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WATER BOARD
Special Meeting
June 3, 1977 - 4:00 P.M.
Present: Raymond Anderson
Bernard Cain, Jr.
Karl E. Carson
Henry Caulfield
Norman Evans
Harvey Johnson
Everett Richardson
James Waltz
Robert L. Brunton
Absent: Ward Fischer*
Ronald Fulkrod*
Staff members present: Hilgenberg and Krempel
Also City Attorney March
Vice Chairman Evans called the meeting to order.
Mr. Roger E. Krempel, Director of Water Utilities, had distributed to the Water
Board members copies of a memo relative to the Joe Wright Reservoir bids showing
the three bids that were received compared to the latest engineer's estimate,
and copies of the tabulation of the engineer's estimate on which, written in hand,
was the low bid of the Green Construction Company. He stated that there were 5
or 6 major contractors interested, with these three submitting the bids. He
was pleased that the low bid was below the estimate. He further stated that
there was basically no addendum that had to go out with the plans or the specifi-
cations. The Board discussed the unit items, the amount bid on each item, and
the total amount bid.
Mr. Krempel stated that the Green Construction Company is a very reputable company
out of Des Moines, Iowa with a major Denver office. McCall -Ellingson & Morrill
checked their financial statement, and they are tops all the way around. He stated
that the City was very fortunate to get the Green Construction Company. They
just finished a highway job at Chambers Lake and know the area well. They are
primarily highway contractors but they have done some dam work.
Board member Richardson made a motion, seconded by Henry Caulfield, to recommend
to the Council the acceptance of the Green Construction bid of $5,225,366 for
the Joe Wright Reservoir project. The Chair put the motion, which was unanimously
adopted.
Mr. Krempel stated, "It certainly has been a pleasure for me to come in in the
middle of the project and have it go as smoothly as well. I think there is an
awful lot of credit that needs to be given to the Water Board, to the present
administration, and past people who have worked on this project. I think this
is a milestone for the City of Fort Collins, because I know of no greater need
to the Utility at this time than to get this raw water storage."
flow and ponds cannot be deleterious from the point of view of ponds for fishing
purposes. I think it is very important that the City undertake a study of this
matter. This is going to be park area of the City eventually, and we ought to
have satisfaction about that situation before we proceed. I just wanted to clarify
my views on the temporary classification "C" in this respect."
The Board discussed the possibility of getting a research grant of some kind to
determine flows between these ponds and the river.
Vice Chairman Evans stated that he did not have any idea of what the Water Quality
Control Commission was going to do with regard to the reclassification of the
Poudre River. He stated that one of the Commission members was dedicated to
avoiding a Class "C" classification anywhere because one Class "C" may open the
gates for a hundred thousand of them, and there are literally thousands of
cases like this. He further stated that EPA has indicated informally that
they will not take any action against violations of discharge permits, but that
is not a guarantee for Fort Collins.
Board member Caulfield stated, "There is a good deal of land that the Flatiron
Company is going to be giving eventually to the City. There is already the
first installment of that. This land contains ponds, a number of ponds that are
off the river various distances, but not very far. This ultimately should be
a very large City park for the City in the Year 2000. There is a report made
by a CSU Professor, students, and others at the University that says that these
ponds are capable of being a trout fishery. They have underground sources of
water to keep the ponds cool enough in the summer time for trout and also for
whatever reasons best known to them has adequate food for trout to live. So
assuming that that is all right, I am taking that for granted without challenge,
the question for us is under the regime that we have in mind for the Poudre below
the Sewage Treatment Plant No. 1 and the timing of low flows and high flows
and everything else, what connection hydrologically is there between those ponds
and the river that could possibly cause, if any, the contamination of those
ponds that would be sufficient to not enable those ponds to be fruitful as
recreation fishing ponds. I think that is a practical question and should be
studied. I should think you would want to organize it in such a way that there
would be no challenge to the integrity of the study. That is to say we should
have a bona fide hydrologist, we should have a fishery people being involved
so that there is no question about how it is being done from that point of view,
the question of how much ammonia is contamination and how much isn't. All of
these are technical questions, that ought to be gone into in a very forthright
way, open way, and well documented way. I would expect that this is not going
to cause a great problem, but I think we ought to document carefully."
City Manager Brunton stated, "This will be my last Water Board meeting. I have
enjoyed working with you. I think Fort Collins is better because of the Water
Board. ABC is thinking of doing an article, 'How come many cities are rationing
water and Fort Collins isn't." It is back on the East Coast being evaluated
whether they want to run a program on this, but I just said, 'We have a good
Water Board."
Vice Chairman Evans stated, "We ought to respond to you in a better way than I
am prepared to do, but I can only say from the heart, and I know that I speak
for all of us, that it has been both a joy and an education to work with you,
to have you to work with, and we all wish you just the greatest of good things
in your new place."
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