A Colorado bill introduced last week would allocate $10.6 million in sports betting revenue from the state’s water plan implementation cash fund to grants intended for the state water plan.
The Senate Bill, introduced Friday by Senators Dylan Roberts, a Democrat, and Cleave Simpson, a Republican, concerns funding of Colorado Water Conservation Board projects. It steers $380,000 to an active satellite monitoring system; $500,000 to floodplain map modernization; $500,000 to the weather modification permitting program; $500,000 to continuation of the watershed restoration program; $150,000 to continue the Colorado Mesonet program; and $1 million to continuation of the weather forecasting partnership project.
Additional allocations include $800,000 for water resources mobile field data collection, $1 million for the reservoir enlargement assessment project, $3 million for the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District’s augmentation efficiency project, and $2 million for the state water plan advancement project.
The appropriations are for Fiscal Year 2023-24, which starts July 1.