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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Recommendation: Staff gives a medium recommendation to funding for this study because this <br />enables water users to better use the existing water supplies in reservoirs by making appropriate releases <br />as well as having a more accurate accounting of discharge in the study reach, <br /> <br />11. Purgatoire River Basin Water Resources Planning Study <br /> <br />Beneficiary/Grantee/Contractor: Las Animas County Board of Commissioners / Purgatoire River <br />Water Conservancy District <br />Amount of Request: $100,000 Ranking: High <br /> <br />Product Produced: A reconnaissance level study, or studies, addressing water supply demands, unmet <br />needs and options over the next several decades in the Purgatoire River Basin of Las Animas County, <br />The studies, and the collaborative process of putting them together, would foster better cooperation <br />between agricultural, industrial, and municipal water users and improved management of the area's <br />limited water supplies, Potential projects, hopefully having consensus support in the region would be <br />identified and could be advanced to feasibility level study and CWCB financing requests. <br /> <br />Water Planning Relationship: The study product(s) would be components of a local water resources <br />plan for an area of the state historically, and currently, impacted by extensive energy development. <br /> <br />Recommendation: Staff gives a high recommendation to funding for this study because it would <br />compliment similar planning efforts completed in other areas of the Arkansas River Basin: E1 Paso <br />County and the SE Colorado Water Conservancy District. The study will enable local decision makers <br />to assess the impacts of energy development and growth on future water supplies and to identifY <br />opportunities to better manage and develop the water resources of the basin, <br /> <br />12. <br /> <br />Subsurface Temperatures of the Aquifers on the Denver Basin <br /> <br />Beneficiary/Grantee/Contractor: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology <br />Amount of Request: $12,000 Ranking: Low <br /> <br />Product Produced: Study to obtain temperature data from wells in thermal equilibrium to analyze and <br />interpret thermal conductivity between aquifers, <br /> <br />Water Planning Relationship: To give water users a better understanding of the groundwater <br />interaction between the Denver Basin bedrock aquifers, <br /> <br />Recommendation: Staff gives a low recommendation to funding for this study because there is other <br />more pressing work that will have a more immediate impact on water use. <br /> <br />Water Supply Planning and Finance Program <br /> <br />1. Diversion Structure Inventory <br /> <br />Beneficiary/Grantee/Contractors: CWCB, Agricultural Ditch & Reservoir Companies <br />Amount of Request: $85,000 Ranking: High <br /> <br />Product Produced: An inventory of all the major irrigation diversion structures on the Arkansas River <br />or Colorado River. The inventory would include type, size, and condition of each structure, together <br />with photo documentation, location, owner's name and address, water rights, and replacement/repair <br />cost estimate, <br /> <br />7 <br />