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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES
8.6.4 Long List of Future Water Use Opportunities
The long list of future water use opportunities compiled in the Basin Plan comprised 21
categories of projects. This list was reviewed by the BAG to produce the short list of water use
opportunities.
8.6.5 Revised Short List of Future Water Use Opportunities
The short list of opportunities developed in the Basin Plan was divided into structural and
nonstructural opportunities. The short lists are in alphabetical order, and not in order of preference or
importance.
Structural future water use opportunities include:
! CBM.
! Groundwater augmentation – non-hydrologically connected to North Platte River surface
water.
! Improving agricultural irrigation system efficiencies.
! Modification of Pathfinder Dam and Reservoir.
! Regionalization of public water supply systems.
! Reuse alternatives--stormwater capture, storage, treatment, and management; irrigation with
treated municipal wastewater; gray water irrigation; and municipal irrigation using untreated
water.
! Snow fences.
! Transbasin diversions.
! Upper Laramie River reregulation reservoir opportunities.
Nonstructural future water use opportunities include:
! Drought response planning.
! Enhancing recreational use of water reservoirs.
! Glendo Reservoir--use of uncontracted water in Wyoming’s allocation to Glendo Reservoir
storage.
! Increasing runoff from national forests based on modified U.S. Forest Service (USFS)
policies and practices.
! Multipurpose flood control programs.
! Projects for which the maximum WWDC contribution is 50 percent of all project costs or
$25,000, whichever is less.
! Projects that provide multiple benefits and have total estimated costs of not more than
$100,000.
! Utilization of WWDC’s small water project program.
! Water banking.
! Water conservation.
! Water exchanges.
! Water right transfers.
! Weather modification.
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