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<br />I <br />I. <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />Ie <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />Ie <br />I <br /> <br />2760 <br /> <br />11. WATER RIGHT - Rocky Ford Ditch (Otero County) <br /> <br />CASE NUMBER - 83CW18 (Water Division 2) <br /> <br />TOTAL ACRES - 8200 total acres <br /> <br />TOTAL MOVED - 58% of 208 d.s; 4100 acres <br /> <br />% MOVED - 58.3%; a maximum of 8250 ac. ft. consumptive <br /> <br />ACREAGE DRIED UP TO DATE - all 4100 acres subject to revegetation; approx 1/3 of <br />revegetation completed. <br /> <br />FROM - Resource Investment Group (investment company that had purchased from a <br />corporate farming group) and several individual irrigators. <br /> <br />TO - City of Aurora <br /> <br />DATE - Contract of sale 1983; Application 1983; water court decree 1988; first transfer of <br />water anticipated in 1993. <br /> <br />PRICE - $3000 per share 1988 <br /> <br />DECREED TERMS AND CONDITIONS - <br /> <br />- maintenance of drains and management of phreatophytes to maintain dry up <br /> <br />- diversion, March 15 to November 15 <br /> <br />- monthly flow and quantity limits <br /> <br />- continuing call <br /> <br />- compensation for increased ditch seepage losses <br /> <br />- revegetation requirement <br /> <br />- new flumes and gauges <br /> <br />- minimum stream flow requirement during exchange <br /> <br />- protections for intervening water rights and exchange rights <br /> <br />- abandonment of applicants part of junior decreed rights <br /> <br />- no transit credits <br /> <br />AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS. 4100 acres lost from production of alfalfa and other crops <br /> <br />A2-16 <br />