The Ground-Water Banking Project will look at questions of administration and operation:

• How do we deal with the "leaky vault" (water stored in the aquifer eventually finds its way to rivers)?

• How are prices set?

• What units are accounted?
  • Dollars?
  • Acre Feet?
  • Cubic Feet per Second?

• Where and when are the units accounted?
  • At the time and place of recharge/mitigation?
  • At the time of use or withdrawl?

• What constitutes a deposit?
  • Physical recharge of "wet" water?
  • Foregoing use of water that otherwise would have been pumped?
  • Supplying replacement water for a ground-water use that otherwise would have been pumped?
  • Creating excess mitigtation as part of a water-right transfer or permit application?

• What constitutes a withdrawl?
  • Pumping of ground water?
  • Directing that increased river gains be delivered or dedicated to a certain place and use?
  • Mititgation for a new or existing ground water use?

• How does ground-water accounting relate to surface-water accounting and delivery?

• Who is eligible to make deposits? Withdrawls?

• What can withdrawn water be used for?

• Should there be preferences for particular classes or locations of water use?

• Some water banks allow withdrawal in advance of recharge (effectively a "loan"). Should this be allowed in the Snake Plain Aquifer Banking system?

• How do we verify that the water actually went where we said it would?