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Water Supply Reserve Account - Grant Application Form <br />Fonn Revised May 2007 <br />Alamosa, Monte Vista and Del Norte. Each of theirs strongly endorses this project for the <br />positive effects it will have in protecting their agrarian taxi base. Letters of support express <br />the advice and input SMR has counted on from many stakeholders as it prepares to conduct <br />the necessarv studies to restore the Santa Maria and Continental Reservoirs to their full <br />functionality and potential (Attachment F). <br />For Applications that include a request for funds from the Stateside Account, describe how the water activity <br />meets the Evaluation Criteria. See Part 3 of Criteria and Guidelines. <br />Promoting Collaboration and Cooperation <br />a. The water activity addresses multiple needs or issues, including consumptive and/or non- <br />consumptive needs, or the needs and issues of multiple interests or multiple basins. <br />This Project addresses multiple needs and issues by addressing and proposing cures to the <br />deficiencies in a complex reservoir-stream-conveyance system. The studies will focus on <br />historic irrigation and consumptive water use practices which have been negatively impacted <br />by a system of dams, spillways, a siphon, and an open ditch, all plagued by decades of leaks <br />and seeps. Not only have these problems caused water losses and inefficient use of irrigation <br />water, but SMR proposes that perhaps previous studies were somewhat narrow in their <br />perspective, as they never tookfrdl account ofavoilable efficiencies, nor did they address <br />multiple opportunities to improve on and to take advantage ol'potential non-consumptive <br />resources. The studies SMR proposes not only seek to cure the leaks and seeps but also to <br />address and overcome many of the limitations and possible adverse effects on the nature and <br />extent o f riparian habitat and fisheries downstream from ContinentalSanta Maria. <br />C'DOW has requested the assistance of,MR, allowing C'DOW to store enough water so that <br />they can better predict and plan for the most beneficial use of water for wildlife, for a <br />productive fishery and,/or improving their ability to sustain and increase riparian habitat. <br />(Sce letter from Rick Basagoitia, Area Wildlife Manager, of CDOW in Attachment F). SMR <br />has agreed to do this. CDOW will also capitali:e on this rehabilitation and enlargement <br />project by improving the irrigation of lands for wildlife nesting, shelter and forage, and also <br />for well augmentation. Additional reservoir storage also enables CDOW to respond to water <br />demands in case of an uncontrollable situation such as a drought. This project bestows great <br />flexibility, in a time of unpredictable precipitation, allowing for the development of new ideas <br />and practices that will ultimately be useful to wildlife as well as to the public, increasing <br />minimal flows in drought years and augmenting habitat in critical winter range lands. <br />b. The number and types of entities represented in the application and the degree to which the <br />activity will promote cooperation and collaboration among traditional consumptive water <br />interests and/or non-consumptive interests, and if applicable, the degree to which the water <br />activity is effective in addressing intrabasin or interbasin needs or issues. <br />This application represents excellent collaboration between SMR, the Department of Water <br />Resources, the (N Forest Service, and the CDOW, with open channels to address multiple <br />7