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Bert Weaver: Drought, mitigating, planning seems to be needed to be <br />added-having just come out of the Governor's Drought Conference. <br />Nicole: One of the staff was at that conference, makes sense. <br />Jim Yahn: We will rely on process with Bert and Lisa as funneling <br />comments to Nicole. <br />Consideration of WSRA Application: <br />Ralf Topper: Lost Creek Groundwater Management District- <br />Aquifer Storage and Recovery-Feasibility Study. <br />Tom Stodder, Chair of Groundwater District: John Courlis- <br />Board Member of District. <br />Application was distributed by IBC in a timely manner. See <br />application emailed from IBC on <br />Management District controls the majority- of this groundwater <br />boundaiy. <br />S1306-193-this roundtable formed committee to put input for <br />this study. This was the number 1 underground aquifer site in <br />legislative site. <br />That study looked at 10 criteria: water quality-, species habitats, <br />implementation considerations including implementation costs. <br />Estimate from the study 1.2 million and 157 thousand acft of <br />storage in Upper Lost Creek and Lower Lost Creek respectively. <br />Water quality not an issue. Thus, source water quality and <br />ambient water quality are considerations... here not a big <br />concern. <br />Unmet demands: see huge demand in Weld County and into <br />Arapahoe county needs. <br />Therefore, storage vessel, good environmental criteria, unmet <br />demand. <br />Top 2 candidates: Lo-xyer and Upper Lost Creek. <br />Thus, feasibility study. Need to refine knowledge; focus is to <br />assess potential of aquifer storage. Want to highlight the areas <br />that would be best for implementation. Look at geology, <br />hydrology, infrastructure, geography. <br />Budget: Data collection, field data collection, installing 8 <br />monitoring wells, establish monitoring network, all in GIS based <br />platform, produce final report. <br />District has committed <br />$173,000 total budget: district has committed $3,000, CO <br />Geological Survey, $10,000, thus asking for $160,000 to be split <br />between Metro and South Platte Basin Roundtable Accounts: <br />requesting $80,000 from each Metro and South Platte. <br />Examples of illustrations of maps and data that will be produced. <br />Info on water removed from aquifer will be available. <br />Calculations of ground water flow. <br />Can see saturated thickness. <br />Look for storage capacity. Looking at 600,000+ acft of potential <br />storage capacity. <br />Application also shows fact that land ownership will be plotted <br />as well. <br />Purpose: identify best potential areas for recharge and identify <br />ways to make the project go forward. <br />12