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before entering the inflow pipeline. The pipeline will gravity feed an off channel lined non jurisdictional water reservoir that will be constructed with approximately 25 acre -feet of storage space. Releases from the Red Wing Augmentation Pond back to the Huerfano River will be by gravity feed through a pipeline and subsurface control and measurement vault located near the Huerfano River. Schematic plan and profile drawings are shown in figure included in Figures 6 and 7. Camp Ranch Recharge Facility The Camp Ranch Recharge Pond will be constructed down gradient of the Wm. Craig Ditch on the Camp Ranch property. A measurement flume will be installed to measure the amount of consumptive use and delayed return flow water diverted from the Wm. Craig Ditch to the Camp Ranch Recharge Facility. An engineering analysis will be performed to determine the timing for water flowing subsurface between the Camp Ranch Recharge Facility and the Huerfano River. Plan and Profile schematic drawings for the Camp Ranch Recharge Facility are shown in Figures 3 and 4. Mapes Well No. 1 The Mapes Well No. 1 will be tested and converted to an augmentation well in addition to an augmented structure for irrigation upon the Camp Ranch. The well will be equipped with a flow meter and control valves. A pipeline will be installed from the well to the Huerfano River so that pumping can instantaneously deliver groundwater to the Huerfano River for the replacement of plan depletions, with those lagged well depletions later replaced by the consumptive use credits directly from diversions, as released from the Red Wing Augmentation Pond, and/or as accrued to the stream from the Camp Ranch Recharge Facility. Plan and Profile schematic drawings for the Mapes Well No. 1 are shown in Figures 3 and 4. 2.4.3 Social, Economic, and Physical Impacts The project will have no significant negative social impacts. However, there will be positive social and economic impacts. None of the facilities will be utilized for active recreation, but the project will provide wildlife habitat benefits at the augmentation pond whenever it has water in it. The pond is located off channel near Red Wing, Colorado, which is a known area for waterfowl and wildlife. The project will provide augmentation supplies which will allow HCWCD water users the ability to continue utilizing their junior and undecreed out -of- priority depletions. If the project is not implemented the State and Division Engineer's offices will curtail and eliminate junior water use, which would have an immediate and devastating impact on water users in Huerfano County and on the economics of Huerfano County. (See Appendix A, Division Engineer's letter). The project will have a positive economic impact for Huerfano County by supporting and improving the County's tax base through providing a reliable source of augmentation water to residents of the County (including towns, subdivisions, industrial users, individuals and agricultural users) that are part of the HCWCD. The augmentation 14