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Eagle Scout project cleared to remove debris and restore bank on Boreas No. 2 Ditch
Summary
The board approved an agreement allowing Boy Scout Troop 188 to remove vegetation and debris and perform hand-tool bank repairs on the Boreas No. 2 Ditch under the city's easement on U.S. Forest Service land.
The Englewood Water & Sewer Board approved an agreement permitting an Eagle Scout project to perform maintenance on the Boreas Number 2 Ditch, a trans-basin diversion that the city manages on forest land near Boreas Pass.
Chris Edelstein, the city's Environmental Compliance Coordinator for Utilities, described the project that Troop 188 will execute: volunteers will remove woody vegetation and debris (including stumps), perform hand-tool bank repairs (shovels, rakes, clippers), and restore material the scouts had previously pushed downslope in places where spring runoff causes erosion. No power equipment will be used. The work is planned for mid-June (earliest) once access and seasonal conditions allow; the scout who proposed the project, Donovan Ramey of Troop 188, had earlier reached out but is currently abroad.
Edelstein said the ditch runs near the Continental Divide about six miles southeast of Breckenridge at slightly over 10,000 feet elevation and is Englewood's only physical trans-basin diversion, generating about 150 acre-feet per year for the city. The project is on U.S. Forest Service land but inside the city's easement; staff said no state permits are required for the described maintenance because the work will maintain existing infrastructure within the easement. Boy Scouts will supply tools and the Boy Scouts of America will cover volunteer liability insurance.
The board approved the agreement by voice vote.
