C150217 contract docs

• Contract/PO #: C150217
• Contractor Name: Colorado Water Protective and Development Association
• Contract Type: Grant
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Contract Documents

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15 West 4�' Stre�t J P.O. Box b04 •
€ La Junta, CO 81U50
( i Larry McElroy �- President
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June 21, 2005
Colorado Water Conservation Board
Mike Serlet
1313 Sherman Street, Room 721
Denver, CO 80203
Dear Mr. Serlet,
(� 384-2754 Fax [phone]
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Clay Fitzsimmons - Secretary/Treasurer
Colorado Water Protective and Development Association (CWPDA) is a 501-C12
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nonprofit organization, incorporated in the State of Colorado in 1965. The stated prima .ry
purpose of the association is to protect and develop underground and surFace waters of the
Arkansas River Basin.
CWPDA has over 500 members representing approximately 1018 �wells. The
membership is composed of individuals, corporations, municipalities, and other entities that own
or control wells within the Arkansas River Basin. CWPDA's municipal members provide water
to about 38,000 people and irrigation welis of its members provided sole sowce and
supplemental irrigation water to over 71,000 acres. CWPDA municipal members are primarily
the agricultural communities between Fowler and Las Animas. Most of these members provide
their own augmentation water with allocations of Fry-Ark Project; therefore their water
purchases are not shawn on the attached table. Tlus grant request is limited"to CWPDA's
irrigation wells.
With the implementation of the Amended Rules and Regulation Goveming Groundwater
Pumping in the Arkansas Itiver Basin, Colorado, CWPDA has developed and operates an annual
plan for providing augmentation water to replaee the out-of-priority stream depletions of its
members wells. The drought of 2002 and subsequent years has had an adverse financial impact
upon CWPDA and its membership. CWPDA has ha.d to increase members' administrative fees
to cover increases of engineering, legal and administration. Additionally water fees were
increased sigruficantly to purchase less water at increasing higher unit cost. It has also depleted
is water fund reserve .in order to puxchase water. CWPDA requests grant monies to replace its
�vater fund reserves and to recover the financial impact of the drought. CWPDA request a grant
of $307,450 to affset the in.creased cost of its water purchases as shown on the attached Table 1.