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PROVIDER 2010 Demand Acre-Feet er Year Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Authority (ACWWA) 3,680 Meridian Metropolitan District 2,644 Pinery Water and Waste Water District 3,833 St~negatc Village I~~etropolitan District 2,770 SMWSA will be the sponsoring entity for the loan with each of the individual members identified above signing a participating agreement and pledging revenue from service charges and/or tap fees. The participation agreement will also include a step up provision. It should be noted that at this time all SMWSA members except; Castle Pines Metropolitan District, Parker Water and Sanitation, and Roxborough Park will be acquiring capacity in the pipeline via their own independent financing (up to $25.7 million for up to 31.98 million gallons per day). Hydrology, Water Rights, and Long-term Demand The individual members of the SMWSA have developed a complex portfolio of water rights. These water rights include: extensive Denver Basin groundwater rights, direct flow and storage rights on the South Platte and its tributaries, alluvial ground water rights, and leasing/exchange/recapture of reusable effluent. In the immediate term the pipeline capacity will be used to convey and exchange existing water rights and yields. In the near and midterm the pipeline capacity will be used to convey consumable return flows, acquired water rights from either agricultural transfers, new junior storage, and/or any future basin imports. A summary of the 4 SMWSA providers that will be acquiring pipeline capacity (on both a firm and variable capacity basis) and the cost of acquisition is provided below: PROVIDER FIRM CAPACITY VARIABILE CAPACITY COST (Million Gallons/Day) (Million Gallons/Day) (million dollars) Arapahoe County 3.5 $2.6 Water and Wastewater Authority (ACWWA Meridian .55 $0.8 Metropolitan District Pinery Water and .50 1.0 $1.5 Waste Water District Stonegate Village 1.0 $0.7 Metropolitan District TOTAL 1.05 5.5 $5.6 6