Latest News – Page 4 – Hondius Water Users Project

10/13/16 – Update

October 16, 2016

Hi all, I just wanted to bring you up to date on a couple of matters. As a reminder, at our August 1st meeting, we held an annual meeting of the Hondius Water Users Association and elected 5 directors, and since that time the Directors have met and approved the following officer roles for the …

8/1/16 – Public Meeting Minutes

August 17, 2016

TOWN OF ESTES PARK, COLORADO PUBLIC MEETING
DISCUSSION OF THE PROPOSED HONDIUS WATER PROJECT
AUGUST 1, 2016

Meeting was brought to order at 4:10 PM at the Town of Estes Park, Colorado Town Hall. Those in attendance representing the Hondius Water Users Association are the newly elected Board members of the Association, representing the Town of Estes Park, Colorado, are Mr. Reuben Bergsten and Jeff Boles, representing Larimer County is Mr. Ed Schemm, and representing Landmark Engineering is Mr. Rod Harr. Additional interested individuals were also present and their names are separately attached.

The purpose of this meeting is to present historically the function of the Hondius Water Users Association and the plan to provide an entirely new water delivery system to its users and those from the immediate area who desire to participate in the Project. Additionally a petition is to be presented to ask the Town and County to proceed with a final engineering report for the Project and subsequently to acquire financing potentials to fund the endeavor.

Information for Signing Petition from Public Meeting

August 17, 2016August 4, 2016

Our public meeting on August 1st was a success, with almost all current users of the Hondius line in attendance signing the Petition for the Town to move forward with obtaining financing from the USDA. At the meeting, the engineer went through the preliminary engineering report. The total estimated cost of $3.4 million for the project …

Public Meeting Reminder

July 8, 2016

Hi All, This is a reminder of the information previously sent June 6th. The Town has indicated that they will have a “Petition” for Hondius users to sign at the public meeting on August 1st, which will serve as a vote in favor of the project and the Town needs owner(s) of at least half …

Notice of Public Meeting for Hondius Water Users Group (and Potential Users) Estes Park, Colorado

June 7, 2016

Date: Monday, August 1, 2016 Time: 3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. – Current Hondius system users – Annual Meeting 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. – Public meeting – All interested parties Location: Town of Estes Park Board Room Address: 170 MacGregor Avenue, Estes Park, Colorado Topic: Updated Improvement Plan for the Hondius Water Distribution System …

Update on Hondius Water Project

May 16, 2016

The following message was sent via email to all Hondius water users for which we had an email address. If you did not receive this message via email, please send contact us so that we will have your current email address for future reference. Thanks. Jim From: Jim Redman Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 12:43 …

3/3/16 – Project Committee Meeting Minutes

April 8, 2016

Hondius Water Users Project Committee – 3/21/16 Meeting Minutes

Present: Jim Redman, Don Piepgras, Tim Breiding, Brandy Flanagan, and Bill Rawsky

Previous Meeting Minutes

Approved minutes from January meeting – will be posted on website.

Town Involvement Update

The Larimer County representative contacted Town personnel as a follow-up to Jim’s request for information from the Town sent in December 2015. In response, a conference call was held today with Town personnel, the Larimer County representative, the engineer and Jim. The following matters were discussed:

1/21/16 – Project Committee Meeting Minutes

March 4, 2016

Hondius Water Users Project Committee – 1/21/16 Meeting Minutes

Present: Jim Redman, Tony Burroughs, Bill Rawsky, Beth Coulson.

Previous Meeting Minutes

Approved – will be posted on website.

Town Involvement Update

We reviewed Jim’s December letter sent to the Town requesting the information we need to finalize our cost estimate. No response has been received yet. The Larimer County representative was also planning to contact Town personnel this week for follow-up; however, Jim had not yet heard back on whether this contact had occurred.

12/15/15 – Project Committee Meeting Minutes

January 24, 2016

Hondius Water Users Project Committee – 12/15/15 Meeting Minutes

Present: Jim Redman, Tony Burroughs, Don Piepgras, Bill Rawsky, Beth Coulson, Brandy Flanagan

Also attending were the Larimer County Representative and the Engineer hired to prepare the Preliminary Engineering Study

Previous Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the November 19th meeting were approved and Jim will have them posted to the website.

Town Meeting Update

The Town is taking a much more proactive position with respect to water projects such as ours. There are currently four projects that the Town is working on, including ours and the Park Entrance project, which is also off High Drive. In a meeting on December 13th with the Town Trustees, that Jim also attended, the Town personnel presented their proposal to the Town Trustees, and the Trustees seemed very supportive of the Town’s proposal which focused on the following objective:

11/19/15 – Project Committee Meeting Minutes

December 16, 2015

Hondius Water Users Project Committee – 11/19/15 Meeting Minutes

Present: Jim Redman, Tony Burroughs, Don Piepgras, Bill Rawsky, Beth Coulson

Town Meeting Update

Committee members met with representatives of the Town of Estes Park earlier this month. Meeting was to discuss the Town’s recommendation that the project have a storage tank (as presented in the October 2^nd public meeting), in an effort to determine if the estimated project cost can be reduced. The Town representatives indicated that the Town would be willing to share in some of the costs as they would propose a location for the tank that would benefit more than just those benefited from the Hondius water replacement project. Unfortunately, the representative from the Town who could discuss the Town’s proposed allocation of the costs of the tank between the Town and the Hondius water replacement project was not present.

Our original estimated cost for a pump only system increased from 2.7 million to 3.1 million largely due to the Town’s assessed need for more pump capacity and an additional line if the tank were not included in the system design. The recommended tank and pump system was originally estimated to cost 3.3 million (as presented in the October public meeting) prior to any cost allocation participation by the Town. As a result, the costs of these alternatives are quite similar now, and with participation by the Town in the costs of the tank option, this may actually be the least costly of the alternatives now. Also with the tank system, there would likely be no need for a generator.