2005-11-28_HYDROLOGY - M2000002 (3)

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AUGMENTATION PLAN ACCOUNTING PROTOCOL Division of Water Resources Division One -Greeley This document addresses the accounting information and format that should be folknved for water court approved augmentation plans. l~cxeed augmentation plan requirements take precedence in the event of a cordlld between the requirements in the decree and this protocol. 1. The accounting must tie done using software such as Excel or Access, preferably Excel. During the initial review of the acxouMtng and/or when requested. the applicant wiU be required to subrrrit the actual Excel file used to perform the arxounting so that data relationships and formulas can be wrMrrned. 2. AcoounUrrg for wells that are decreed as alternate points of diversion to a surface water right mnat be done an a daly basis in order to substantiate when tt-e well is in or out of prioriy. For the purposes of augmentation plan accounting ony, the daily in prtor(ty altemata point yell diversions may simpy be shown as zero. The remaining out of Priority dairy diversions should then be used to determine the delayed depletions assodated with the wet operation. 3. Accounting for wells that are rr~O alternate points of div~sfon to a surface water right may be done on either a dairy or mouthy basis. If the rranthy basis is used, the vdume of water diverted for the entire month should be prorated to the number of days in the march and stxtwn es equal deity diversions. 4. Accounting reports must be submtted etedronicaly to the divisbn engineer at DivlAcoountinoCdistate.co.us within 30 days of the end of the month for which the accounting is being submitted. 5. Please use the following naming convention for at files submitted pursuant to -• - item 4: 'PlanPlame_Month Year Version'. As an example, the initial submission for the XYZ augmentation plan for Juy 2004 would be named 'XYZ July 2004 vl.xls'° H this aococertirg I.4 then amended, the amended ftle submitted would be named 'XYZ Juy 2004 v2.rds", eta Please put the nano of the file in the subject Ilns M the small. 6. At diversion infortnatlon for both wets and redrarge stnrdures must be reported using the W DID Tor the structure, at a mirrimum. Other infomwtion such ~ wet name, permit number, etc. can also be inducted based on the reporter's preference ~ a cross dx3dc to the WDID All welb must be either decreed by the Water Court or psrmkted by the DWlalon of Water Resources. Unregistered wells for whk:h there is no decree cannot, in the opinion o1 the Division Engineer, be effectivey administered because d the need to know the locatlon, allowable diversion rate and use of the wet; information that is ony avaflat>le from the decree or pemtiding process. 7. The accounting should have a single "Contact Information" sheet that shows the contact information for eadr wet. fiis sheet should slis2oomtaln tyre contact 8. The accarnUng should have a single table showing "Past Pumping Depletions" expelled due to previous operetions of ail the walls covered by the plan, itemized by wet. "'"" Augmentation Plan Accounting Protocol -Revised May 28, 2005