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4 <br />wells. The plan was approved in June of 2003. This group was <br />composed of former members of GASP. <br /> <br />• In 2004, Central WCD established the Well Augmentation Subdistrict <br />(WAS) which included the above 380 wells and 61 additional wells <br />for a total of 441 wells. A SWSP was approved for the Central WAS <br />in April of 2004. <br /> <br />• In June of 2005, the Central WAS plan was approved for 445 wells. <br /> <br />• In April of 2006, Central WAS petitioned the Water Court to postpone <br />a trial on its augmentation plan that was set for May 8, 2006 to <br />February of 2007. Judge Klein agreed but only after the many <br />objectors who had appealed the approval of the 2003 and 2004 <br />SWSP’s were allowed to have a hearing beginning on May 8 to show <br />how the operation of SWSP’s had injured their water rights. <br /> <br />• In 2006, Central WAS initially submitted a request for approval of a <br />SWSP with a proposed pumping quota of 20 percent of average <br />pumping and with a projected annual call period of 70 percent of the <br />year. Based on an annual call of only 70 percent, Central WAS <br />projected junior diversions to storage and recharge could provide <br />almost 5,700 acre-feet of replacement water (approximately 50 <br />percent of total replacement water in the plan). The 70 percent annual <br />call period also reduced the amount of out-of-priority depletions that <br />needed to be replaced. After considerable review in April, a <br />preliminary decision was reached by State Engineer staff that based <br />on the above average April 1 snowpack, the plan may work if the <br />number of days of “no call” were reasonable. This would allow the <br />WAS plan to store water under a junior water right in a lined gravel <br />pit (2,359 acre-feet of storage was initially projected for the Shores <br />Pit. Later information revealed only 1,500 acre-feet of storage <br />volume was available and the liner for the pit had yet to complete a <br />test to ensure it did not leak) and to use some recently completed <br />recharge sites. A reduction in the number of days of “no call” <br />required Central WAS to seek to obtain additional replacement <br />sources. At that time, some leases still had not been signed and State <br />Engineer was waiting on these when the May 1 snowpack information <br />became available. That information showed that the snowpack had <br />declined to well below average and Central’s projected number of