C153808 Feasibility Study

• Contract/PO #: C153808
• Contractor Name: Arkansas Groundwater Users Association
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 14
• County: Pueblo
• Bill Number: ARA
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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AGUA will annually purchase or lease replacement water. subject to availability, as necessary to mcct the needs of Plan
participants, but cannot guarantee a supply sufficient to meet the total augmentation needs in any given year. In the event of an
insufficient supply, AGUA will equitably allocate the available water.

Primary Augmentation Plan

Replacement water owned or leased by AGUA will be made available under the Primary or Supplemental Plans. Plan Participants
will be charged based upon water costs and number of wells within the plan. Replacement water will be delivered by AGUA at the
direction of tile Division Engineer, and in accordance with the Division 2 Rules, to replace depletions to senior Colorado water
rights and usable state line flows.

Plan participants shall be required to submit tbe amount of well pumping in acre feet that thcy want to have augmented not
later than January 15, 1997 and every year after. Plan participants shall also be reqnired to submit a form to AGUA for the
Southeastern Colorado Conservancy District and the Reclamation Reform Act for persons who own or operate 240 acres or more of
irrigable land This forn1 is considered as part of our application process.

Any well or group of wells requiring a substitute supply plan will bear any additional engineering costs.

Supplemental Augmentation Plan

Any well users not submitting a completed application with sufficient fees by the deadlines OR any well user applying after
February 15tb can only be augmented through the supplemental plan. This plan would be implemented with an amendment to
our primary plan and if the Association is able to find additional augmentation water, Wells in the supplemental plan will be
assessed an additional $200 per well to amend tile Primary Plan or, with board approval, sharing the eosts of the amendment with
those persons amending the plan, whichever is the lesser of the two.

Rules and Regulations

The Division 2 Rules require that all groundwater diversions be augmented based on prescribed depletion rates. If the Plan does
not meet the participants' full augmentation requirements, participants will be held responsible for adhering to the Rules and
curtailing groundwater diversions as necessary if you reach your purchased or reserved amount of water. The Rules will be strictIy
enforced. You may request to purchase more water if there is water available or you may choose to sell back a portion of your
reserved amount to persons diverting from the same geogrnphicaI area as prescribed by the Division Engineer.

In the event individual participants underestimate their annual grow1dwater diversions, and AGUA projects that their
depletion's will exceed their replacement water allocation, the Division Engineer shall notify the well participants and
AGUA until more water is found for that well,

The total augmentation water required for replacement of groundwater diversions for irrigation will be based on actual monthly
groundwater diversions as supplied by the participants in the Plan or the electric companies, and the replacement rates required by
the presumptive depletion's established in the Division 2 Rules. The present presumptive replacement factors established in the
Division 2 Rules for irrigation groundwater diversions under this plan are as follows:

30% oftotal acre-feet pumped (diverted) for supplemental irrigation supply (those persons that use their
well/wells as a supplement to their ditch water rights).
50% of total acre-feet pumped (diverted) for sole source irrigation supply (those persons that don't use any ditch
water rights and rely totally on their well/wells.
75% of total acre-feet pumped (diverted) for sprinkler irrigation supply (those persons that use their wells strictly
for sprinkler irrigation, whether supplemental or sole source)

A complete set of Rules and Regulations are available from the Division 2 Engineer's Office.

Form 13 - Groundwater Use Information Form

This form must be submitted for each well in order to be in compliance with Rule 13 of the amended Rules and
Regulations. This fonn is provided by the Division 2 Engineer's Office and must only be completed one time, except in
cases of changes of ownership or other changes in the use of the well. AGUA will provide this form with this application.
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