HYDRO29956 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

2 extraction operations relative to determining loss and replenishment o exposed groundwater, this 'Theatre' is a viable limit within which the applic tion of a Master Temporary Substitute Supply Plan can be reasonably establish d. The Theatre comprises roughly 100 square miles, but is more precise y defined by the watersheds that future extraction activities may potentially i pact, or require mitigation of those impacts. The systems are contained ithin the boundary of Weld County, as defined predominantly by that stretch of St. Vrain Creek starting from the Boulder/Weld County Line, and running East- ortheast to Wildcat, Colorado (located immediately Southwest of the conflue a of St. Vrain Creek and the South Platte River]; and, that portion of Boul r Creek nearest the confluences of Idaho Creek and Rural Ditch, runni North- Northeast to St. Vrain Creek. PURPOSES: ~ The impacts of future extraction on these tributaries is difficult to pro ect. The Master Plan will not attempt to forecast this. Rather, the plan will set in lace the mechanism by which each site specific impact could be integrate into a previously approved system of management, accounting, reporting, an delivery utilizing established 'wet' water resources set aside in trust in antici ation of future extraction activities. All future extraction will be restricted in its p tential to expose groundwater by the amount of water held in trust and ova table as substitute supply to replenish evaporative loss. Whether an Individual [site specific] or Master'plan,' a substantial amou t of time will be required to develop, submit, review and approve any such 'pl n.' This burden of time is the invisible enemy and source of much conflict r lative to integrating the diverse interests involved in resource recovery and prote tion. It should be remembered that aggregate recovery is deserving of protectlo~. Weld County has incorporated into its Comprehensive Plan, in complia ce with Colorado Revised Statutes (Section 34-1-305, 1995): "Access to future mineral resource development areas should considered in all land use decisions in accordance with Color State Law. No Weld County governmental authority which I control over zoning shall, by zoning, rezoning, granting a varian or other official action or inaction, permit the use of any area kno to contain a commercial mineral deposit in a manner which wo interfere with the present or future extraction of such deposit by extractor." Wednesday 5 March 1997 Letter of Intent to Form a Master Temporary Substitute Suppl Plan for the Colorado Office of the State Engineer and Varra Companies, Inc.