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Water Supply Reserve Account -Grant Application Form <br />Form Revised October 2006 <br />3. Please provide an overview of water project or activity to be funded including - type of activity, statement of what the <br />activity is intended to accomplish, the need for the activity, the problems and opportunities to be addressed, <br />expectations of the participants, why the activity is important, the service area or geographic location, and any <br />relevant issues etc. Please include any relevant Tabor issues. Please refer to Part 2 of criteria and guidance <br />document for additional detail on information to include. Attach additional sheets as needed. <br />The proposed project will complete a feasibility assessment and the preliminary design of three small off <br />channel reservoir sites located within the Crystal River watershed. The reservoirs would be cooperatively <br />developed by West Divide and the property owners, and would supply water for agricultural uses, domestic <br />uses, and instream flow uses within the Crystal River watershed (Attachment A). <br />West Divide is seeking $40,000 from the Basin Account for the project. Matching funds totaling $15,000 will <br />be contributed by ?Uest Divide and the Colorado River District. <br />The Crystal River is over-appropriated. Natural water supplies are in-sufficient to satisfy irrigation, <br />residential, and instream flow demands. The lower portion of the river is commonly dry during late summer. <br />Many existing residential water users located in un-incorporated areas do not have a legal water supply. <br />West Divide currently provides augmentation water to about 20 existing water users in the Crystal River <br />watershed, extending from locations near the Town of Carbondale to above the Town of Redstone. This <br />regional augmentation program was adjudicated by the Water Court in Case No. 99CW320 and has <br />historically used water from Ruedi Reservoir to augment the out-of priority depletions of its customers. <br />Augmentation contracts for these contractees were granted prior to 2004, at a time when the Colorado <br />Division of ?Uater Resources determined that the Crystal River watershed could be included within the <br />District's decreed regional augmentation program. The augmentation program allowed individual water users <br />to obtain well permits for residential properties; such permits would otherwise be difficult to secure. <br />In 2004, the Colorado Division of Water Resources administratively determined that the Crystal River portion <br />of the District's regional augmentation program service area could no longer be operated without injury to <br />senior water rights. As a result of this determination, approximately 20 existing water users no longer have a <br />legal water supply. In addition, it is currently very difficult for other rural residents in the area to obtain well <br />permits or a legal water supply. <br />This project will facilitate the construction of one or more small off channel reservoirs on the Sewell <br />Property. The project's primary and cooperative water supply objectives are: <br />1. Develop in-basin augmentation water supplies for approximately 20 existing West Divide <br />contractees who no longer have a legal water supply. <br />2. Provide supplemental late season irrigation water for use on the Sewell Property. <br />3. Develop in-basin augmentation supplies for potential future ?Uest Divide customers, to the <br />extent that water storage may exceed the demands for the above objectives. <br />4. Provide water for instream flow maintenance of the Crystal River. <br />This project is intended to develop multi-purpose water supplies that can be used in a coordinated and <br />cooperative manner to optimize benefits within the Crystal River watershed. <br />4