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Water Supply Reserve Account - Grant Application Form Foim Re-ised AIai• 2007 Future growth plans are underway to provide water to the Town of Buena Vista through an integrated water management plan. Water related facilities owned or used: Table 3 lists the District's water supply sources. Table 3. WATER SUPPLY SOURCES (from north to south) Name Elevation Location Acre Feet Use Twin Lakes 9,200 Arkansas River 158 Shares Municipal, Industrial, Near Lake / Chaffee County border Irrigation, Domestic Frying Pan N.A. Arkansas River 450 Municipal, Domestic Project water transfer Rainbow 9,230 Cottonwood Creek, 62 Storage Lake (minor tributary) west of Buena Vista Cottonwood 9,560 Cottonwood Creek 116 Storage Lake (minor tributary) west of Buena Vista Thompson N A Cottonwood Creek 23 45 Municipal, Industrial, Ditch (minor tributary) west of Buena Vista . Domestic North Fork 11,400 headwaters of the North Fork of the 595 Storage Reservoir South Arkansas River Boss Lake 11,870 headwaters of the 221 Irrigation, Storage Reservoir South Arkansas River O'Haver 9,200 headwaters of Poncha Creek above 180 Storage Lake South Arkansas River White Ditch N A South Arkansas River 06 26 Municipal, Industrial, . . west of Poncha Springs . Domestic Cameron 8,200 South Arkansas River 3.72 c.f.s. Irrigation Ditch west of Poncha Springs DeWeese 7,700 Grape Creek 60 Storage Reservoir (principal tributary), Custer County Funding/revenue sources: In addition to providing municipal storage via allocations of space to two municipalities in Chaffee County, the District is involved in making available replacement water marketed through its various augmentation plans for out of priority depletions. The municipalities are The City of Salida and the Town of Poncha Springs. The City of Salida storage allotment in District high mountain reservoirs is utilized to exchange water from its native water rights on the South Arkansas and provide a backup water supply to service its approximately 5,500 residents. The Town of Poncha Springs operates several wells to provide water to its 580 plus residents, and cannot provide augmentation water for well depletions without access to District storage vessels. The District operates through its Water Activity Enterprise four types of water augmentation plans that provide domestic, industrial and irrigation replacement water supplies to augment wells, ponds and direct diversions structures. The replacement water market is a rapidly expanding area that utilizes fully consumable surface water to replace depletions from groundwater use via unique surface water management strategies. This marketed water is released into streams impacted by depletions from groundwater use. Domestic and commercial augmentation water demand is currently 18% of the District's water use and serves approximately 1,700 participants, many who are residents in unincorporated Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District (UAWCD) Page 5 of 52