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Water Resources Advisory Board · regular
7-21-25 Water Resources Advisory Board Meeting
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AI-read · unreviewed29 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personThe biggest one right now is that diversion project in Cu South. That is unacceptable. 94 million dollars.
Our 1st topic tonight is to look back again and to kind of finalize our discussion on the Cip.
what's being asked of the Board is a recommendation to council on the 2026 cip.
and then looking ahead at how we'll finance upcoming capital projects
We also spent time reviewing our financial strategies specifically how we manage our reserve funds.
a 5% increase in our stormwater and flood fund for next year
We are recommending an 8% increase in our water fund, a 6% increase in our wastewater fund
that the wastewater and stormwater rates would go up 27, and 28
We do have a bump in our capital spending after this year.
we have a 35 million dollar project for the for Barker dam
Historically, we bonded with water and sewer together, but that's not to say that we couldn't bond separately.
that's really why we're binding differently in the storm flood utility versus the water and wastewater utility
that's 1 of those things that does go into our really favorable triple a bond rate
I hope that when we go through the process with the rate study, there's an opportunity to consider both
The Albion dam 2022, 26. Project Barker dam work 2024 to 2032
increases of 8% water utility, 6% wastewater utility and 5% of storm water and flood management utility
for the remaining projects in the water, wastewater and stormwater and flood management utilities
The comprehensive plan informs master plans for all 3 utilities, water, wastewater, and storm and flood.
Vision outlined by the comprehensive plan, be carefully studied through the development of an integrated water supply plan
We do assume climate change will invoke enough water stress to result in moderate and major decreases
crops on a farm and our urban landscapes both need more water to survive and thrive as the temperature increases
A big, a big component of it is we're using so their climate, global climate models that the science community is using.
and they did a study in 2,019 that evaluated climate change, scenarios less on temperature and precipitation
the primary non municipal uses that would be reduced include agricultural leasing and water left in the stream for downstream users
we may need to consider additional water supplies to maintain or improve our current risk profile
and then there may be some situations where we have a water supply gap
In Colorado river we have multi year supply is better able to do it.
So the Comp plan is, it's updated every 10 years. But it takes a couple of years to update.
one of our 2025 work plan items is the combined evaluation of our water budgets, and along with our rate study