(VIRTUAL) Board Meeting | September 16-17, 2020

A meeting of the CWCB will be held on Wednesday, September 16, 2020 commencing at 8:30 AM and continuing through Thursday, September 17, 2020. The meeting will be held virtually.

A Finance Committee Meeting will be held virtually on Tuesday, September 15, 2020, from 1:00pm – 4:30pm

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: https://dwr.state.co.us/Portal/Login/.

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 and noted on this webpage.

The CWCB meeting will be made available through live streaming on GoTo Webinar, although Board workshops are not. To watch and listen to the proceedings, visit the YouTube live links for September 16 and September 17.

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 viola.bralish@state.co.us 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 5 days 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).

Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

8:30 - 8:32	CWCB Call to Order and Pledge of Allegiance
8:32 – 8:35	1. Review and Approve Agenda
8:35 – 8:37	2. Review and Approve July 2020 Board Meeting Minutes
8:37 – 8:40	3. Approve and/or Remove Consent Agenda Items
8:40	Board Meeting Dates in 2020 November 18 & 19 – Virtual Board Meeting Dates in 2021 January 25 & 26 – TBD March 17 & 18 – TBD May 19 & 20 – TBD July 21 & 22 – TBD September 15 & 16 – TBD November 17 & 18 - TBD
8:40 -9:40	4. Directors’ Reports DNR Executive Director CWCB Director IBCC Director Agriculture Commissioner State Engineer Division of Parks and Wildlife Director Water Resource and Power Development Authority
9:40 – 10:10	5. Request for Authorization to Initiate Formal Rulemaking to Revise Instream Flow Rules to Implement HB20-1157        Stream and Lake Protection Section
10:10-10:25	6. Lease of Ruedi Reservoir Water for Instream Flow Use on the Fryingpan River and 15-Mile Reach of the Colorado River (Water Division 5)       Stream and Lake Protection Section
10:25-10:40	Morning Break
10:40-11:00	7. Financial Matters – Construction Fund and Severance Tax Perpetual Base Fund     Finance Section a. Financial Projections and Cash Management b. 2020 Wildfire Impact Loans
11:00-11:30	8. Water Project Loans      Finance Section a. Redlands Water and Power Company – Roller Gate Replacement b. City of Grand Junction – Purdy Mesa Flowline Replacement c. Genesee Water and Sanitation District – Genesee Reservoir No. 1 Enlargement
11:30-11:45	9. Loan Delinquency Action      Finance Section a. Two Rivers Water & Farming Company, and Two Rivers Farms F-2, Inc.
11:45-12:30	Lunch
12:30-2:00	10. Demand Management Feasibility Investigation        Interstate, Federal, and Water Information Section
2:00-2:15	11. Basin Fund MOA Reallocation Request – Dolores Project Pumping Plant Replacement       Interstate, Federal, and Water Information Section
2:15-2:20	12. Attorney General’s Report, Legal Briefing, and Executive Session
2:20-2:35	Break to Transition to Executive Session
2:35-3:35	13. Executive Session a. Lake Powell Pipeline b. Demand Management c. Chatfield Storage Reallocation Project Environmental Pool Negotiations
3:35-3:40	14. Report from Executive Session
3:40	RECESS

Thursday, September 17, 2020

8:30 – 10:00	15. Basin Directors’ Reports North Platte River Basin Director’s Report South Platte River Basin Director’s Report Arkansas River Basin Director’s Report City and County of Denver Director’s Report Rio Grande River Basin Director’s Report Yampa-White River Basin Director’s Report Colorado River (Mainstem) Basin Director’s Report San Juan/San Miguel-Dolores River Basin Director’s Report Gunnison River Basin Director's Report
10:00-10:15	Morning Break
10:15-10:30	16. South Platte River Easement Application – City of Englewood       Watershed and Flood Protection Section
10:30-10:45	17. Status of BIP & Water Plan Update Efforts       Water Supply Planning Section
10:45 – 11:00	18. WSRF Criteria and Guidelines       Water Supply Planning Section
11:00-11:40	19. WSRF Grant Applications       Water Supply Planning Section
	Water Supply Reserve Fund Application Grants at the September 2020 CWCB Board Meeting Agenda Item Basin Applicant Name of Water Activity a. South Platte/Metro Neirbo Hydrogeology South Platte River Salinity Study – Phase 2 b. Arkansas Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District Headgate 199 Lining c. Arkansas Pueblo County Italian and Suburban Lateral Water Improvement Project d. Arkansas Round Mountain Water and Sanitation District Reservoir Feasibility Study & Design e. Gunnison Cimarron Canal and Reservoir Company Fish Creek Reservoir #2 Repair and Conservation Project f. Metro Lookout Mountain Water District Upper Beaver Brook Reservoir SCADA System Project g. Metro Colorado Nonprofit Development Center 10.10.10 Water & Climate Program h. Metro WateReuse Colorado Direct Potable Reuse WQCD Stakeholder Process Facilitation i. North Platte Owl Mountain Partnership Jackson County Water Structure Improvement Project #3 j. Rio Grande Colorado Rio Grande Restoration Foundation Conejos River Partnership Project – Phase 1 k. South Platte Colorado State University Sustaining Plains Aquatic Ecosystems using an Integrated Ecological and Social Approach l. Southwest Fort Lewis College Dolores River Adaptive Management Project m. Southwest Morrison Consolidated Ditch Company Railroad Siphon Replacement Project n. Southwest Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project Innovations in Irrigation To Support Heritage Apple Orchards in SW Colorado o. Southwest Red Mesa Reservoir and Ditch Company Red Mesa Reservoir Project
11:40-11:50	20. Water Project Loan/Grant       Finance Section a. Florida Consolidated Ditch Company – Florida Canal Diversion Replacement
11:50	ADJOURN

 

CWCB Consent Agenda September 16, 2020

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
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 and to protect CWCB’s exclusive authority to hold instream flow water rights in the following water court cases:

1. Case No. 20CW3029 (Water Division 2): Application of The Bar NI Corporation

2. WSRF Grant Amendment

Basin	Applicant/Grantee	Name of Water Activity
Gunnison	Leroux Creek Water Users Association	Leroux Creek Reservoir System, Dam Outlet Rehabilitation

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The CWCB encourages citizens to express their views and provide feedback to the Board on the agenda items. This can be done by sending a Public Comment Request form to Viola.Bralish@state.co.us, or by sending a letter to a Board member or to the Chair of the Board. The Board will appreciate hearing your views when it reaches that agenda item.

Need anything else?

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).