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ADMINISTRATION PROTOCOL <br /> Augmentation Plan Accounting <br /> Division One - South"Platte River <br /> This protocol establishes the accounting and reporting process required to enable the <br /> division engineer's office to confirm that depletions from all out-of-priority diversions are <br /> being replaced so as to prevent injury to vested water rights. The accounting must <br /> comport with established "cradle to grave" accounting standards, which allow an audit of <br /> the information to track exactly how the data is manipulated as it is translated from raw <br /> input data to the resultant impact on the river. While this protocol is subordinate to any <br /> decreed language addressing specific accounting requirements, it generally addresses <br /> the minimum requirements of such accounting. <br /> The accounting must use the standard convention where a depletion is "negative" and <br /> an accretion or other replacement source is "positive". The sum of the impacts will then <br /> result in either a "negative" or "positive" impact on the stream. <br /> Wells in plans that have a negative stream impact must provide additional replacement <br /> water, curtail pumping or both until the impact is no longer negative. Plans with a <br /> negative stream impact that fail to curtail pumping will be ordered to stop pumping until <br /> such time as the projected impact of the wells is no longer negative. <br /> 1. Accounting must be submitted electronically to the water commissioner (call 970- <br /> 352-8712 to obtain email address) and division engineer at <br /> Div1Accounting@state.co.us within 30 days of the end of the month for which the <br /> accounting is being submitted. <br /> 2. The accounting must provide the contact information including name and <br /> address for: <br /> a. the owner(s) of each well <br /> b. the person responsible for submitting the accounting <br /> c. the plan administrator and/or the plan attorney. <br /> 3. All input data must be in one location, such as an "Input" worksheet, etc. The <br /> accounting must show all pumping. Input data includes the information listed <br /> below. <br /> a. The required input data for each well is: <br /> i. the monthly meter reading for wells that use a presumptive <br /> depletion factor (PDF) to determine the associated consumptive <br /> use (CU); or <br /> ii. the monthly CU in acre-feet (AF) for wells that have a decree or <br /> approved SWSP that allows the wells to use a water balance <br /> methodology to determine the CU of the well. The analysis used <br /> to determine the CU must be included with the accounting. <br /> iii. Wells that are decreed as an alternate point of diversion <br /> (APOD) to a surface water right must report pumping on a daily <br /> basis if any of the diversion during the month is claimed as being <br /> "in priority". (See Administration Protocol—APOD Wells for more <br /> details.) <br /> Administration Protocol -Augmentation Plan Accounting <br /> Revised March 19, 2009 <br />