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<br />Harold Evans: this is not very much money for large project; <br />The Act specifically says to do a needs assessment to look for unappropriated <br />water; how will we meet that gap and how will we find projects to find wet water; <br /> <br />Boulder County Application: (review application package that has been sent <br />out) <br />Mark Williams with Boulder County: <br />USGS and School of Mines: Rural Water Use and emerging contaminants <br />Deliverables: quantify consumptive use of OWS; definitive information on <br />emerging contaminants from OWS; provide recommendations on management <br />strategies for OWS in high risk geographic areas; a comprehensive and <br />meaningful multidisciplinary study; published results <br /> <br />Study how the contaminants may move through the aquifers; increased fee <br />funding with permitting would allow for deliverables; <br />Transferable: this will be found in similar jurisdictions although study is in <br />Boulder <br /> <br />This proposal is different: <br />Links emerging contaminants to hydrology risk to the resource; looks at <br />consumptive use; looks at four distinct sites in two separate hydrologic regimes <br />(mountains and plains); provides recommended solutions; <br /> <br />Funding supports: significant amount of drilling and hydrology work; <br />professional for study design and analysis; two sampling rounds at four sites. <br />10-15 percent matching from USGS lab <br />Would be sampling five wells and septic systems at each site; <br /> <br />Basin would receive: staff in assistance in planning, implementation, and public <br />outreach; GIS based risk ranking and their real world application; USGS labor; <br />senior chemist <br /> <br />Unapproved septic systems: 53 percent in mts; 47 percent in plains <br /> <br />In summary: <br />Activity provides for a sustained usable water resource; evaluates consumptive <br />use from flows; evaluates impacts to supply wells and shallow aquifers from <br />human activities; provides means to minimize those impacts; address public <br />awareness of impacts from contaminants identify high risk geographic areas; <br />provides a focused study in those higher risk areas; provides the means for the <br />public awareness <br /> <br />See full application that was sent out by email per requirements. <br /> <br />Bob Streeter: Please summarize evaluation criteria especially re: consumptive use <br /> <br />13 <br />