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August 20, 2012 <br />President — Matthew Proctor General Manager — Ann M Lopkoff <br />Vice President — Larry McElroy Secretary/Bookkeeper — Tandy <br />Sec/Treas — Jane Rhodes Lamberty <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />Finance Section <br />Attn: Anna Mauss, P.E. <br />1580 Logan Street, Suite 600 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />Fax: 303-894-2578 <br />Dear Ms. Mauss, <br />Email: ann@cwpda.org <br />Colorado Water Protective and Development Association (CWPDA) is a 501 -C12 non -profit <br />organization, incorporated in the State of Colorado in 1965. The stated primary purpose of the <br />association is to protect and develop underground and surface waters of the Arkansas River <br />Basin. <br />CWPDA has approximately 490 members representing approximately 1019 wells. The <br />membership is composed of individuals, corporations, municipalities, and other entities that own <br />or control wells within the Arkansas River Basin. CWPDA's municipal members provide water <br />to about 38,000 people and irrigation wells of its members provided sole source and <br />supplemental irrigation water to over 71,000 acres. CWPDA municipal members are primarily <br />the agricultural communities between Fowler and Las Animas. Most of these members provide <br />their own augmentation water with allocations of Fry -Ark Project: therefore their water <br />purchases are not shown on the attached table. This grant request is limited to CWPDA's <br />irrigation wells. <br />With the implementation of the Amended Rules and Regulations Goveming Groundwater <br />Pumping in the Arkansas River Basin, Colorado, CWPDA has developed and operates an annual <br />plan for providing augmentation water to replace the out -of- priority stream depletions of its <br />member wells. The drought of 2012 has had an adverse financial impact upon CWPDA and its <br />membership. CWPDA anticipates having to increase members' administrative fees to cover <br />1220 East V Street, La Junta, CO 81050 <br />Phone: 719- 384 -2754 Fax: 719 -384 -2123 <br />www.cwpda.org <br />