SECWCD WCPlan 1997

• Project Type: Water Conservation Plan
• Applicant: Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District
• Project Name: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project
• Title: 1997 Water Conservation Plan
• Water Conservation - Doc Type: Complete Plan

These return flows are important in helping well owners meet their in-state
responsibilities to off-set depletions to surface water supplies. Each year only
a third of available returns are sold. The District, through our Water Activity
Enterprise, will work to increase the use of return flows so that other supplies
can be used for meeting future demands. Schedule: on-going.

6. Water and Storage Needs Assessment Proiect- Objective: Finalize a study
which will accurately document the future water storage and supply
demands of the District's municipal and agricultural constituents and
provide alternatives to meet those demands, including conservation
efforts. The District is currently working with 27 other water users groups
from throughout the District to collectively assess future storage and supply
needs. The Water and Storage Needs Assessment Project will not only project
future demands, but also list a set of alternatives to provide for those demands.
In cooperation with the State of Colorado Office on Water Conservation
engineers conducting the Assessment Study will review existing water
conservation efforts and provide guidance for conservation measures which
might help meet future demands. The Assessment study will also review
storage alternatives including the expansion of existing facilities of the
construction of new storage facilities. Schedule: Assessment Study should be
complete Summer '98.

7. Pueblo Reservoir Dam Enlargement Studv-Objective: Sponsor a study
which will analysis the potential for the enlargement of Pueblo Reservoir
Dam for purposes of allowing for greater municipal storage and the
storage of agricultural water through the Winter Water Storage
Program. The District is presently working with the Bureau of Reclamation
on an MOU for the execution of an enlargement study of Pueblo Reservoir.
The Enlargement Study will provide the District and our water-user
constituents with a detailed engineering review of the technical feasibility and
projected costs of a dam enlargement. An enlarged Pueblo Reservoir would
help municipal users meet their future demands, and provide permanent
storage space for the Winter Water Storage Program. Without additional
storage space in Pueblo Reservoir, Winter Water may be threaten with a spill
or at least early evacuation, which means that the use-period of this valuable
water is restricted or eliminated entirely. The Enlargement Study is certainly
not the final step in the process for enlarging Pueblo Reservoir; however, the
Study will provide the District and the Bureau with the foundation for future
decisions. When the Enlargement Study in complete it will be reviewed along
with the Assessment Study in an effort to determine the best alternative of
combination of alternatives to meet present and future storage needs.
Schedule: Enlargement Study complete July 1998

8. Cottonwood Creek/South Arkansas Exchange Cases-Objective: Seek to
decree exchanges of Project water on Cottonwood Creek, and the