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Board Meeting | September 16-18, 2025

Event Details

A meeting of the CWCB will be held on Tuesday, September 16, 2025 commencing at 3:00 PM and continuing through Thursday, September 18, 2025. The meeting will be held at Fort Lewis College 1000 Rim Dr Durango 81301 and virtually on Zoom.

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 our Notification Portal.

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 item scheduled for the regular agenda may be discussed in executive session if legal questions arise as authorized under § 24-6-402, C.R.S.  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 on our website.

The CWCB’s meetings are made available through live audio/video streaming on YouTube, although Board workshops are not. To listen to the proceedings, find links to either day's meeting on the right sidebar.

The CWCB encourages citizens to express their views and provide feedback to the Board on the agenda items. This can be done by filling out this form, by sending a letter to a Board member or to the Chair of the Board, or by attending the meeting. by sending a letter to a Board member or to the Chair of the Board, or by attending the meeting. If you want to make a public comment during the meeting you must fill out a comment sheet prior to the meeting date and email it to the Board Coordinator. 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 Viola Bralish at 303-866-3441, ext. 3206. All programs, services, and activities of the CWCB are operated in compliance with the Federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

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Meeting Agenda

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

CWCB Call to Order and Pledge of Allegiance - 3:00-3:02 

  1. Review and Approve Agenda - 3:02-3:05

2025 CWCB Board Meeting Dates & Locations
  a. November 19 & 20 – Denver Metro Area

2026 CWCB Board Meeting Dates & Locations
a. January 26 & 27 – Aurora
b. March 18 & 19 – TBD
c. May 20 & 21 – TBD
d. July 15 & 16 – Gunnison Basin
e. September 16 & 17 – Colorado Basin
    Finance Committee, September 15
f. November 18 & 19 – Denver Metro

