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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 />