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Statewide Account: Up to $850,000 Funding structure: 1.2 million financed with traditional loans from CWCB on behalf of applicants. Other half of money from WSRA application. Still in process of tming to get other grant money, thus, amount requested from CWCB "up to $850,000 hope is that by March 2009, other monies available. Other partnering ideas are being developed, this is the first piece of a cooperative funding effort. Project yield: 200,000 ac ft of wet water yield per Near; diversion of new junior water that Mike Groves has filed on, other: re-timing of existing aug credits from FFMRICo. FMRICo is a non-profit mutual ditch and reservoir company that nuts an irrigation ditch system that serves surface water to about 15,000 acres of irrigated land and operates a recharge and aug plan that provides aug water for approximately 90 wells for ag irrigation. Groves is a family farming corporation located in Morgan County. Groves owns 9 wells that historicalIv were included in GASP that irrigate approximately 1,000 acres of land. Since 2003, Groves has been developing its own aug plan to cover these wells and keep them pumping. This plan has been filed with the Water Court and operated under State Engineer SWSP approvals. FMRICO and Groves teamed up with DU to also participate in this project. While conducting the recharge operations, this project aims to provide more than 95 surface acres of wetland habitat on there or more tracts of land located in western Morgan County near the South Platte River. Wetlands and ponds will be designated to optimize recharge, aug supply and waterfowl habitat. The FMRICo water to be retimed will likely be diverted in Nov-March, which can provide warm water areas for waterfowl during freezing weather. The Groves diversions will likely occur at different times, when there is no call on the river or freezing weather removes the call because senior ditches cannot divert. Initial investigations have led DU to conclude that this project will be very beneficial to wintering and migrating waterfowl in the South Platte watershed. DU wants to seek matching funding for this project and participate in project design and deliver-. Structural water project to both divert water under a junior water right when available for recharge and augmentation use. and to re-divert and re-time augmentation credits that result from more senior recharge projects at certain times when they are not needed for direct aug use. It is estimated that this project will develop and use approximately 500-1,000 ac ft per year of new water and 1500 ac ft of re-timed aug credits. While conducting these water supply operations, this project will be beneficial to wintering and migrating waterfowl in the South Platte watershed. Questions: Greg Kernohan: DU is still evaluating this project; we have been following the project from early on. DT Ranch, earlier funded by