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Potential Options for Meeting Ag Gap <br />Arkansas River <br />Construct new storage <br />• Reservoir enlargements or dredging <br />Removal of storage restrictions <br />• Additional Recharge development <br />Ag efficiency improvements <br />- Domino effect <br />Agricultural purchase of more senior water rights to <br />remove river call or provide for well augmentation <br />Water banking <br />Joint projects with M &I users <br />— Rotating agricultural fallowing with agricultural firming <br />Concepts for providing renewable water <br />supply for M &I use (in -basin only) <br />• Conservation <br />• Storage to regulate and firm yields <br />• Diversion at or above Pueblo Reservoir <br />- Best water quality <br />• Diversion below Pueblo Reservoir <br />- Reduced water quality <br />- Higher treatment costs <br />- Disposal of waste stream <br />Concepts for meeting unincorporated El Paso <br />County gap (non- tributary GW providers) <br />• Development of satellite well field <br />• Construction of 20,000 + AF of surface water storage <br />• Store non - tributary groundwater at low pumping rates in <br />surface water storage <br />— Peak demands <br />— Drought yields <br />• Above meets 50% of future needs at a lesser impact on <br />non - renewable supplies <br />• Develop source of renewable supply to meet other 50% <br />of demand <br />31 <br />