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Kim Edwards South Platte Combined Replacement Plan October 23, 2007 Page 10 8. The applicant is seeking to claim credit for water returned to the stream system from dewatering in excess of the depletions caused by dewatering. Prior to claiming any credit for the water returned to the stream system from dewatering the applicant must install an adequate measuring device to measure the quantity of water being pumped for dewatering purposes. 9. Aggregate's Fulton Ditch augmentation station must be equipped with an adequate measuring device, specifically a Parshall Flume or similar device, acceptable to the Water Commissioner. The installation of any device used for measuring replacement water in this plan must be inspected by a Division 1 hydrographer. Furthermore, the exact location of all return structures utilized in this plan must be provided to the Division Engineer and Water Commissioner in order to allow for inspections of the structures. Finally, all charts or other output data associated with each measuring devices utilized in this plan must be provided in a timely manner acceptable to the Water Commissioner. 10. The Water Commissioners responsible for the administration of this plan are Robert Stahl, George Varra, Scott Edgar and Bob Carlson. The applicant shall maintain daily records of all diversions, replacements, and the amount of water used for each particular purpose. The applicant shall provide a report of these records to the division engineer and the water commissioners on a monthly basis on a form approved by them. The accounting must be submitted within thirty (30) calendar days of the end of the month for which the accounting is being made. Failure of the Applicant to provide timely accounting to the water commissioners may result in revocation of this SWSP. In addition, the aaalicant shall submit a report from each entity making replacements; for this plan, those entities are the City of Westminster, City of Thornton and Centennial Water and Sanitation District. The report shall include an accounting of all wastewater plant water effluent controlled by each entity, showing the total volume of water under its control at the various wastewater treatment plants, and the amount committed to each of the recipients of the water. The applicant has not been submitting the reports for the City of Westminster and the City of Thornton to the water commissioners. The applicant must submit the required reports to the water commissioners on a monthly basis. If the applicant does not submit the required reports the SWSP cannot be administered and credit for the released effluent will not be granted. 9. Aft releases of replacement water must be sufficient to cover all out of priority depletions and be made under the direction and/or approval of the Water Commissioner(s). 10. All parcels of dried up land used to generate augmentation credits will be inspected during the irrigation season to verify dry-up. The final verification of dry up will be in the form of an affidavit signed by an individual having personal knowledge of the dry up for this year's entire irrigation season for each parcel of land used in this SWSP. All affidavits must be provided to the division engineer by November 15, 2007 in order that the final determination of augmentation credits for the irrigation season can be made along with mapping showing any revisions to the dry up acreage. Credit from any dry-up fields containing alfalfa or native grass will be assessed in the following manner: (a) For fields deep tilled or chemically treated to successfully kill alfalfa or native grass, 100% credit wilt be given for consumptive use as otherwise computed under the conditions of this approval.