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Home My WebLink About20001504.tiff � 1 (i \S191/4 O R n'Fotairturomoo JUN 1 3 20011 �. WELD COU(vT! oisrreicr ATTORNEY'S June 6, 2000 Mr. Lee D. Morrison Assistant County Attorney Weld County Attorney's Office 915 Tenth Street Greeley, CO 80632 Dear Mr. Morrison: Please find enclosed the Boxelder Sanitation District Amended Statement of Purpose in response to your letter of May 26, 2000 and in accordance with C.R.S. Section 32-1- 207. I expect this Statement of Purpose will satisfy the requirements of C.R.S. 32-1-207. 32-1-204.5 and 32-1-208. I believe this to be required by Weld County since the District has a "material modification" of its service plan caused by a property located in Weld County being petitioned into the District. The District has previously existed and operated solely within Larimer County and has not had any petitioned lands from Weld County. Also enclosed is the District's position paper on wastewater service area definition, vis-a- vis the Clean Water Act 208 plans, which governs the District responses to property owners requesting service. Please advise that these documents do satisfy your request Sinc ly, W. Dean Smith General Manager Enclosures - Statement of Purpose Position Paper on Service Area Definition Weld County Petitioned Land Description C:1PSM Docs1FORMS\District\Stmt of Purpose.doc 2000-1504 iC 1r) P.O. Box 1518 - 2217 Airway Ave. #3 • Fort Collins, Colorado 80522 dehUMAI a aw to - Phone (303) 498-0604 • Fax (303) 498-0701 /q-acop vet; sac, ,9F<, �) O • (STRICT STATEMENT OF PURPOSE June, 2000 This Statement of Purpose has been prepared and is being filed pursuant to C.R.S. Section 32-1-208. Boxelder Sanitation District, hereinafter referred to as "the District," is a special district and a political subdivision of the State of Colorado established under Title 32 of the Colorado Revised Statutes. I. Purpose for which the District was organized. The District was organized for the purpose of providing wastewater service for domestic and other private and public purposes. A petition to create the District was filed after an election was held within the proposed district on March 23, 1965, with resulting votes of 14 for and 0 against. The Order and Decree of the District Court for the 8th Judicial District creating the District was entered on March 31, 1965. The District was organized for the purpose of providing services and facilities both within and without the boundaries of the District and to establish fees, rates, tolls, penalties, or charges for such services and facilities. II. Services and Facilities to be Provided by the District. The District's office is located at 2217 Airway Ave, #3, Fort Collins. At present, the District provides wastewater services to approximately 7,106 people. Wastewater is collected through District collection system that is nearly 35 miles long. In addition, the District operates two wastewater pumping stations to serve specific locations within the collection system. The District owns and operates a wastewater treatment plant located at 2705 S. W. Frontage Road, Fort Collins, Colorado. The treatment facilities consist of a control building, a four-cell aerated lagoon, chlorination and dechlorination facilities. The control building houses controls, flow monitoring equipment, lift pumps, and a backup power supply generator. The design capacity of the treatment plant is 2.34 million gallons per day for hydraulic flow and 3,200 pounds BOD5 per day organic loading. The average household is thought to contribute about 250 gallons per day and 0.63 pounds of BOD5 per day. A laboratory for analyzing influent and effluent wastewater P.O. Box 1518 - 2217 Airway Ave. #3 • Fort Collins, Colorado 80522 Phone(970) 498-0604 • Fax (970) 498-0701 characteristics and those of the receiving stream is located in an office building at the plant site. An alarm system located at the District's plant alerts the plant operator and other District personnel of any problems or malfunctions. III. Areas served or to be Served by the District At present, the lands petitioned into the District encompass approximately 16 square miles located east and north of the City of Fort Collins, Colorado. Said lands lie in Larimer and Weld Counties. Presently, the