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In 2021, the Sustainable Water Augmentation Group, Inc. (“SWAG”) was formed as a Colorado non-profit corporation to develop a plan for augmentation for its members’ groundwater irrigation wells. SWAG’s 257 member wells irrigate 17,317 acres of cropland in the San Luis Valley. Due to ongoing drought and unsustainable groundwater use in the San Luis Valley, all well owners are under notice from the State Engineer’s Office of Colorado that they must reduce groundwater use for irrigation or cease pumping by the year 2031.

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Plan For the Future

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Plan #1

The Sustainable Water Augmentation Group, Inc. (SWAG) has purchased the 574-acre Shadow Ranch located six miles northwest of Del Norte, Colorado. The property includes two center pivot irrigation systems, senior water rights from the Atkins Ditch, junior water rights from Meadow Glen and Voss Seepage ditches, and one-half mile of prime river frontage along the Rio Grande River.

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Plan #2

The Gunbarrel Road Alamosa Farm property is located approximately six miles northeast of Center, Colorado, and contains over 6,000 acres of land of which most was recently irrigated and under production. In 2022, the SWAG group acquired a lease/purchase option on the property to continue to cease irrigation of the land to reduce groundwater pumping impacts to the Rio Grande River. This reduction in groundwater pumping would be a component of SWAG’s augmentation plan to reduce depletions to the shallow aquifer of the river.

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