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increase possible because of the fact that four out of the five are entities that have the <br />potential to increase residents and water use over time, because there are remaining <br />residential lots that are not currently connected to the communities central water systems. <br />The District believes that other unidentified water users (including subdivisions, <br />commercial, industrial, agricultural or recreational water users) exist that will find it <br />necessary to participate in this augmentation plan. Please see the Appendix A letter from <br />Steve Witte, Division Engineer, concerning the desperate and urgent need for a regional <br />augmentation plan for the Huerfano River basin to avoid curtailment of junior water <br />users. Additional non - irrigation water users will be identified over the next few years <br />and we believe that the demands could be up to 25 acre -feet or more of replacement <br />water per year during that time. In addition, junior irrigation water rights are called out <br />on the Huerfano River every year, and the demand for supplemental irrigation water is <br />expected to exceed the supply that can be provided from the use of the historical <br />consumptive use credits from the Camp Ranch Water Rights. <br />The HCWCD intends to analyze all potential demands within the area of study, acquire <br />senior water rights and dedicate an adequate amount of replacement water to meet those <br />demands. This project will result in a Regional Augmentation Plan. <br />2.4 PROJECT DESCRIPTION — Analysis of Alternatives and Selected <br />Alternative <br />The purpose of the project is to provide a reliable source of water, infrastructure and <br />physical improvements necessary to develop an efficient regional augmentation plan for <br />HCWCD for use in the Huerfano River drainage basin. Project improvements will <br />consist of the following: <br />1. Construction of the Red Wing Augmentation Pond and associated facilities; <br />2. Construction of the Camp Ranch Recharge Facility onsite at the Camp Ranch; <br />3. Modifications to the Mapes Well No. 1 to convert it from a production well to an <br />augmented well for continued irrigation and for use as a re- timing well to provide <br />augmentation water directly to the Huerfano River in connection with the use of <br />the recharge facility. <br />Red Wing Augmentation Pond is an approximate 25 acre -foot storage and return facility <br />that is located off channel adjacent to the Huerfano River. The purpose of the Red Wing <br />Augmentation Pond is to store and release water for the regional augmentation plan. The <br />Camp Ranch Water Rights, as exchanged, will be diverted from the existing Wilson <br />Ditch headgate, measured, and delivered via gravity flow through a pipeline to the Red <br />Wing Augmentation Pond. Releases from the Red Wing Augmentation Pond will be <br />delivered via gravity flow through a pipeline and measurement structure to the Huerfano <br />River downstream of the RL Smith No. 1 Ditch headgate and upstream of the PP <br />Gonzales ditch headgate. <br />11 <br />