DWR_3825127

• Document Type - Guidance Documents: Protocol
• Topic: Water Administration
• Title: Division 1 - REVOKED South Platte River Administrative Protocol: Recharge
• Document Date: 10/1/2020

REVOKED 10/1/2020
ADMINISTRATION PROTOCOL
Recharge
Division One - South Platte River
The purpose of a "recharge structure" as referenced in this document is to introduce
water to the river alluvium that will result in accretions to a live stream. For the purposes
of this document, a recharge structure does not include a well that is used to artificially
recharge a Denver Basin bedrock aquifer. With that qualification, a recharge structure is
defined as:
A section of ditch, the losses from which can be reasonably modeled as a
single source of water.
A pond or group of ponds that receive water from the same delivery location
and can be reasonably modeled as a single source of water.
1. A written notification for each recharge structure must be provided to the water
commissioner and division engineer. The Division of esources will
not acknowledge any recharge activity conduct wit the knowledge of
the water commissioner. The notification must in u
a. a map showing the location of the struc a th case number of
the plan for augmentation authorize t e st c ure;
b. a map showing the location of the di rsio and the court case
number for the decree authoriz' t if any;
c. a map showing the locati formation for the metering
location;
d. the maximum water s a area the structure;
e. for ditch structur s, if t ditc is divided into more than one recharge
reach, an a how the volume diverted will be allocated to the
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various se ns.
2. Upon receivin otif' tion or decree by the water court, the division
engineerw' n cture a WDID number. The WDID number is the
identific n n er t will be used for the administration of the structure and
must be i correspondence and accounting reports. (For structures
that were in ded in a decreed plan for augmentation but were not
physically con ructed at the time of the decree, a written notification of the
intent to construct the structure must be provided.)
3. Any structure that intercepts groundwater must be permitted as a well and
included in a plan for augmentation or substitute water supply plan approved by
the state engineer. The division engineer strongly recommends avoiding
recharge structures that intercept groundwater, in order to simplify the accounting
process.
4. The flow into EVERY recharge structure MUST be metered and equipped with a
continuous flow recorder unless the water commissioner in conjunction with the
division engineer determines adequate records may be kept without such
equipment. If the recharge structure is designed to discharge water via a surface
outlet, such discharge must also be metered and equipped with a continuous
flow recorder. The water commissioner MUST approve the use of the recharge
structure BEFORE any credit will be given for water placed into recharge.
Administration Protocol - Recharge
Revised February 1, 2008