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Water Project Loan Program <br />Project Data Sheet <br />Borrower: <br />Huerfano County Water Conservancy <br />County: <br />Huerfano <br />District <br />Project Name: <br />Regional Augmentation Project <br />Project Type: <br />Water Rights Acquisition <br />and Augmentation <br />Drainage Basin: <br />Arkansas / District 67 <br />Water <br />Huerfano River <br />Source: <br />Total Project <br />$3,050,000 <br />Funding <br />Construction Fund <br />Cost: <br />Source: <br />Type of <br />Low - Income Municipal <br />Avg. Annual <br />19.5 AF <br />Borrower: <br />Diversions: <br />CWCB Loan: <br />$2,222,000 (w/ 1% service fee) <br />Interest Rate: <br />2.25% Term: 30 years <br />The Huerfano County Water Conservancy District is applying for a CWCB loan to develop a <br />regional augmentation program to replace depletions of wells in unincorporated communities in <br />Huerfano County through a regional augmentation program. Within Huerfano County there are <br />many water users that are at risk of being curtailed due either to being out of priority or due to <br />failing (or failed) augmentation plans. The users include schools and domestic, commercial, and <br />agricultural users. The District has utilized a Substitute Water Supply Plan and Regional Rule 14 <br />Replacement Plan from 2009 to 2013 to provide augmentation water to five entities that were in <br />danger of having water use curtailed due to out of priority usage. The District believes that other <br />water users will find it necessary to join the regional augmentation plan and the Division <br />Engineer has indicated an urgent need for such a plan. Project components include: the purchase <br />of land and water rights, the construction of a recharge reservoir, and the construction of a <br />reservoir for augr <br />