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Water Supply Reserve Account -Grant Application Form <br />Form Revised May 2007 <br />mechanism under which the project will operate, and DU who will provide biological and engineering <br />technical assistance, surveying, permitting and design, construction management and outreach to other <br />project partners. <br />The project entails the construction of a 2-acre wetland impoundment that will recharge the alluvial aquifer <br />of the SPR, which runs a couple miles distant from the project site. Water delivered from the Farmers <br />Independent Ditch Company will flow into the impoundment created by the application of low-level contour <br />levees placed across the property to optimize water depths for wetland recharge and waterfowl foraging. <br />The credits produced by these retimed flows will be credited to the CCWCD's Plan for Augmentation. <br />CCWCD and the WCSD will enter into an agreement to cover any of WCSD's diversions such that school <br />grounds may continue to be irrigated. <br />All parties to the partnership are interested in utilizing this project as a model project for further <br />development of wetland recharge projects associated with the SPR. DU plans to utilize this project as the <br />platform for amulti-million dollar expansion of wetland recharge projects into the middle stretches of the <br />South Platte River in Colorado. Our hope is that this project will demonstrate the effectiveness of <br />partnerships in achieving both water and wetland habitat conservation, will induce neighboring farmers, <br />municipalities and other water users to enter into similar projects and, finally, assist DU in cultivating grant <br />dollars from agencies and foundations unfamiliar with the complexities of securing water for wetland <br />development in Colorado's water-short basins. <br />Also, the project site is situated to provide an excellent venue for conservation education and outreach. We <br />will target two main audiences with our outreach efforts related to this project. First, we will focus on water <br />users and policymakers. This project will demonstrate the effectiveness, broad appeal, and multiple <br />benefits of wetland recharge projects to those in need of alternative solutions to water supply needs and to <br />the decision makers whose actions greatly influence the availability of those solutions. Second, we will <br />target the students of the school district to provide them with an in depth education about water supply <br />strategies in the 21~ century and wildlife habitat conservation in Colorado. In this sense, this project serves <br />not only the immediate needs of the School District, but it also serves the larger community, the SPR basin, <br />and the State of Colorado by creating an informed constituency. <br />4. If the Contracting Entity is different then the Applicant (Project Sponsor or Owner) please describe the <br />Contracting Entity here. NOT APPLICABLE. <br />4 <br />