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<br />Page Seventeen <br /> <br />E. Legal aspects for large scale groundwater development including problems <br /> <br />relating to any needed condemnation, alluvial storage possibilities, <br /> <br />administrative and judicial ambiguities concerning the appropriation of <br /> <br />nontributary groundwater outside of designated groundwater basins. <br /> <br />F. The steps required to compile the available groundwater data into an <br /> <br />accessible form for management use. <br /> <br />G. The feasibility of recharge programs with and without additional surface <br /> <br />storage. <br /> <br />H. Aspects regarding exchange or reuse of nontributary return flows. (If <br /> <br />groundwater use and reuse is determined economically feasible, <br /> <br />nontributary groundwater could be put to use as a potable supply <br /> <br />initially, then treated and reused for nonpotable purposes such as <br /> <br />irrigation or commercial/industrial use. Return flows could be <br /> <br />incorporated into augmentation plans, or sold outright, to capitalize on <br /> <br />their use and reuse nature.) <br /> <br />I. The impact of substituting bedrock groundwater for portions for surface <br /> <br />diversion and storage projects, i.e., will it prolong the time when <br /> <br />COloradO develops its full entitlements on rivers leaving the state. <br /> <br />(Denver Basin groundwater is not threatened by demands coming from outside <br /> <br />COlorado, but surface supplies may be.) <br />