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year(s) of fallowing operations (“Remaining Consumptive Use Water”) may be exchanged to Pueblo Reservoir for delivery to Colorado Springs. Remaining Consumptive Use Water shall count <br /> against the contract limit in the year in which it was first exchanged and not against the contract limit for the year in which Remaining Consumptive Use Water is exchanged to Pueblo <br /> Reservoir for delivery to Colorado Springs. In addition, no more than 3,000 acre-feet of consumptive use water generated in three years of operations will be exchanged to Pueblo Reservoir <br /> for delivery to Colorado Springs during the term of the pilot project, though consumptive use water may be delivered during years when fallowing does not occur. All consumptive use <br /> water not delivered to Colorado Springs by the conclusion of the pilot project will be returned to the Arkansas River. <br />[Craig- Insert Table] <br />Deep percolation return flows for the Diamond A, Schweizer, Mameda, Groves, and Mayhoffer Farms will be lagged using the URFs attached in Appendix G, subject to revisions to the URFs <br /> as ordered by the Division Engineer’s Office. Return flows will be maintained via release of supplies available to Colorado Springs listed in [Table 9] or other fully consumable sources <br /> available to Colorado Springs for replacement of return flows. Transit losses will be assessed from the point of release to the confluence of the Arkansas River and/or Crooked Arroyo <br /> based on the augmentation station(s) in use for the Pilot Project. <br />[Potentially Insert Term and Condition regarding high groundwater after Martin and Wood analyzes issue] <br />Fallowed parcels must be at least ten acres in size unless they comprise all of an existing CDSS parcel that is already less than ten acres. Parcels that represent a portion of an existing <br /> field can only be split in the same direction of historic irrigation unless a means of physical separation is approved by the CWCB based on the written determination of the State Engineer. <br /> A physical separation must exist between any irrigated portion of a parcel and the dry-up portion. For dry-up fields left fallow or with a dry-land cover crop without permanent root <br /> system (that is, not alfalfa or pasture grass for example), the separation can be a ditch or tilled strip at least ten feet in width that prevents irrigation application from reaching <br /> the dry-up parcel. For partial fields containing deep-rooted crops such as alfalfa or pasture grass, a deep tilled separation of at least 25 feet must be maintained along with any ditches <br /> necessary to ensure no irrigation application to the dry-up portion. For any dry-up parcel that is planted with a dry-land crop (haygrazer, milo, millet, etc.), the crop should either <br /> be drilled at an angle to normal irrigation direction or a tilled strip maintained at the top of the field that clearly separates the crop from any possible irrigation source or both.