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. Petition to Designate New Designated Ground Water Basin Submitted: 00 March 6, Josh Moser and the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District applied to the Ground Water Commission to create the Box Elder Creek Designated Ground Water Basin. The proposed designated basin is just to the west of . the currently designated Lost Creek Designated Basin and effected counties include: Weld, Adams, Denver, Arapahoe and Elbert counties. It should be noted that the Denver Basin aquifers that lie beneath the Box Elder Creek Alluvium is not proposed to become designated ground water pursuant to this petition. The Colorado Ground Water Commission will discuss this request at the Groundwater Commission on May 19, and determine how to proceed. Northern Colorado Water Conservancy DIstrict Meetings: second Friday of every month, held at the Loveland office for more information visit www.ncwcd.OI"l[ Central Colorado Water Conservancy District Hosts Children's Water Festival: 00 Tuesday, May 9th, the Children's Water Festival was held at AIMS Community College in Greelcy, Colorado. The Festival promoted hands-on and brains-on learning about local water issues to fourth grade students in the Weld, Morgan and Adams counties. This one day free event brought water professionals from around the state of Colorado to provide presentations and activities about water, water conservation, human health and aquatic life while covering a wide range of core curriculum areas including language arts, math, science, social studies. visual arts, and health & wellness. Lower South Platte Water Conservancy DIstrict: The LSPWCD held its regularly scheduled meeting on March 14. Included in Manager Joe Frank's report was that the Sedgwick County Well Users Agreement had been signed, and that the Tennination Agreement with GASP would be sent once the Sedgwick County Well Users was returned to the District Office. Rio Grande Basin . Rio Grande WCD to File Statements of Opposition: The Rio Grande Water Conservation District will file statements of opposition in two water rights cases before the Division 3 Water Court. The district's lawyer, David Robbins, told the board of directors on April 25 that to remain apprised of the Crestone View Fanns and Roger Perry applications. the district must file statements of opposition to the claims asserted in applications both have filed. What the two applications want is to use water from wells on one part of their properties for irrigation on other parts of the properties where well flows are poor. Division 3 engineer Mike Sullivan said what the two farms are trying to do amounts to "a backdoor into supplemental wells," no longer allowed by the state engineer's office. Several on the board said the request amounted to an expanded use for water. Both Robbins and Sullivan said there should be a limitation as to the amount of water used at each farm. Robbins will file the statement of opposition on the Crestone View Farms application this month, on the Roger Perry farm application next month. District engineer Allen Davey said he continues to be optimistic about aquifer storage. The valley's aquifer storage is estimated at 35,000 acre feet more than last year. But through 2005, Davey estimates the aquifer was depleted 750,000 acre feet. In addition, Sullivan reported that moisture conditions are only at 4 percent of normal in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, at the eastern edge of the Closed Basin Project. Robbins suggested the district enter the case involving the Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture water request for the Village at Wolf Creek. He explained that the entry would not amount to opposition to the application but would allow the district to be informed of pleadings and so forth in order to advise . 22