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<br />Robert Good - Landowner from Morgan County, owns three wells that were <br />drilled in 1965 <br />The South Platte River basin is sitting on a 13 million acre-foot renewable <br />reservoir that needs to be utilized, The current system cannot manage anything, <br />it just causes more tension between the affected people. The Task Force needs <br />to come up with recommendations that will facilitate the conjunctive use and <br />management of ground water and surface water of the South Platte River basin <br />to maximize beneficial use of this valuable resource, <br /> <br />Larry Frame - Superintendent of the Julesburg Irrigation District <br />He reiterated that the doctrine of prior appropriation would be their choice, <br />A lot of water exited the state this year. There were excess flows and it may not <br />be the proper time and place to replace those depletions above them, but there <br />should be a plan to capture the flows before it leaves the state, <br /> <br />Laurel Stadjuhar - Engineer with Bishop-Brogden Associates, represented <br />South Adams County Water and Sanitation District and the City of Sterling <br />(provided handout <br />http://www.aq.state.co.us/com m issioner/southplatte/SP R%20T ask%20F orce%20 <br />Presentation%20Sterl inq, pdf) <br />Sterling fully augments well depletions; the structures include municipal <br />wells, recharge ponds, wastewater recharge sites, direct flow augmentation <br />rights, storage rights according to their decree; the rights are fully augmented, <br />She discussed winter and summer calls and stated that there is enough free river <br />in the winter so that District 64 wells can get enough augmentation with recharge <br />in the winter, Aggregation is hard to predict in Districts 1 and 2 (i.e" what <br />reservoir will be calling, what reservoir might spill, if all reservoirs might fill), it is <br />much easier to predict aggregation in District 64 since there is only one reservoir, <br />Little flow has left the state during the recent drought. Forgiving past post- <br />pumping depletions or grandfathering wells continues to injure senior water <br />rights. Solutions: increase the augmentation supply; recharge is most cost <br />effective solution; storage; storage and recharge should be for the benefit of al <br />users, not a select few; problem solves itself under the current priority system, <br /> <br />Mike Sayler - President of Bishop-Brogden Associates, water resources <br />engineer, represented the South Adams County Water and Sanitation District <br />(provided handout <br />http://www.ag.state.co.us/com m issioner/southplatte/SP R%20T ask%20F orce%20 <br />Presentation %20SACWSD. pdf) <br />Involved in 64 plans for augmentation out of which 63 have Water Court <br />decrees and are operating pursuant to decrees; have a system in place that has <br />faults but it is a system that works and has worked in the 63 plans, There are <br />three components in the 63 plans: (1) calculate the amount of depletion; (2) <br />evaluate the water supply, the augmentation water and make sure what the yield <br />of that water supply is; (3) look at comparing the augmentation supply to the <br /> <br />- 4 - <br />