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Pau[ Noto <br />Aprit 10, 2020 <br />Page 2 of 5 <br />growing facilities on the Applicant's property as shown on the attached Figure 2. The spring <br />water is transported to the growing facilities by gravity -fed pipelines. <br />The Applicant will also be drilling 2 wells on the Ranch Land Development property, as shown <br />in the attached Exhibit D. The 2 wells and the Clevenger Red Creek Spring will be held to a <br />cumulative, annual volumetric limit of 10 acre-feet. When these wells are drilled there will <br />be a separate Glover analysis for each well at their drilled locations. <br />The growing facilities during this plan period will consist of an existing single family <br />residence, two support and extraction buildings (15,000 ft2 per building), eight (8) greenhouse <br />buildings (8,400 ft' per building), and 50 acres of outdoor marijuana growing space. Water <br />used for the grow operations will be supplied from indoor drip irrigation and outdoor hand <br />watering methods, and there will be no flood irrigation requirements. This SWSP is intended <br />to cover stream depletions caused by spring diversions and potentially well diversions for <br />commercial drinking and sanitary facilities and irrigation use of up to 10 acre-feet/year. <br />Projected water demands from the Clevenger Red Creek System and potentially the 2 wells <br />under this SWSP are shown in the attached Table 1. The commercial drinking and sanitary <br />water use is expected to total 0.33 acre-feet/year and the irrigation water use for the <br />Applicant's grow operation is expected to total 7.55 acre-feet/year for irrigation of <br />approximately 10,750 marijuana plants. Spring water will be delivered to the grow facilities <br />via an existing gravity -fed pipeline from Red Creek Spring, and will be stored in eight tanks <br />located near the grow facilities. For the purpose of this SWSP, any water diverted from the <br />spring for commercial drinking and sanitary use and irrigation use will be assumed to be 100% <br />consumptive and to cause instantaneous depletions to Red Creek in the vicinity of the SW 1/4 <br />of the NW 1/4, Section 35, Township 20 South, Range 68 West, Sixth P.M.; therefore, stream <br />depletions under this SWSP are expected to total 8.22 acre-feet/year. However, the Applicant <br />intends to cover maximum depletions of up to 10 acre-feet/year based on the amount of <br />replacement water that has been secured. <br />Depletions from the proposed 2 wells have been calculated using a Glover analysis and the <br />following parameters: <br />Transmissivity: 1,347 gpd/ft <br />Storage coefficient: 1 X 10-4 <br />Distance to river: 32,970 feet <br />Distance to boundary: 95,303 feet <br />The transmissivity value used was adjusted for the influence of the Rush Creek fault, which <br />was considered to impede the flow at that location. The calculations showed a 174 month <br />14.5 years) tag time to achieve 95% of the total depletion.