WSP02691

• File Number: 8460.500
• Description: Platte River Recovery Plan
• Basin: South Platte
• Date: 7/1/1997
• Author: Colo. Neb. Wyo
• Title: Cooperative Agreement for Platte River Research and Other Efforts Relating to Endangered Species Habitats Along the Central Platte River, Nebraska
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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incentives available to both surface and groundwater irrigators to
improve on-farm efficiency of water use through such measures as
improved measurement instrumentation, irrigation scheduling, and more
efficient on-farm delivery systems;

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incremental pricing and conservation credit for agricultural and
municipal users;

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education and Information programs;

. inCentives for municipal conservation by individual water users;

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. reduction or retirement of consumptive uses on a willing-participant
basis with compensation made to local governmental entities for third
party and external impacts;

. dry year leasing of water supplies from consumptive uses to a Program;

. conjunctive management of surface and groundwater that achieves
sustainable use of groundwater;

.. identification of demonstration projects;

. additional surface water and/or groundwater reregulation opportunities
involving reductions in diversion or pumping; and

. incentives available to hydropower producers to provide water to a
Program.

The assessment in each region shall result in recommendations regarding the
inclusion of each of these alternative types of water conservation/supply
projects, or other alternative types as may be identified for that region within a
Program. Other assessments of or recommendations for water
conservation/supply alternatives may be included for further consideration if and
to the extent the Water Management Committee determines that a regional
assessment has not adequately considered feasible alternatives.

In addition, the consultant shall develop as pan of the Reconnaissance Study and
in cooperation with the states and the Water Management Committee, a water
budget for each region for use in helping to evaluate how other water related
activities, including new accretions and depletions to the system, will affect
streamflows down to and through the associated habitats. Further, the water
budget should have the 'capacity for use in helping to evaluate how any proposed
water conservation/supply measure influences the amount and timing of flows

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