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Water Supply Reserve Account- Grant Application Form Form Revised May 2007 h. The applicant has a demonstrated need for financial assistance based on the inability or difficulty obtaining funding elsewhere. UAWCD is a small rural water provider with limited financial resources. It is strategically located at the headwaters of the Arkansas River basin. The District's available financial resources have substantially been committed to the rehabilitation and expansion of two key high mountain reservoirs (-$1.8 million) and the time-consuming (4+ years) Environmental Impact Study regarding renewal of U.S. Forest Service conditional use permits at three key reservoirs (-$250,000). TABLE 11. DEMONSTRATED NEED FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Reservoir Elevation Increase a.f. Engineering EIS Construction Total North Fork 11,400 530 to 595 $165,000 $499,050 $835,000 0'Haver Reservoir 9,200 na na -$250,000 na na Boss Lake 11,870 221 to 668 $15,000 $1,000,000 $1,015,000 Meeting Water Mana2ement Goals and Obiectives and Identified Water Needs i. The water activity helps complete a needs assessment, including consumptive and/or non-consumptive needs, that was not fully funded fi•om other sources. Under §37-75-104 (2)(c), the BRT is charged with developing a basin-wide consumptive and nonconsumptive needs assessment, conducting an analysis of available water, and proposing projects for meeting needs. The project is an analysis of available water. It also meets all other needs: TABLE 12. COMPLETING NEEDS ASSESSMENTS Re uirement How Stud Hel s Com lete The study will help meet consumptive needs by generating site-specific data that can help meet the M&I gap. The Arkansas Basin Consumptive Use Water Needs Assessment: 2030 - 2008 Update (June 2008) identified a M&I shortfall by 2030 of 31,500 a.f. The future of consumptive use is conjunctive surface water Consumptive and ground water management strategies including enlarging augmentation plans and ground water Needs development. The study helps complete the consumptive needs assessment by investigating the aquifer recharge rate to estimate the amount of ground water available for sustained use without negative effects. Table 6 ives exam les of how data enerated will be used to meet consum tive needs. Non-consumptive environmental attributes / priorities include: boating, fishing, waterfowl hunting, birding trails, threatened and entlangered species, special value waters, wetlands, significant riparian areas, and Non- Audubon bird areas. The study will help sustain all these. For instance, hydrologic data can help preserve Consumptive aquatic ecosystems, riparian areas, and mountain habitats. Hydrologic data can help manage storage Needs related to fisheries. Study area non-consumptive priorities are summarized and discussetl in detail under Addressin /ssues of Statewide Value. The UAWCD/USGS hydrologic water balance study will quantify ground water and surface water supply Water Supply availability with an emphasis on ground water recharge rates to identify the amount of ground water Availability available for sustainable use. Propose The BRT can use study resuks to propose projects and methods to meet needs. Since future optimum use of projects or ground water antl surface wabr supplies could include use of aquifer storage and recovery similar to reservoir methods to storage and recovery as an innovative way to meet multiple consumptive and nonconsumptive demands, data meet needs enerated will form a basis for future studies re ardin utilizin a ifers for water stora e. Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District (UAWCD) Page 17 of 42