. Continued Basin Implementation Plans
d. 1:00 – 1:10 - North Platte: Greg Johnson
e. 1:10 – 1:45 - Southwest: Carrie Lile & Ann Oliver
f. 1:45 – 2:20 - Arkansas: Jim Broderick
g. 2:20 – 2:55 - Colorado: Karl Hanlon
h. 2:55 – 3:30 - Yampa/White: Mary Brown
8B. Basin Roundtable Path Forward Discussion
Water Supply & Planning Section
3:45 – 4:00
9. Colorado Foundation for Water Education
2015-2016 Scope of Work
Water Supply & Planning Section
4:00 – 4:45
10. WSRA Grants
WSRA Applications for Consideration at the CWCB May 2015 Board Meeting
Basin
Applicant
Name of Water Activity
Colorado
Grand Valley Water Users
Grand Valley Water Users Association Water
a.
Association
Management Plan Update
Basalt Water Conservancy
Roaring Fork Watershed - Missouri Heights
b. Colorado
District
Groundwater Monitoring Program Phase IIA
Marcot Park Ditch &
Engineering Review of Marcot Dam & Outlet
c. Gunnison
Reservoir Co.
Structure
North
Colorado Division of Parks
Mallon Ditch Extension Bypass Structure
d.
Platte
and Wildlife
Kerber Creek Restoration Project – Middle Parcel
e. Rio Grande Trout Unlimited
Conejos River System Water
Conejos Groundwater Monitoring and Analysis
f. Rio Grande
Users Association
Upper Dolores CAMP (Coldwater-Fisheries
g. Southwest Trout Unlimited
Adaptive Management Plan)
Town of Mountain Village 2015 Waterline
h. Southwest Town of Mountain Village
Extension Project
4:45 – 5:00
11. ATM Application
ATM Applications for Consideration at the CWCB May 2015 Board Meeting
Lower Arkansas Valley Water
Conservancy District
5:00
Rotational Fallowing – Leasing Catlin Canal Pilot Project
Implementation and Operations Program in the Arkansas River
Basin
RECESS
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Thursday, May 21, 2015
8:00 – 9:00
12. Basin Directors’ Report
a. Colorado River (Mainstem) Basin Director’s Report
b. San Juan/San Miguel-Dolores River Basin Director’s Report
c. Gunnison River Basin Director’s Report
d. North Platte River Basin Director’s Report
e. South Platte River Basin Director’s Report
f. Arkansas River Basin Director’s Report
g. City and County of Denver Director’s Report
h. Rio Grande River Basin Director’s Report
i. Yampa-White River Basin Director’s Report
9:00 – 9:10
13. Financial Matters - Construction Fund and Severance Tax
Perpetual Base Fund
Finance Section
a. Projections and Cash Management Report
9:10 – 10:15
14. Water Project Loans
Finance Section
a. Uncompahgre Valley Water Users Association – Drop 5
Hydroelectric Project
b. Lower Poudre Augmentation Company – Cornish Water Rights
Purchase
c. Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District - Water
Rights Purchase
d. Plum Valley Heights Subdistrict of the Roxborough Water and
Sanitation District – Raw Water Supply Project
10:15 – 10:30
BREAK
10:30 – 10:45
15. Uncontested 2015 Instream Flow and Natural Lake Level
Appropriations
Stream & Lake Protection Section
10:45 – 11:00
16. 2014 and 2015 Contested Instream Flow Appropriations
Stream & Lake Protection Section
11:00 – 11:15
17. Proposed Acquisition of Contractual Interest in Water on the
15 Mile Reach of the Colorado River, Water Division 5
Stream & Lake Protection & Interstate and Federal Sections
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11:15 – 11:25
18. Request for Authorization to Proceed to Trial in Case No. 111CW265 (Application of the City of Fort Collins)
Stream & Lake Protection Section
11:25 – 11:35
19. Attorney General’s Report, Legal Briefing,
and Executive Session
11:35 – 12:35
20. Executive Session
a. Case No. 1-11CW265: Application of the City of Fort Collins
b. Bear Creek Lake
c. Colorado River Issues
d. Rio Grande Interstate Litigation
e. Animas-La Plata Litigation
12:35 – 1:35
LUNCH
1:35 – 2:00
21. Wild and Scenic Rivers Issues
Stream and Lake Protection & Interstate and Federal Sections
a. Updates
b. Annual review of the fund
2:00 – 2:15
22. Litigation Account
Interstate, Federal, & Water Information Section
a. Annual Report to the General Assembly
b. Requests for authorizations
2:15 – 2:40
23. Report on South Platte High Groundwater Issues
Interstate, Federal, & Water Information Section
2:40 – 2:55
24. Report on Non-Native subcommittee work for the Upper
Colorado River Recovery Program
Interstate, Federal, & Water Information Section
2:55 – 3:15
25. Colorado River System Conservation Agreement Update and
Approval as a state approved conservation program
Interstate, Federal, & Water Information Section
3:15 – 3:20
26. Report from Executive Session
3:20
ADJOURN
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CWCB Consent Agenda May 20-21, 2015
Matters may be placed on the Consent Agenda when the recommended action follows
established policy or precedent, there has been a negotiated settlement, or the matter is
uncontested and non-controversial. Staff provides memos to CWCB members explaining the
matters on the Consent Agenda. Matters on the Consent Agenda are noticed for hearing in the
same manner as other agenda items. If a member of the CWCB requests further consideration
of an item on the Consent Agenda, the item will be withdrawn from the Consent Agenda and
discussed at the end of the meeting or at the next meeting. The Consent Agenda may be
voted on without reading or discussing individual items. Any CWCB member may request
clarification about any matter on the Consent Agenda.
1. This consent agenda item has been removed.
2. Deferral of Consideration of Request to Inundate
Stream & Lake Protection Section
– The Board will be asked to ratify the Director's approval to defer consideration of a
request to inundate two of the Board’s instream flow water rights on North Fork Cache
la Poudre River in Water Division 1.
a. Case No. 1-13CW3185: Application of the City of Fort Collins
3. Statements of Opposition
Stream & Lake Protection Section
- The Board will be asked to ratify Statements of Opposition that have been filed by
staff to protect instream flow and natural lake level water rights in the following
water court cases:
a. Case No. 1-15CW3021: Application of the City of Brighton
b. Case No. 5-15CW3000: Application of the Town of Silverthorne
4. New Prequalification Loans
Finance Section
a. Orchard Ranch Ditch Company – Ditch Piping Project
5. Statement of Opposition
Interstate, Federal, and Water Information Section
– The Board will be asked to ratify a Statement of Opposition that was filed by staff to
protect Colorado’s ability to promote maximum utilization of the waters of the State for the
following Recreational In-Channel Diversion (RICD) case:
a. Case No. 1-15CW3025: Application to Make Absolute and for a Finding of Reasonable
Diligence by the City of Golden
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