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Water Supply Reserve Account- Grant Application Form <br />P'm-m Revised May 2007 <br />1. The applicant has an existing water conseivation plan. <br />The Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District does not have an existing formal water conservation plan. <br />It is not required to have a formal plan. UAWCD is not a covered entity under the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Act of 1991 (H691-1154). That Act defines "covered entities" as retail water providers who <br />sell 2,000 acre feet or more of water annually. The UAWCD has a renewable supply of 657 acre feet of <br />augmentation water; present demand for augmentation water is 351 acre feet. <br />m. The water activity will make new water available for use. <br />No new water will be made available. However, data will be generated regarding the potential for aquifer <br />storage in the headwaters region. Since future optimum use of ground water and surface water supplies <br />could include use of aquifer storage and recovery similar to reservoir storage and recovery as an innovative <br />way to meet multiple consumptive and nonconsumptive demands, data generated will form a basis for <br />future studies regarding utilizing aquifers for water storage. <br />n. The water activity involves reoperation, enlargement, or rehabilitation of existing facilities. <br />UAWCD's hydrologic water balance study emerged as a result of UAWCD's planning to meet increased <br />water demands, which includes its -$1.8M rehabilitation and enlargement of two high mountain reservoirs. <br />The Water Activity Addresses Issues of Statewide Value <br />o. The water activity helps sustain agriculture, and open space, or meets environmental or recreational <br />needs. <br />The study helps sustain open space, and environmental and recreational needs. The BRT nonconsumptive <br />needs committee identified nine environmental and recreational attributes, which were overlain with basin <br />maps to depict geographic areas with the greatest concentrations of priority attributes. The study area is a <br />high priority area: it contains 60% of basin-wide significant boating, 50% of basin-wide trout streams, 100% <br />of known boreal toad locations, and 25% of basin significant riparian plant communities. <br />The study area contains an exceptional amount of basin-wide special value waters, including 50% of <br />natural lake levels, 50% of instream flow waters, and 100% of Colorado outstanding waters. Natural lake <br />level lakes include Willis, Alan, Clohesy, Silver King, Beal, Harvard, Kroenke, Hartenstein, Lost, <br />Cottonwood, Alpine, Pomeroy, Upper Pomeroy, North Fork Reservoir, Boss, Waterdog, and Upper <br />Waterdog. Data generated will increase recreational benefits in the study area because it can be used to <br />support CWCB's instream flow program, which is on the rise. <br />Basin and study area environmental and recreation attributes are summarized in Table 14. <br />Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District (UAWCD) Page 20 of 42