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g15 West 4th Street I P.O. Box 604 (719) 384-2754 Fax (719) 384-2123 <br /> La Junta, CO 81050 E-Mail cwpda @centurytel.net;44,,,arty McElroy—President ,� Clay Fitzsimmons—Secretary/Treasurer <br /> esley Eck—Vice President IJ _ <br /> ,E Fp <br /> }, 33 <br /> June 21, 2005 <br /> { Colorado Water Conservation Board <br /> Mike Serlet <br /> 1313 Sherman Street, Room 721 <br /> 1 Denver, CO 80203 <br /> Dear Mr. Serlet, <br /> Colorado Water Protective and Development Association (CWPDA) is a 501-C12 <br /> nonprofit organization, incorporated in the State of Colorado in 1965. The stated primary <br /> purpose of the association is to protect and develop underground and surface waters of the <br /> paArkansas River Basin. <br /> CWPDA has over 500 members representing approximately 1018 wells. The <br /> dimembership 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 /> Nthe 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 /> N ._ <br /> purchases are not shown on the attached table. This grant request is limited'to CWPDA's <br /> irrigation wells. <br /> is <br /> With the implementation of the Amended Rules and Regulation Governing Groundwater <br /> Pumping in the Arkansas River Basin, Colorado, CWPDA has developed and operates an annual <br /> Nplan for providing augmentation water to replace the out-of-priority stream depletions of its <br /> members wells. The drought of 2002 and subsequent years has had an adverse financial impact <br /> Oupon CWPDA and its membership. CWPDA has had to increase members' administrative fees <br /> to cover increases of engineering, legal and administration. Additionally water fees were <br /> gioincreased significantly to purchase less water at increasing higher unit cost. It has also depleted <br /> is water fund reserve in order to purchase water. CWPDA requests grant monies to replace its <br /> water fund reserves and to recover the financial impact of the drought. CWPDA request a grant <br /> of$307,450 to offset the increased cost of its water purchases as shown on the attached Table 1. <br /> • <br />