Metro - Parker W&S CSU Joint Project Rural Urban Farm Model_Application

• Basin Roundtable: Metro
• Applicant: Parker Water & Sanitation District/CSU
• Description: Joint Project on Rural/Urban Farm Model
• Account Source: Basin
• Board Meeting Date: 9/19/2007
• Contract/PO #: 150413
• WSRA - Doc Type: Grant Application

Water Supply Reserve Account – Grant Application Form
Form Revised October 2006
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Water Availability and Sustainability – this information is needed to assess the viability and effectiveness
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of the water project or activity. Please provide a description of each water supply source to be utiliz ed
for , or the water body to be affected by, the water activity. For water supply sources being utilized,

describe its location, yield, extent of development, and water right status . For water bodies being

affected, describe its location, extent of devel opment, and the expected effect of the water activity on the
water body, in either case, the analysis should take into consideration a reasonable range of hydrologic

variation. Attach additional sheets as needed.

Generally , the water supply sourc e for this project is the South Platte River, using

decreed senior rights on the river that have historically been used for irrigation of farms in
Logan County. PWSD has water rights in the Iliff and Platte Valley Canal , the Powell and
Blair Ditch, and the Harmony #2 Ditch, as well as storage and irrigation rights in Prewitt

Reservoir. The Iliff and Platte Valley Canal has an appropriation date of October 1, 1883

for 150 cubic feet per second (cfs), the Powell and Blair Ditch has an appropriation date of
Fe bruary 19, 1895 for 40 cfs, and the Harmony #2 Ditc h has an appropriation date of May

3, 1997 for 50 cfs. All of these rights were adjudicated for irrigation use. PWSD also has

10 shares in the Morgan - Prewitt Mutual Ditch and Reservoir Company that allows

approximately 211 acre - feet of storage in Prewitt, with a storage right of May 25, 1910.
This right includes consumptive use yield (14.4 ac - ft/share) , which allows PWSD to assign

this yield to its wells for augmentation. The locations of these ditches and their headgate

locations on the South Platte River are shown on the attached figure. Supplemental water
supplies to the PWSD farms in Logan County are provided through South Platte River

alluvial wells which are allowed to operate under adjudicated augment ation plans that

replace delayed out - of - priority depletions to the South Platte River. There will be no new

depletions to the South Platte River as a result of this project.

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If you have not specifically and fully addressed the Evaluation Criteria found in Part 3 of the criteria

and guidance doc ument please provide additional detail here. Attach additional sheet(s) if needed.

PWSD is submit ting this application for consi deration of funding by the South

Platte Roundtable at its regularly - scheduled meeting on May 8, 2007. PWSD believes that

this project meets the funding evaluation criteria because (a) it is promoting collaboration

and cooperation between municipal and agricultural entities to produce a “win - win”
situation relative to providing adequate water supplies for both sectors, while main taining

viable rural and urban economies, (b) it will facilitate project implementation by providing

the data to support a change of use in Water Court and providing the means for farmers to
operate under a new paradigm that is beneficial to farming, (c) i t meets the SWSI water

management goals of reducing dependence on non - renewable ground water, promoting
efficient water use, and making new water available for municipal use, and (d) it helps to
sustain agriculture and agricultural economies, both of which are of statewide interest.

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