  1. Review and Approve Board Meeting Minutes - 3:05-3:10
    1.  July 1, 2025 Special Meeting
    2. July 16 & 17, 2025
  2. Approve and/or Remove Consent Agenda Items - 3:10-3:15
  3. Financial Matters – Construction Fund and Severance Tax Perpetual Base Fund - 3:15-3:20
    Finance Section
    1. Financial Projections and Cash Management Report
  4. Water Supply Reserve Fund Grant September 2025 - 3:20-3:25
    Grants Section
    1. Basin – Metro & South Platte
      Applicant – Consolidated Mutual Water Company
      Name of Water Activity – ET Study & Floatovoltaic Design
  5. Water Plan Grants September 2025 - 3:25-5:25
    Grants Section
    1. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – Mesa County
      Project – Orchard Mesa Check Piping – 38 Road Bike and Pedestrian Project
    2. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – American Rivers
      Project – Frozen Assets: Rio Grande Innovative Water Management
    3. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – Center Conservation District
      Project – Southern Colorado Wool Pellet Project
    4. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust
      Project – Rusk Ranch’s Beckwith Easement Project
    5. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – Terrace Irrigation Company
      Project – Tools for Adaptive Storage in the Alamosa River Basin
    6. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – Arkansas Groundwater and Reservoir Association
      Project – West Pueblo Bank Stabilization
    7. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – Colorado Open Lands
      Project – Rio Grande Cooperative Project – Phase 2
    8. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – Trout Unlimited National
      Project – Gunnison Basin RCPP
    9. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – Colorado State University
      Project – Community-Driven Water Investigation in the Yampa Valley
    10. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – Western Slope Conservation Center
      Project – Farmers Ditch Improvement Project
    11. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc. DBA Colorado West Land Trust
      Project – From Risk to Resilience: A New Model for Farm and Water Security in the Gunnison River Basin
    12. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – Colorado State University
      Project – Colorado Open Soil Moisture Project
    13. Category – Conservation & Land Use Planning
      Applicant – City of Loveland
      Project – City of Loveland Water AMI Project
    14. Category – Conservation & Land Use Planning
      Applicant – Larimer County
      Project – Larimer County Groundwater Study
    15. Category – Conservation & Land Use Planning
      Applicant – Eagle County Conservation District
      Project – Beyond Lawn Phase II
    16. Category – Conservation & Land Use Planning
      Applicant – City of Steamboat Springs
      Project – Steamboat Springs Smart Irrigation Central Control System Phase III
    17. Category – Conservation & Land Use Planning
      Applicant – City of Fort Lupton
      Project – Comprehensive Water Strategy Planning
    18. Category – Conservation & Land Use Planning
      Applicant – Sonoran Institute
      Project – Growing Water Smart: Action and Impact Initiative
    19. Category – Engagement & Innovation
      Applicant – Colorado Rio Grande Restoration Foundation
      Project – Rye Resurgence Film & Educational Impact Campaign
    20. Category – Engagement & Innovation
      Applicant – Adams State University
      Project – Water Education and Community Engagement
    21. Category – Engagement & Innovation
      Applicant – Colorado State University
      Project – South Platte Salinity Stakeholder Group Final Phase
    22. Category – Engagement & Innovation
      Applicant – Blue Elements
      Project – Watershed Stewards Program
    23. Category – Water Storage & Supply
      Applicant – Lower Latham Reservoir Company
      Project – Jurgens Reservoir-Ancillary Facility Design & Construction
    24. Category – Water Storage & Supply
      Applicant – Town of De Beque
      Project – Town of De Beque Secondary Raw Water Source Well
    25. Category – Water Storage & Supply
      Applicant – City of Canon City
      Project – Planning John Griffin Park Reservoir
    26. Category – Water Storage & Supply
      Applicant – Eagle River Water and Sanitation District
      Project – Bolts Lake Design Development Progress Drawings
    27. Category – Water Storage & Supply
      Applicant – South Metro Water Supply Authority
      Project – Regional ASR Project - Phase 2
    28. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – RiversEdge West
      Project – White River Riparian Restoration and Community Engagement Initiative
    29. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – Jefferson Conservation District
      Project – Bear Creek Wildfire Ready Action Plan
    30. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – Boulder Watershed Collective
      Project – Boulder Creek Headwaters Resiliency Project
    31. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – Arkansas River Watershed Collaborative
      Project – Lower Arkansas Watershed Planning Initiative
    32. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – Fountain Creek Watershed Flood Control and Greenway District
      Project – Frost Ranch Final Design
    33. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – Larimer County
      Project – River Bluffs Open Space Restoration
    34. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – Fountain Creek Watershed, Inc. d/b/a Pikes Peak Waterways
      Project – Stream Reach Plan - Monument Creek – MVP to ATB
    35. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – Larimer Conservation District
      Project – Collaborative Elkhorn Creek Restoration 
    36. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – Colorado Rio Grande Restoration Foundation
      Project – Rio Grande Bank Stabilization & Revegetation Phase 6
    37. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – Boulder Mushroom
      Project – Biological Soil Moisture Retention
    38. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – Northern Integrated Supply Project Water Activity Enterprise
      Project – Phase I Design: Cache la Poudre River Restoration
    39. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – San Miguel Watershed Coalition
      Project – Reed Chatfield Ditch and Diversion Rehabilitation
    40. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – Onward! A Legacy Foundation DBA Dolores Watersheds Collaborative
      Project – Managing Forests to Conserve Snow and Soil Moisture


5:25 RECESS

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Chairman Melvin Baker or Vice Chairman Marvin Pinnecoose – Southern Ute Indian Tribe and Chairman Manual Heart or Vice Chairman Alston Turtle – Ute Mountain Ute Tribe - 8:30-8:50 

  1. Directors’ Reports - 8:50-9:15
    1. DNR Executive Director
    2. CWCB Director
    3. IBCC Director
    4. Agriculture Commissioner
    5. State Engineer
    6. Division of Parks and Wildlife Director
    7. Water Resource and Power Development Authority
  2. Basin Directors’ Reports - 9:15 – 9:45
    1. North Platte River Basin Director’s Report
    2. South Platte River Basin Director’s Report
    3. Arkansas River Basin Director’s Report
    4. City and County of Denver Director’s Report
    5. Rio Grande River Basin Director’s Report
    6. Yampa-White River Basin Director’s Report
    7. Colorado River (Mainstem) Basin Director’s Report
    8. San Juan/San Miguel-Dolores River Basin Director’s Report
    9. Gunnison River Basin Director’s Report
  3. Attorney General’s Report & Legal Briefing, and Executive Session - 9:45-9:50

