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<br />Dollars for environmental compliance <br />o <br />? <br /> <br />Funding for EIS on other projects which currently don’t have such funding <br />? <br /> <br />Study: Identification of location, timing, and amount of unappropriated water that <br />remains in the South Platte. <br />? <br /> <br />SWSI identified processes and projects — fi gure out overlap — a roundtable project <br />(i.e. determine how much C - BT is available compared to the amount C - BT <br />allottees are planning on obtaining to meet future demands). <br />? <br /> <br />Feasibility Study/Project? Encourage and help fund ditch companies to seek <br />change of use for their surface water as the beginning of a segue from pure ag to <br />mixed uses <br /> <br />Mountain Areas <br /> <br />1. Jr. on water rights scale; pressure for growth - how to meet needs <br /> <br />a. High quality <br /> <br />b. Most gone <br /> <br />c. How to meet needs for growth <br />Have to provide water for local commun ity growth <br />Most water use in house or community - low consumptive use <br />Losing water historically - ag. needs, priority water law <br />Sr. users downstream, jr. users upstream so block of water cannot be used <br />Return flows - ag. water sold up high, lack of return flow s <br /> <br />2. Wells - fractured granite <br />Return flows from upstream <br />Evapotranspiration - drought impact on flows <br />How to protect citizens with wells as water source <br />Water supplies at specific points non alluvial <br />Ground water tables dropping <br /> <br />3. Water Quality - uranium, radon <br /> <br />4. Jurisdictional/IGA <br />Land use - 1041 powers <br />Imminent domain <br />Inter - jurisdictional issues/problems <br />Determining the greater good <br /> <br />5. Maintaining water quality <br /> <br />6. Developing storage to develop junior rights <br />Awareness of storage efficiency <br /> <br />7. Maintaining in - stream flows <br />RIC D <br />Downstream vs. upstream <br /> Instream flows - temp. standards issues vs. instream standards <br /> <br />8. How to manage minimum flow and provide water for other uses - priority <br />curtailment <br /> <br />9. Curtail issuance of well permits in over - appropriated basins/areas <br /> <br />10. Enforcement of exi sting water laws <br /> <br />SOLUTIONS <br />