lands petitioned into the District consist of a wide variety of property types including mobile home parks, motels, restaurants, office buildings, residential developments, industrials and agricultural properties. Due to its proximity to the City of Fort Collins, Towns of Timnath and Wellington and their designated urban growth areas, the District is experiencing growth. The District has received applications for several new commercial and residential developments. It is anticipated that in the long term (greater than fifty year planning horizon) the District will eventually be required to serve additional lands within the Poudre, Cooper Slough, and Boxelder drainages, for a total area of approximately 45,000 acres, the majority of which is presently undeveloped and consists primarily of agricultural property. The long-term planning area for Boxelder Sanitation District, as identified in Larimer and Weld Counties, is shown in Exhibit A. The District provides services to/intends to provide service not only to properties already petitioned into the District, but also areas contiguous to the District and possibly outlying areas. Provision of such service will be either by inclusion of said property within the District or by providing such services through a written agreement. Boxelder Sanitation District provides wastewater services and facilities and intends to continue to provide the same in the manner and to the extent authorized by Colorado law as may be amended from time to time by the District. Furthermore, those areas which are served by the District are those areas authorized by Colorado law as may be amended from time to time. I lull6IIIII15/19Ilu1 :38111111 uki IIIkamo III,IIII 2732869 11/16/1999 11:38A JA Suki Tsukomoto 2 of 2 R 10.00 D 0.00 Weld County CO EXHIBIT 'A' PROPERTY DESCRIPTION A PARCEL OF LAND IN THE NORTH HALF AND SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 30, TOWNSHIP 7 NORTH,RANGE 67 WEST OF THE 6TH.PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN,COUNTY OF WELD,STATE OF COLORADO BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT TIIE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SECTION 30 AND CONSIDERING THE NORTHERLY LINE OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 30 TO BEAR N 89°13'47"W WITH ALL BEARINGS CONTAINED HEREIN RELATIVE THERETO;THENCE S 46°53'03""E A DISTANCE OF 41.10 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. "I'lIENCE N 86°13'47"E ALONG A LINE 30 FEET SOUTHERLY OF AND PARALLEL W 1'I'II SAID NORTHERLY LINE OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER A DISTANCE OF 2353.36 FEET; THENCE N 86°13'50"E ALONG A LINE 30 FEET SOUTHERLY OF AND PARALLEL WITH 'I'IIE NORTHERLY LINE OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 30 A DISTANCE OF 1204.52 FEET; THENCE S 55°56'13"E A DISTANCE OF 1460.90 FEET; THENCE S 00°13'10"W ALONG THE EASTERLY LINE OF SAID NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 30 A DISTANCE OF 1299.50 FEET; THENCE ALONG THE BOUNDARY OF THAT PARCEL DESCRIBED IN BOOK 1126 AT PAGE 1666 IN THE RECORDS OF THE WELD COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER THE FOLLOWING SIXTEEN(I6)COURSES: I.N 87°35'46"W A DISTANCE OF 88.19 FEET; 2.N 86°29'46"W A DISTANCE OF 376.00 FEET; 3.N 24°59'46"W A DISTANCE OF 185.50 FEET; 4.N 31°43'14"E A DISTANCE OF 284.00 FEET; 5.N 57°41'46"W A DISTANCE OF 142.60 FEET; 6.S 53°49'14"W A DISTANCE OF 917.30 FEET; 7.S 83°45'14"W A DISTANCE OF 478.50 FEET; 8.N 23°43'14"E A DISTANCE OF 441.20 FEET; 9.N 37°51'14"B A DISTANCE OF 208.00 FEET; 10.N 69°08'46"W A DISTANCE OF 78.80 FEET; II.S 75°23'14"W A DISTANCE OF 327.20 FEET; 12.S 54°11'14"W A DISTANCE OF 230.60 FEET; 13. S 31°50'I4"W A DISTANCE OF 156.60 FEET; 14.S 39°14'I4"W A DISTANCE OF 513.80 FEET; 15.8 48°40'14"W A DISTANCE OF 293.80 FEET; 16.S 54°41'14"W A DISTANCE OF 274.70 FEET; THENCE ALONG THE BOUNDARY OF THAT PARCEL DESCRIBED IN BOOK 826 AT PAGE 398 IN SAID RECORDS OF THE WELD COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER THE FOLLOWING FOURTEEN(14)COURSES: I.S 30°05'46"E A DISTANCE OF 116.00 FEET; 2.S 25°22'14"W A DISTANCE OF 84.90 FEET; 3.S 04°48'14"W A DISTANCE OF 82.70 FEET; 4.S 75°44'14"W A DISTANCE OF 159.20 FEET; 5.S 69°25'14"W A DISTANCE OF 116.50 FEET; 6.S 44°01'14"W A DISTANCE OF 115.00 FEET; 7.S 