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Recharge Credits and Accounting
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CAP Delivery to SRP |
All recharge permit holders are required to file
annual
reports with ADWR
(even when they did not store or recover any water during the
year). The information compiled from these reports includes
how much water was stored at each storage facility, how much
water was stored under each WS permit, and how much stored
water was recovered on an annual and long-term basis. ADWR
uses this information to update long-term storage credits.
When eligible water is stored underground for more than one
year, long-term storage credits may be issued.
Long-term Storage Credits are credits earned in the process of
storing water. These credits can be recovered in the future to
be used for various reasons, including establishing an Assured
Water Supply
or fulfilling replenishment obligations. Stored water is
usually eligible for long-term storage credits when:
- The water cannot reasonably be used directly, per A.R.S.
§
45-802.01(22) ;
and
- The water was not recovered on an annual basis; and
- The water would not have been naturally
recharged within an
AMA.
An entity that holds both long-term storage credits and the
water storage permit from which they were earned may always
recover the stored water from within the area of impact of the
water storage. Anyone holding long-term storage credits may
recover stored water from anywhere within the same AMA in
which it was stored, so long as:
- Recovery is consistent with the
management
plan and the
goals
of the AMA; and
- When recovery will occur inside or within three miles of the
service area of a city, town, private water company or
irrigation district, that city, town, private water company or
irrigation district is the person recovering the water or has
given consent to the recovery.
Stored water always maintains the legal character of the
original source water, regardless of where it is recovered or
how it is used. Thus, if CAP water is stored, no matter where
recovery occurs, the water is considered to be CAP water when
it is recovered and may be used in any way that CAP water
could be used.
A holder of long-term storage credits may assign by grant,
gift, sale, lease or exchange all or part of the holder’s
long-term storage credits, so long as the stored water would
have qualified for long-term storage credits had the assignee
stored the water.
A long-term storage account is an account established
pursuant to A.R.S. § 45-852.01.
Long-term storage credits generated through the storage of
water are held for the purpose of subsequent recovery.
The Arizona Revised Statutes regulate the accounting system
for the recharge program. ADWR has developed an equation for
determining each year how much water is available for recovery
using information reported to the Department on annual
reports. Each AMA maintains the long-term storage accounts
for permittees storing water in the AMA.
- When crediting water to a long-term storage account, the
Department may subtract evaporation, transpiration, and a
percent that is retained in the aquifer, pursuant to A.R.S. §
45-852.01.
- Any water recovered annually, transferred or assigned to
another person, or used to offset groundwater pumped in excess
of the storer’s per capita municipal conservation requirements
will not be credited to a long-term storage account.
- Credits:
The amount of each type of water discharged to a USF/delivered
to a GSF is verified. Losses (evaporation, transpiration,
overflow, outflow, etc.) are deducted. The cut to the aquifer
is deducted as 5% of the amount stored unless the stored water
was:
- Imported into the AMA through the efforts of the storer (0
cut);
- Stored outside an AMA and imported into a groundwater basin
through the efforts of the storer (0 cut);
- Effluent stored at a constructed USF (0 cut); or
- Effluent stored at a managed USF (50% cut)
The remaining amount is then posted to the storer’s/saver’s
long-term storage account. |
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