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? D HEART OprHE RQCKIES
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<br />Novernber 26, 2008
<br />Mr. Tadd DolieMy
<br />Tntrastate Water Maiiagemeni and Development Section
<br />COLaRADO WATER CQNSERVATION BQARD
<br />1580 Logan Street, Suite 640
<br />Denver, CO 80203
<br />Re: UPPER AItKANSAS WATER CONSERVA.NCY DTSTRICT
<br />WATER SUPFLY RESERVE ACCOUNT LETTER OF SUPP(aRT
<br />Ta Whotn It May Concern:
<br />The City aF Salida supparts the application af the Upper Arkansas Waier Conservancy District (the
<br />Distriot ar UAWCD) for a Fi?ater Stipply Resei•vc Accutrtr1 grant fram the Arkansas Basin Roundtable. The
<br />Dislrict's project involves a joinl UAWCD-U.S. Geological Serviee (IJSGS) hydralogic water batance
<br />study. The phased study begins in Chaffee County and eventualty covers four Arkansas headwaters
<br />counties; Lake, Chaffee, Fremont, and Custer.
<br />Population grawth 2or tlie Upper Arkansas
<br />lieadwaiers regian is aiiticipated to be 72°Io
<br />from 2000 to 2030, according to a Statetvide
<br />Wates• Supply Initiative (SWSI) Arkansas
<br />$asin 2006 Fact Sheet. SWSI antieipated
<br />changes in population are shown at right. The
<br />greatest population increase is projected to be
<br />in the Upper Flrkansas basin. Data generated
<br />by the UAWCD-USGS hydrologic water
<br />balance study will allow the District to deal
<br />with growing water needs for this 72%
<br />population growth. Dota w"sll be shared with
<br />dawn-basin river users.
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<br />Salida reeognizes that StAte funds to assist this small District strategically located at the headwaters of tlie
<br />Arkansas itiver will benefit the publie beyond Aistrict boundaries. The study will generate data that can
<br />be used 6y all basin river users whether municipal, agricultural or recreational. For instance, this study
<br />invalves Che faur counties - Lake, Chaffee, Frernont, Custer - that comprise the popular tourist area
<br />known as the hcadwaters of the Arkansas River. According to the Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area
<br />{AHRA}, this stretch of river is the most heavily wiiitewater rafted river in the world. AHRA annual use
<br />data retlects that - 800,000 people pass lhrough its area each year.
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