28°59'14"W A DISTANCE OF 101.80 FEET; 8.S 09°51'14"W A DISTANCE OF 242.30 FEE1'; 9.S 36°28'14"W A DISTANCE OF 129.00 FEET; 10.S 68°13'14"W A DISTANCE OF 641.10 FEET; II.S 81°37'14"W A DISTANCE OF 96.70 FEET; 12.N 70°33'46"W A DISTANCE OF 173.00 FEET; 13.S 82°47'14"W A DISTANCE OF 130.50 FEET; 14.N 60°03'46"W A DISTANCE OF 487.51 FEET; THENCE N 00°00'07"E ALONG THE EASTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF WELD COUNTY ROAD 901 BEING ALSO A LINE 30 FEET EASTERLY OF AND PARALLEL WITH THE WESTERLY LINE OF THE SAID SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 30 A DISTANCE OF 675.82 FEET; THENCE CONTINUING N 00°00'07"E ALONG SAID EASTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE BEING ALSO A LINE 30 FEET EASTERLY OF AND PARALLEL WITH THE WESTERLY LINE OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 30 A DISTANCE OF 2615.39 FEET TO 'THE POINT OF BEGINNING. SAID PARCEL CONTAINS 269.030 ACRES(11,719,028 SQ.FT.),MORE OR LESS. Vet; n uA 0 ( Jr6 ' t nusI - ICT POSITION PAPER ON SERVICE AREA DEFINITION FOR WASTEWATER RECLAMATION SERVICE PROVIDERS The question of service area definition, or the delineation of present day geographical limits of areas to be serviced by Publicly Owned Treatment Works (P.O.T.W.) in the future, is the focus of this paper. The appropriate answer to the service area definition question for a given service provider is not appropriately a matter of political concern. Rather, it is properly decided unilaterally by each operating entity, but in concert with the proximate users, or future users of its service system. The service area in not an arbitrary map-making function. It is essentially determined by the P.O.T.W. in consideration of several controlling elements as follows: 1. Plant Capacity and Design: Consideration must be given to the hydraulic and organic loading capacity of the treatment works to accept the flows from the combined existing and future service area users, and to some extent the hydraulic design of the collector system to be expanded or utilized. 2. Legal and Contractual Liabilities of the P.O.T.W.: Consideration must be given to existing long term commitments to serve petitioned lands, or in-place contractual commitments to serve areas. These elements will control the definition of service areas, both existing and future. Bond covenants also impact and contribute to the definition of service area by each service provider. 3. Financial and Business Management Obligations: Consideration must be given to the fact that P.O.T.W.'s are mandated for perpetual operational existence, and the concurrent assumed least costly service to the user base. These two most important elements direct that 100% utilization of capital investments is an ongoing obligation of P.O.T.W. management. This is best accomplished by planned, incremental expansion of the service area to match utilization with overall plant design. P.O. Box 1518 - 2217 Airway Ave. #3 • Fort Collins, Colorado 80522 Phone (970)498-0604 • Fax (970)498-0701 Service Area Definition Page 2 4. User/Applicant Petitioning and Choice: Where two comparable service providers are in proximity to an applicant property, and the property owner wishes to obtain service, the extension of the service area of either service provider should be the choice of the applicant and most probably would be decided based on the relative cost of such service, including collector line extensions. Since there exists within state and federal law a multitude of regulatory directives which must be followed by P.O.T.W,'s, these will, of course, be the dominant control elements when a goveming entity considers its service area definition. If the four elements listed above are accepted as incumbent upon all service providers (especially the least cost mandate) then there should be no need to arbitrate service area boundaries when they approach contiguity. Rather, if the policy of least cost public service prevails, then well engineered, joint-use facilities, financed through interagency agreements, should be utilized to serve properties on or near contiguous agency boundaries; and, thus, duplication of near equal size ;facilities will be avoided. Boxeld itation istrict W. Dean Smith General Manager SSD Decuments'Decumerts'Ser,ice area_;er'rt:cr -cc Hello