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The documents have been categorized into 14 different areas of interest listed below.  

  • Alt Ag Water Transfer Grants:  This class contains documents related to the alternative agricultural water transfer grants such as applications, interim/progress reports, and scopes of work for approved projects.
  • Basin Roundtables:  This class contains agendas, minutes, presentations and other related basin roundtable meeting materials.
  • Board Meetings:  This class contains the memos and accompanying attachments that are distributed at each CWCB Board meeting.
  • COs Decision Support System:  This class contains modeling datasets, straighline diagrams, studies, basin reports, software and other information related to Colorado's Decision Support Systems.
  • Drought Mitigation:  This class contains documents relating to the CWCB's involvement with drought, drought research projects and the Water Availability Task Force.
  • Floodplain Documents:  This class contains the documents for all types of CWCB flood-related information and projects.
  • Grants:  This class contains scopes of work, contracts/purchase orders, final deliverables and other grant-related documents for the following types of grants: non-reimbursables, Severance tax, FEMA, instream flow aquisitions, litigation, tamarisk and weather modification.  **Note:  grant documents for alternative agricultural water transfers, water supply reserve account, water efficiency and watershed protection are housed in other classes within this list of classes.
  • IBCC Process Program Material:  This class contains newsletters, legislation, policies and other documents that support the IBCC process.
  • Instream Flow Acquisitions:  This class contains the final court decrees and contracts for all the instream flow water rights acquired by the CWCB by purchase, lease, donation or other contractual agreement on streams in the state.
  • Instream Flow Appropriations:  This class contains the final court decrees of all the instream flow water rights appropriated by the CWCB on streams in the state.
  • Interbasin Compact Committee:  This class contains by-laws, agendas, minutes and other related IBCC meeting materials.
  • Legislation:  This class contains most of the state legislative acts or statutes affecting the CWCB.  These include Senate and House bills, and some Federal Acts.
  • Loan Projects:  This class contains the documents of all the CWCB financed projects such as loans and grants (non-reimbursable projects) as well as leases, easements, MOUs (memoranda of understanding) and miscellaneous material.
  • Natural Lake Level (NLL) Acquisitions:  This class contains the final court decrees and contracts for all the natural lake level water rights acquired by the CWCB by purchase, lease, donation or other contractual agreement on lakes in the state.
  • Natural Lake Level (NLL) Appropriations:  This class contains the final court decrees of all the natural lake level water rights appropriated by the CWCB on lakes in the state.
  • Publications:  This class contains most of the publications authored by or for the CWCB.  These include Fact Sheets, Annual Reports, general technical documents, and water resource publications.  Reports relating to specific projects or topics may be in other indexes if they are not found here.
  • Statements of Opposition:  This class contains the final court decrees and/or stipulations entered in water court cases where the CWCB filed a Statement of Opposition to protect instream flow or natural lake level water rights.
  • SWSI:  This class contains public meeting information, outreach efforts and publications, including the SWSI report.
  • SWSI II Technical Roundtables:  This class contains technical roundtable meeting materials, white papers and publications, including the SWSI II report.
  • Water Conservation:  This class contains the documents of all water conservation plans filed with the OWCDP, including water demonstration grants, drought matters and general OWC.
  • Water Supply Protection:  This class contains the documents relating to Colorado’s water supply, including projects such as reservoirs and water storage, compacts, endangered species issues as they relate to water, Decision Support Systems, federal legislation, and other topics concerning Colorado’s water.
  • Water Supply Reserve Account (WSRA) Grant and Loan Information:  This class contains documents related to the WSRA grants such as applications, water activity summary sheets, basin roundtable approval letters, and scopes of work for approved projects.
  • Watershed Protection:  This class contains information relating to stream protection and restoration projects.
  • Weather Modification:  This class contains the documents for all types of CWCB weather modification permit information and projects.