MORNING BREAK - 9:50-10:05

  1. Executive Session - 10:05- 10:35
    1. Federal & Interstate Matters related to Shoshone Acquisition
  2. Report from Executive Session - 10:35-10:40
  3.  Instream Flow Appropriations - 10:40-10:55
    Stream and Lake Protection Section
    1. Uncontested Appropriation Update: Vermillion Creek, Water Division 6
    2. Contested Appropriations Update: East Muddy Creek, Water Division 4 and Milk Creek, Water Division 6
  4. Instream Flow Acquisitions - 10:55-11:25
    Stream and Lake Protection Section
    1. Two Proposed 5-Year Water Use Agreements with the Town of Basalt and Basalt Water Conservancy District to Lease Ruedi Reservoir Water During the Winter for Instream Flow Use on the Fryingpan River, Water Division 5. (1st meeting)
    2. Proposed Dedication from the City of Fort Collins of Protected Mitigation Releases from the New Reservoir Capacity of the Halligan Reservoir for Instream Flow Use on the North Fork of the Cache la Poudre River, Water Division 1. (1st meeting)

Public Comment - 11:25-11:35

LUNCH - 11:35-12:20

  1. Shoshone Hearing - 12:20-3:00

AFTERNOON BREAK - 3:00-3:15 

Shoshone Hearing continued - 3:15-6:00 

6:00 RECESS

 

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Shoshone Hearing continued - 8:30-10:00

MORNING BREAK - 10:00-10:15

Shoshone Hearing continued - 10:15-12:00

LUNCH - 12:00-12:45

Shoshone Hearing continued - 12:45-3:00

AFTERNOON BREAK - 3:00-3:15 

Shoshone Hearing continued - 3:15-5:00 

5:00 ADJOURN

 

