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<br />STATE OF COLORADO <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br /> <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 721 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone: (303) 866-3441 <br />FAX: (303) 866-4474 <br />www.cwcb.state.co.us <br /> <br /> <br />Bill Owens <br />Governor <br /> <br />Greg E. Walcher <br />Executive Director <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br />(Updated December 4,2002) <br /> <br />Rod Kuharich <br />CWCB Director <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board Members <br /> <br />Dan McAuliffe <br />Deputy Director <br /> <br />FROM: John Van Sciver, P.E. <br />Mike Serlet, P.E., Chief <br />Water Supply Planning and Finance Section. <br /> <br />DATE: November 14, 2002 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Agenda Item 20e., November 25-26, 2002 Board Meeting <br />Groundwater Management Subdistrict of the <br />Central Colorado Water Conservancy District <br /> <br />------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br /> <br />Introduction <br />The Groundwater Management Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy <br />District (GMS-CCWCD) is applying for a loan in amount of $20,000,000 to purchase senior <br />water rights and construct gravel pit storage and water recharge facilities to increase <br />augmentation water supplies for its members. The estimated total cost is $22,000,000. <br />Please see the attached project summary and map. <br /> <br />Backaround <br />The GMS-CCWCD, located in Adams, Weld, and Morgan Counties, has a service area of <br />300 square miles, and Is located wholly within the boundaries of the Central Colorado <br />Water Conservancy District. The Subdistrict has 650 members with 966 junior wells, and <br />has operated an augmentation plan for these members since 1973. No new members <br />have been accepted since 1997 unless they provide their own augmentation water. <br /> <br />On December 17, 2001, the Colorado Supreme Court issued a judgment in Case 00- <br />SA-211 that changed the manner of operation of substitute supply plans in Colorado. <br />The case centered on a dispute in the Arkansas Valley between an irrigator and an <br />upstream homeowners association, called "Empire Lodge". In 1996 Empire Lodge filed <br />suit in Water Court claiming that the downstream irrigators (the "Moyers"), had illegally <br />