Opinion ID: 2823795
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Heading: The 2012 Annual Replacement Plan

Text: Â¶9Â Â Â Â Â Â The Subdistrict filed its 2012 ARP with the water court and submitted it to the State Engineer for review on April 13, 2012. The State Engineer determined that the 2012 ARP sufficiently identified sources, availability, and amounts of replacement water to remedy injurious depletions and approved the 2012 ARP on May 1, 2012. Â¶10Â Â Â Â Â Â Two aspects of the 2012 ARP are relevant to this appeal. First, the 2012 ARP identified 2500 acre-feet of Closed Basin Project production as a source of replacement water. The ARP noted that the projected production of the Closed Basin Project to be delivered to the Rio Grande during 2012 was 11,500 acre-feet of water and that the Rio Grande Water Users Association Board of Directors passed a motion to allocate, on a one-time basis, up to 2500 acre-feet of that water to replace injurious depletions under the 2012 ARP. Second, the 2012 ARP included a comprehensive list of Subdistrict wells but did not provide a separate list of augmentation plan wells or otherwise identify within its comprehensive list which wells were covered by augmentation plans; moreover, it included the pumping from augmentation plan wells for purposes of calculating total groundwater consumption within the Subdistrict.