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Ms. Brent Kerr <br />April 16, 2007 <br />Page 5 <br />13. The name, mailing address, and phone number of the contact person who will be <br />responsible for operation and accounting of this plan must be indicated on the <br />accounting forms provided to the Division Engineer and Water Commissioner. <br />14. Dewatering at this site will produce delayed depletions to the stream system. As long <br />as the pit is continuously dewatered, the water returned to the stream system should <br />be adequate to offset the depletions attributable to the dewatering operation. Once <br />dewatering at the site ceases, the delayed depletions must be addressed. <br />Accordingly, dewatering is required to continue during the term of this approval. At <br />least three years prior to completion of dewatering, a plan must be submitted that <br />specifies how the post pumping dewatering depletions (including refilling of the pit) will <br />be replaced in time, place and amount. <br />15. If dewatering of the site is discontinued, the pit would fill creating additional depletions <br />to the stream system due to increased evaporation. To assure that additional <br />depletions to the river do not occur, 34 shares of the Bona Fide Ditch have been <br />dedicated to this plan and will be made appurtenant to the tract of land where the <br />gravel pit is located, until a permanent augmentation plan for the gravel pit has been <br />adjudicated or all consumptive use at the site has ceased and all lagged depletions <br />have been replaced. <br />16. The amount and location of the dry-up of the irrigated acreage associated with the <br />Applicant's 4.42 cfs of the Bona Fide Ditch, Priority No. 1 must be documented and <br />approved by the Division Engineer and Water Commissioner before any consumptive <br />use credits are available for use under this plan. A map and legal description of the <br />dry-up must be submitted to the Water Commissioner, Division Engineer and the State <br />Engineer as part of the documentation process. <br />17. Applicant will inspect all parcels of dried up land used to generate augmentation <br />credits during the irrigation season to verify dry-up. The final verification of dry up will <br />be in the form of an affidavit signed by an individual having personal knowledge of the <br />dry up for this year's entire irrigation season for each parcel of land used in this <br />SWSP. All affidavits must be provided to the Division Engineer by November 15, 2007 <br />in order that the final determination of augmentation credits for the irrigation season <br />can be made along with mapping showing any revisions to the dry up acreage. Credit <br />from any dry-up fields containing alfalfa or native grass will be assessed in the <br />following manner: <br />(a) For fields deep tilled or chemically treated to successfully kill alfalfa or native <br />grass, 100% credit will be given for consumptive use as otherwise computed <br />under the conditions of this approval. <br />(b) For fields not deep tilled or chemically treated to successfully kill alfalfa, records <br />of monthly monitoring of depth to groundwater at existing irrigation wells or <br />existing or new monitoring wells or piezometers within '/.-mile of each alfalfa or <br />native grass field must be maintained. Credits will be reduced according to the <br />following table when depth to groundwater is less than the depth assumed to <br />provide no significant contribution tc alfalfa growth. Measurements taken at the <br />