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SOl "1'fl PLATTF RIVER TASk FURCE <br />Options for ('onsidcrNtiun <br />,,---?-Suggestions for improving the system of watcr rights adjudication and administration <br />a. Watcr Court refnrm (e.g., strcamline the Water Court process, standardized <br />cnginecring via rulcmaking, incrcase authority of water referee, require demonstration of actual <br />injury-not thcoretical) <br />b. Delegate more discretionary authority to thc State Engineer to administer river <br />(allows more timely actions) and augmentation plans (e.g., ullow wells to call for water when <br />dcpletians are in priurity) - sume suggest there should be reform of State Enginecr <br />administration (e.g., don't reyuire paper filling reservoirs). <br />c. Designate which enbineering standards should be adopted by the water courts <br />(e.g., ground water modeling tcchniqucs like Glover and MUDFLOW) to minimir.e time spent <br />arguing about which unes arr better <br />d. Clarify the standard of review for 308(4) appeals <br />e. Evrrybody should live by the same rules - necd to explain what this means <br />2. Suggestions for increasing overall supply of water in South Platte River I3asin <br />a. Trec thinning on national forest Innd (decrease sublimation) <br />b. Removal of non-beneficial phreatuphytes (allow for credit of historical <br />consumptive use - shouldn't this parenthetical go in tiection 3'') <br />C. Construction of new water storage or expansion af existing reservoirs Dalated: dn„ dncs nonncrcm <br />(including dredging) -Iq capture, existing flow that may otherwise go out of the state unused. i^h^?i^ nut mcicis <br />Deletee: , <br />d. Suppun existing storage projects (e.g., Windy Gap Firming Project) and <br />proposed projects (e.g., pump back projects from Colorado River basin) ( I didn't hcar this <br />C. Remove vegetation and trash choking flow in rivers and creeks (s:tme as 2.b?1 <br />f. Shuring of infrastructurc cx lain <br />g. Conjunctive use of surface and ground water reexamine assumption that all <br />ground water pumping reduccs amounts available for senior surface water rights <br />h. Develop unappropriated water in state jsame as 2.c?J <br />i. Ntore flexibility of using excess credits <br />3. Suggestions fur making water available for well augmentation or decreasing amount <br />of augmentntion water rcyuirrd to augment vvells