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Alternative Agricultural Water Transfer Methods -Grant Application Form <br />January 2008 <br />Reservoir. Water from Rueter-Hess will be separately piped and treated for use by these water supply entities. <br />PWSD's infrastructure is funded currently by charging inclusion fees for new developments, tap fees for <br />new hookups, and a water resources toll to cover water supply issues with new developments. Service charges are <br />only used to meet operation costs. PWSD employs ablock-rate water fee structure that encourages conservation <br />by increasing costs for use above base levels. The current fees being charged by PWSD are shown in the attached <br />Exhibit A, District RatelFee Schedule, Effective January 1, 2008. <br />c) For other entities, background, organizational size, staffing and budget, and funding related to <br />water that is relevant in determining whether the applicant has the ability to accomplish the <br />program/project for which funding is sought. <br />Not applicable. See b) above. <br />d) A brief history of the Applicant(s). <br />The Parker Water and Sanitation District has been continuously providing water and wastewater services to <br />its customers since 1962. PWSD initially used a single Cherry Creek well and old Denver Basin wells to meet its <br />water needs. PWSD remained very small until the early 1970s, when there were only a few hundred residential taps <br />being served. In the early 1980s PWSD, under Mr. Jaeger's leadership, began the adjudication process of its Denver <br />Basin and Cherry Creek water rights. <br />Currently, its principal water supplies come from the Denver Basin and PWSD has adjudicated several Water <br />Court cases to allow the use of all of the Denver Basin water beneath its service area. Its service area currently <br />encompasses 27,604 acres. To supplement its Denver Basin water supplies, PWSD diverts in priority water from <br />Cherry Creek to the extent that it is available. The current permitting of Rueter-Hess Reservoir will allow for the more <br />efficient diversion of these Cherry Creek flows. PWSD also has an extensive reuse plan through its adjudicated <br />augmentation plan, which allows PWSD to pump or divert an equivalent volume to the amount of reusable effluent <br />released from its advanced wastewater treatment plants. PWSD also has an aggressive water conservation plan which, <br />over the period 1986-1998, decreased residential water use by 40 percent. That water conservation plan continues <br />today and the conservation levels achieved during the 1980s and 1990s are being maintained today. Even with all of <br />these water supplies, and water conservation programs, PWSD is seeking to increase the amount of renewable water <br />in its water supply system and reduce its dependence on non-renewable water supplies. That is the purpose of this <br />project. <br />e) Please include any relevant Tabor issues relating to the funding request that may affect the <br />Contracting Entity. <br />There are no Tabor issues related to this grant request. <br />4