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ADMINISTRATION PROTOCOL <br />Alternate Point of Diversion Wells <br />Division One — South Platte River <br />This document outlines the actions alternate point of diversion (APOD) well operators <br />must take in order for the Division of Water Resources to administer the wells. For the <br />purposes of this protocol, a well is an APOD if and only if it is decreed as such to a <br />surface water right. This protocol is subordinate to any contradicting decreed language <br />addressing specific wells. <br />In -priority Diversions <br />1. APOD wells must record all diversions on a daily basis, just like a ditch. (This, <br />inherently, requires that the well is equipped with at least a totalizing flow meter.) <br />2. APOD wells may divert water under the surface water right only on days the surface <br />water right is in priority' and the water commissioner has approved the diversion. <br />(The total diversions from the head gate and all associated APODs must not exceed <br />the decreed limits of the surface water right .2) <br />3. APOD diversions made in accordance with condition 2 are effectively "in priority" and <br />do not require augmentation. Such diversions, therefore, should not be included as <br />out -of -priority diversions in any associated augmentation plan accounting for the <br />well. <br />4. Accounting must be submitted to the water commissioner by email as frequently as <br />requested by the water commissioner but, at a minimum, within 30 days of the end of <br />the month the diversion is made. The accounting must show all individual well <br />diversions and must differentiate between in -priority and out -of -priority diversions on <br />a daily basis.3 <br />Multiplying the total monthly pumping by the percentage of time the APOD <br />right was "in -priority" during the month is not acceptable. The APOD right <br />must be operated in exactly the same manner as the surface water right, which <br />requires a daily analysis and accounting. <br />Out -of -priority Diversions <br />5. Diversions made by the well that, in combination with all other diversions by the <br />surface water right, exceed the decreed flow of the surface water right or made when <br />the surface water right is out -of -priority are out -of -priority diversions. <br />6. All out -of -priority diversions must be covered by and included in a plan for <br />augmentation or substitute water supply plan. <br />7. Excess water available pursuant to the surface water right and APOD decrees <br />cannot be used to cover other diversions or depletions occurring in the plan for <br />augmentation without the specific authority of a decree or substitute water supply <br />plan to do so. <br />' The surface water right is "in priority" whenever there is no "call' for water that is senior to the <br />subject right from a location downstream of the decreed head gate location. "Call' data can be <br />retrieved from the Colorado Division of Water Resources website: http://water.state.co.us/. <br />2 As an example, a surface water right is decreed for 10 cfs and has 5 APOD wells. The ditch <br />diverts 8 cfs and the 5 wells divert 1 cfs, each. Only 2 cfs of the well diversions are in priority; the <br />remaining 3 cfs must be included in a plan of augmentation. <br />3 Failure to comply with reporting requirements may result in an order to install a data logger on <br />the well. <br />Administration Protocol - APOD Wells <br />Revised December 27, 2007 <br />