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<br />residential and commercial growth. Our support to
<br />the City has included permitting a new, mitigated
<br />surface water right for municipal supply; adding
<br />the City's wells as points of withdrawal to the City
<br />of Bingen water rights, enabling the City to deliver
<br />water to Bingen under their water rights (rather than
<br />charging deliveries to the City's rights); transferring
<br />an existing surface water right to the state trust water
<br />right program and creating the White Salmon Water
<br />Bank, which acts as a source of mitigation for other
<br />City water rights; completing a feasibility study,
<br />pilot testing, and permitting of an Aquifer Storage
<br />and Recovery (ASR) program; and completing a
<br />feasibility study of potential new surface water and
<br />groundwater sources that included evaluation of
<br />hydrogeologic, engineering, and regulatory issues.
<br />Water Rights and Water Banking Support -
<br />Methow Valley Irrigation District I Twisp, WA
<br />Aspect has been assisting MVID with creating a
<br />public water bank to improve irrigation reliability,
<br />serve additional lands, provide for municipal water
<br />use forthe Town of Twisp, and improve instream
<br />flows in the Twisp and Methow Rivers. The water
<br />bank will rely on existing seasonal irrigation water
<br />rights to the Trust Water Rights program. Aspect's
<br />facilitation has involved contentious stakeholder
<br />meetings, regulatory agency coordination, water right
<br />permitting, and SEPA coordination, leading to the
<br />consensus implementation of a $10 million project to
<br />upgrade MVID's canal system and exchange its surface
<br />sources for wells. Aspect also facilitated a series of
<br />meetings between MVID, Town of Twisp, and OCR to
<br />successfully negotiate the purchase and transfer of
<br />138 acre-feet of water under the project, reconfigure
<br />an existing lease agreement, develop a new water
<br />service contract, and obtain appropriate permitting
<br />authorizations to implement the deal.
<br />Also, Aspect is leading a first of its kind streamlined
<br />water right certification process. Aspect is working
<br />with the MVID to assist the them and 60+ individual
<br />Members with the assignment of a portion of the
<br />MVID's groundwater permit to its Members. Aspect's
<br />Certified Water Rights Examiners are assisting these
<br />Members in completion and submission of the
<br />Washington State Department of Ecology's "Proof
<br />of Appropriation of Water" form, and Certified
<br />Water Right Examination Reports. To streamline
<br />this process, Aspect circulated well -user guides,
<br />information packets on data collection, and is holding
<br />member work sessions to facilitate rapid completion.
<br />Icicle Sitrategyg Watershed Plsnni!ng
<br />Services - Chelan
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<br />As the next phase of watershed planning in the
<br />Wenatchee Basin, the Icicle Strategy includes
<br />planning, permitting, capital infrastructure
<br />development, and public outreach/facilitation
<br />services to ensure sustainable water supply and
<br />water resources for people, farms, and fish in the
<br />Wenatchee Basin. Aspect has worked closely with
<br />Chelan County to develop an integrated plan to
<br />meet instream and out -of -stream needs, focusing
<br />first on the Icicle Basin where stakeholder litigation
<br />has delayed on -the -ground solutions. Aspect's
<br />role encompasses civil and hydraulic engineering,
<br />planning and economic evaluations, cost estimating
<br />and construction oversight, evaluation of the natural/
<br />physical environment, and project management.
<br />A key element of this work has been the formation
<br />and facilitation of a policy advisory group forthe
<br />Icicle Basin, the Icicle Workgroup (IWG), which
<br />consists of approximately 30 stakeholders, many
<br />of whom are participating as a parallel track to
<br />ongoing litigation in hope that issues can be resolved
<br />collaboratively. The IWG consists of stakeholders from
<br />local, state, and federal government, tribes, farmers
<br />and municipalities, and non-profit groups interested
<br />in developing projects to improve both instream
<br />and out -of -stream needs in the basin. Aspect
<br />helped form the IWG and has provided ongoing
<br />facilitation and technical support for the past three
<br />years for the IWG and subcommittees. Aspect led a
<br />Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement and
<br />feasibility studies ranging from conservation to pump
<br />exchanges, surface to groundwater storage, and
<br />automation to optimization.
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<br />Aspect successfully negotiated a water right division
<br />amongst several different landowners with two
<br />different priority date water rights. Following division,
<br />a portion of the senior claim was transferred to
<br />instream flow and mitigation for out -of -priority
<br />uses using site-specific crop irrigation requirements
<br />(CTRs), providing suitable mitigation for the fish -
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