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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />8. <br /> <br />There are significant amounts of water that have not been transferred out of several of the <br />Bear Creek ditches. The precise eventual fate of these water rights is not known at this time. <br />Some of the rights will continue to be used for irrigation while other water rights are likely to <br />be transferred either upstream and/or downstream for municipal or other uses. To be able <br />to run the Model, some reasonable assumptions are necessary. Those made for the Model are <br />as follows: <br /> <br />a. Hodgson Ditch. Priority No.9 is assumed to be abandoned. Priority No.3 has the first <br />call on the available water after the Simonton Ditch Priority No.2 whether this water right is <br />transferred upstream or is diverted at its present headgate. Based upon the records, 3.92 cfs <br />of Priority No.3 is either diverted by the ditch or has not been transferred to other points of <br />diversion in Water Court. <br /> <br />b. Warrior Ditch. At the time the Model was prepared, it was estimated that a total of 127 <br />shares out of 160 shares remained in the ditch, some ofwhich constitutes the 20 percent ditch <br />losses left in the ditch by other entities that had water transferred out of the ditch. It is <br />assumed that 63.5 shares would remain in the ditch for irrigation, and that the other 63.5 <br />shares would be used by Denver and other quasi-municipal uses. The terms and conditions <br />for the latter 63.5 shares would be similar to those imposed in Case No. 81CW104 which <br />involved 14 shares of the Warrior Ditch transferred by the Bear Creek Development <br />Corporation. The monthly volumetric limits could be as follows: <br /> <br />April <br />May <br />June <br />July <br />August <br />September <br />October <br /> <br />158 acre feet <br />340" " <br />386" , <br />386" , <br />386" , <br />318" , <br />250" " <br /> <br />c. Pioneer Union Ditch. For the Pioneer Union Ditch, at the time that the Model was <br />prepared, it was calculated that 54 shares our ofa total of80 shares remained in the ditch. For <br />the purpose of this Model run it is assumed that the terms and conditions for any transferred <br />water would be similar the Case No. W-8120-76 whereby 10 shares were transferred by the <br />Bear Creek Development Corporation. This limited the annual diversions of Priority Nos. 11 <br />and 15 to 100 acre feet/year. For the 54 shares, the annual diversion limit would be 540 acre <br />feet. <br /> <br />Hl5G <br /> <br />B9-026.00W <br /> <br />5 <br />