LAWMA AgEmergencyGrant Applic

• Applicant: Lower Arkansas Water Management Association
• Grant Type: Severance Tax
• Fiscal Year ‎(i.e. 2008)‎: 2013
• Project Name: Agricultural Emergency Drought Response
• CWCB Section: Water Conservation & Drought Planning
• Related Templates: Drought Mitigation
• Grants - Doc Type: Application

LOWER ARKANSAS WATER MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
P. O. Box 1161
Lamar, Colorado 81052
[phone] [phone] FAX
August 3,2013
BY EMAIL AND MAIL
(�ames.eklund(state.co.us)
Mr. James Eklund, Director
Colorado Water Conservation Board
1313 Sherman Street,Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Re: Agricultural Emergency Drought Grant Application
Dear Mr.Eklund:
Pursuant to Section 37-60-123.5, C.R.S., and the Colorado Water Conservation
Board's ("Conservation Board") Agricultural Emergency Drought Response Program
Guidelines/Procedures dated March 2010 ("Guidelines"), I am writing on behalf of Lower
Arkansas Water Management Association ("LAWMA") to request a grant of$103,899.28 for
emergency drought-related water augmentation purposes.
LAWMA is a non-profit corporation organized for the primary purpose of
providing a means for its members to continue to make ground water diversions from irrigation
wells and other structures with junior priorities in the Arkansas River water rights regime.
LAWMA provides this service to its members primarily through its plan for augmentation
decreed in Case No. 02CW181, Water Division 2, and through its Rule 14 Plans. The
predominant use of water by LAWMA's members is for agriculture, but members also use the
water for commercial,municipal,domestic,and industrial uses.
In 2012, LAWMA requested a grant of$331,592.50 ($326,800 for augmentation
water and $4,792.50 for drought related expenses) for emergency drought-related water
augmentation purposes, as more fully described below. At the time LAWMA made that request,
the Conservation Board had only$227,693.22 remaining in the Agricultural Emergency Drought
Response Program ("Program") fund. The Conservation Board therefore approved a grant of
$227,693.22 for LAWMA in 2012. With the re-funding of the Program for 2013, LAWMA
respectfully requests a grant of$103,899.28, which is the difference between the amount of the
grant that LAWMA requested and the amount of the grant that LAWMA was awarded in 2012.
LAWMA requested the 2012 grant on the following basis:
The replacement water that LAWMA provides to its members under its Rule 14
Plans and its plan for augmentation derives from the water rights that LAWMA changed for such
purposes in Case No. 02CW181 and from water rights LAWMA is now seeking to change in