FLOOD07080

• County: Statewide
• Community: State of Colorado
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Water Efficiency Task Force - DNR
• Date: 5/11/1987
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

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agricultural water supplier includes a supplier or contractor for
water, regardless of the basis of right, which distributes or sells for
ultimate resale to customers.

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CHAPTER 3, WATER :\1AI\AGDfEXT PLAXS

Article I. General Provisions

10820. (a) The requirements of this part shall be satisfied by any
water manageml'nt or conservation plan prepared to meet federal
or state laws or regulations which substantially include the contents
of a plan required under this part if that plan was prepared after
January 1, 1981.
(bi Those suppliers that have prepared, or are preparing, an
alternate. plan as described in sobdivision (a) shall submit that plan
to the department not later than December 31, 1991.
10821. (a) Every agricultural water supplier serving water
direetlv to customers shall prepare an informational report based on
information from the last three irrigation seasons on its water
management and conservation practices in the manner set forth in
Article 2 (commencing with Section 10825) and shall submit the
feport to the department not later than December 31, 1989,
(b) The informational report shall include a determination of
whether the supplier has a significant opportunity to conserve water
or reduce the quantity of highly saline or toxic drainage water
through improved irrigation water management in the manner set
forth in subdivision (g) of Section 10825,
(c) Suppliers may consult with appropriate state agencies or the
Agricultural Experiml'nt Station to help determine whether
significant opportunities exist, State agencies shall cooperate with
agricultural water suppliers in any reasonable manner,
(d) Those suppliers that determine that a significant opportunity
exists to conserve water or reduce the quantity of highly saline or
toxic drainage water in the manner set forth in subdivision (g) of
Section 10825 shall prepare and adopt an agricultural water
management plan based on information from the last three irrigation
seasons in the manner set forth in Section 10826 and shall submit the
plan to the department not later than December 31, 1991.
10822, Every person that becomes an agricultural water supplier
after December 31, 1988, shall comply with the requirements of this
part withiri two years after becoming an agricultural water supplier
to an area.
10823, An agricultural water supplier indirectly providing water
to customers may adopt an agricultural water management plan or
participate in areawide, regional, watershed, or basinwide
agricultural water management planning,
10824. An agricultural water supplier may satisfy the
requirements of this part by participation in areawide, regional,

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10825, To the exl
address all of the foil
(a) The quantity.
supplier.
(b) Other sources
groundwater and oth
(c) A general desc
and service area, incl
(d) Total irrigated
(e) The amount of
service area.
(f) An identificatio
(1) Current water
(2) Plans for chang
(3) Conservation e,
(g) A determinatiol
irrigation water manag
or both of the followir
(I) Save water b
evaporation, or reduct
to serve further benef
(2) Reduce the qua
10826, To the exte
address all of the folio'
(a) The quantity ,
delivered to and by th
(b) A description 01
(1) The water deli\'
(2) The beneficial u
beneficial uses.
(3) Conjunctive use
(4) Incidental and f
(5) The amounts of
beneficial use to unusal
through the following:
(A) Crop evapotran
(B) l\'oncrop evapol
{C) Evaporation fro
(D) Surface flow or
(c) An identifieatior
measures for water c(

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