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[email protected] and include the phrase “Digital Documents” in your subject heading. To view other documents please visit the WRDS Library online at: http://library.wrds.uwyo.edu Mailing Address: Water Resources Data System University of Wyoming, Dept 3943 1000 E University Avenue Laramie, WY 82071 Physical Address: Wyoming Hall, Room 249 University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 Phone: (307) 766-6651 Fax: (307) 766-3785 Funding for WRDS and the creation of this electronic document was provided by the Wyoming Water Development Commission (http://wwdc.state.wy.us) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY WELL CONSTRUCTION AND TESTING SPLIT ROCK GROUNDWATER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT May 23, 2008 Project #: 418-002-001 SUBMITTED BY: Trihydro Corporation 1252 Commerce Drive, Laramie, WY 82070 SUBMITTED TO: Wyoming Water Development Commission 6920 Yellowtail Road, Cheyenne, WY 82002 ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS. ADVANCING BUSINESS. HOIII.Olllce I 1252 Commerce Drive I laramie, WV 8207(} I phone 307/145.1414 I lax 301fi4S.1729 I www.trihydro.(om INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT In November 2001, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted a joint settlement between the states of Wyoming and Nebraska that resolved almost 15 years of litigation over the waters of the North Platte River drainage. The Joint Settlement Agreement was framed in terms of a modification to the 1945 Decree, or the Modified Decree. The Modified Decree places new restrictions on irrigation diversions from groundwater wells, tributaries, and drains with a priority date after 1945, in an area downstream from the Whalen Diversion Dam, near Fort Laramie, Wyoming.