CWCB Consent Agenda September 16 - 18, 2025

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 during the meeting or at the next meeting, with action taken after discussion of the item. If a member of the CWCB requests further consideration of an item on the Consent Agenda that pertains to a pending or imminent court action, the matter will be withdrawn from the Consent Agenda and may be discussed during executive session of the same meeting, and any action on that item will be taken in public session. 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. Statements of Opposition
    Stream & Lake Protection Section
    Staff recommends the Board ratify CWCB’s filing of the following Statements of Opposition:
    1. Case No. 25CW3027 (Water Division 4): Application of Halo Ranch LLC
    2. Case No. 25CW3096 (Water Division 5): Application of City of Aspen
  2. Water Supply Reserve Fund Grants
    Grants Section
    1. Basin – Metro & South Platte
      Applicant – Colorado Watershed Assembly
      Name of Water Activity – Youth Development, Water Education, and the Colorado Water Plan (Year One)
    2. Basin – Southwest
      Applicant – Morrison Consolidated Ditch Company
      Name of Water Activity – Undershot Replacement Project
    3. Basin – Yampa/White/Green
      Applicant – Bear River Reservoir Company
      Name of Water Activity – Stillwater Reservoir Drain, Collar and Channel Stabilization 
    4. Basin – Yampa/White/Green
      Applicant – B/Land and Cattle, LLC
      Name of Water Activity – John C. Temple Reservoir #1 Rehabilitation
  3. Water Plan Grant Change
    Grants Section
    1. Trout Unlimited - Enhancing River Stewardship and Recreation
  4. Water Plan Grants
    Grants Section
    1. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – Owl Creek Supply & Irrigation Company
      Project – Operational Improvement-Owl Creek Lateral
    2. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – High Desert Conservation District
      Project – Wilson Ditch Piping Project
    3. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – Community Agriculture Alliance, Inc.
      Project – Bear River Automation Phase 2
    4. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – Shavano Conservation District
      Project – Demonstrating Gravity-Powered Micro-Irrigation in Gunnison Basin Agriculture
    5. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – 3 Rocks Ranch LLC
      Project – Canon Heights Intake Rehabilitation
    6. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – Crawford Water Conservancy District
      Project – Smith Fork Siphon and SCADA Project
    7. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – Colorado Rio Grande Restoration Foundation
      Project – Rye Resurgence Project – Phase 2
    8. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant – Colorado State University
      Project – Republican River Basin Discovery Farms
    9. Category – Agriculture
      Applicant –TN Bar Cattle Company
      Project – Sunnyside Ditch Pipeline
    10. Category – Conservation & Land Use Planning
      Applicant – Town of Nunn
      Project – Nunn Master Water Action Plan
    11. Category – Conservation & Land Use Planning
      Applicant – Adams 12 Five Star Schools
      Project – WaterWise Conservation and Resiliency Plan
    12. Category – Conservation & Land Use Planning
      Applicant – Blue River Valley Ranch Lakes Association
      Project – Blue River Valley Ranch Lakes Association Smart Water Meter Installation
    13. Category – Conservation & Land Use Planning
      Applicant – Colorado Nonprofit Development Center
      Project – Scaling Turf Replacement and Youth Climate Adaptation Workforce in Denver
    14. Category – Conservation & Land Use Planning
      Applicant – Town of Superior
      Project – Town of Superior Landscape Code Update
    15. Category – Conservation & Land Use Planning
      Applicant – Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment & Security
      Project – Stormwater Capture and Reuse in Colorado
    16. Category – Conservation & Land Use Planning
      Applicant – Department of Personnel and Administration
      Project – State of Colorado Irrigation Audit Training
    17. Category – Conservation & Land Use Planning
      Applicant – The Regents of the University of Colorado
      Project – Water-Wise Landscaping & Wildfire Resilience
    18. Category – Conservation & Land Use Planning
      Applicant – Denver Dept. of Public Health and Environment
      Project – Advancing the State of Graywater in Colorado
    19. Category – Conservation & Land Use Planning
      Applicant – Town of Telluride
      Project – Stillwell Water Facility Management Plan
    20. Category – Conservation & Land Use Planning
      Applicant – City of Durango
      Project – Water Conservation Plan and Drought Response Plan Updates
    21. Category – Conservation & Land Use Planning
      Applicant – City of Alamosa
      Project – Water Efficiency and Comprehensive Plan Updates
    22. Category – Engagement & Innovation
      Applicant – Rio Grande Headwaters Land Trust
      Project – Rio Grande Basin Water Education Mural Project
    23. Category – Engagement & Innovation
      Applicant – Confluence Center of Colorado, Inc.
      Project – Confluence Center Atrium Exhibit
    24. Category – Engagement & Innovation
      Applicant – Ditch and Reservoir Company Alliance
      Project – DARCA Capacity and Education Building
    25. Category – Engagement & Innovation
      Applicant – Big Thompson Watershed Coalition
      Project – Education & Outreach Program
    26. Category – Engagement & Innovation
      Applicant – The Freshwater Trust
      Project – Innovations to Scale Colorado EQIP Impact
    27. Category – Engagement & Innovation
      Applicant – Colorado State University
      Project – Water Quality Sound Project
    28. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – Pathway to the Rockies Council, BSA
      Project – Camp Alexander South Platte River Restoration
    29. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – Bent Conservation District
      Project – Supporting Nature’s Engineers: Beaver Dam Analogs for Watershed Restoration
    30. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – Chama Peak Land Alliance
      Project – San Juan – Chama Watershed Health Project
    31. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – Ouray Ice Park, Inc.
      Project – Our Water Our Future
    32. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – Trout Unlimited - National
      Project – Enhancing Instream Habitat and Aiding Wildfire Recovery and Resiliency in the Lower North Inlet Watershed and Grand Lake
    33. Category – Watershed Health & Recreation
      Applicant – Confluence Colorado
      Project – Fishable and Swimmable South Platte River
  5. CWCB Guide Revisions
    Water Supply Planning Section

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