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<br />3. Ogallala Aquifer Irrigation Water Management Program <br /> <br />Grantee and/or Contractors: Soil Conservation Board Amount of request: $30,000 <br /> <br />Total Cost of study/project: $130,000 annual cost <br /> <br />Cost share and partners: $60,000 from user fees, $40,000 from General Fund, <br />$30;000 from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (BaR). Funds from the BaR were lost due to <br />budge.t reductions. Soils is expected to ask for General Funds for the portion to be funded <br />with Severance Tax next year. <br /> <br />Schedule: One fiscal year. <br /> <br />Product produced: Two state employees provide well testing, irrigation system <br />, evaluations, and irrigation water management services to land owners from Baca County <br />to Sedgwick County. The program results in the substantial conservation of energy and <br />water. <br /> <br />Water planning relationship: Over 700,000 acres of irrigated land overlays the Ogallala <br />aquifer in Colorado including Baca, Prowers, Kiowa, Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma, <br />Phillips and. Sedgwick Counties in. eastern Colorado. Moderate to high oil and gas <br />production that makes payments to the Severance Tax Trust Fund impacts this area. This <br />irrigation water management program provides needed water planning technology to the <br />area's farmers. <br /> <br />4. Willow Creek Reclamation Project <br /> <br />Grantee and/or Contractors: Willow Creek Reclamation Committee <br /> <br />Amount of request: $ 31,350 <br /> <br />Total Cost of study/project: $62,700 <br /> <br />Cost share and partners: Corps of Engineers ($31,350) <br /> <br />Schedule: 3-year study/project period <br /> <br />Product produced: A reconnaissance report describing the nature and extent of pollution <br />sources (surface and groundwater) caused by mining activity and the potential for these <br />contaminants to degrade water and ecological resources including water supplies and the <br />floodplain ecosystem. The report will identify alternative restoration activities that <br />remove, neutralize, or isolate pollution sources from interaction with the surfac~ <br />environment. <br /> <br />Water planning relationship: The Willow Creek watershed is identified in the State <br />Non-Point Source Assessment Report and Management Plan (1990) and the Colorado <br />Water Quality Control Division (1991) report as a high priority area requiring control of <br />non-point sources of metals from historic mining activities. <br /> <br />5. Upper Colorado River Project, Phase III (planning and design) <br /> <br />Grantee and/or Contractors: Northwest Colorado Council of Governments <br />(NWCCOG) <br /> <br />,. , <br /> <br />'., <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br />