WSP10966

• File Number: 8449.900
• Description: Bear Creek
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Date: 10/10/1986
• Author: Evergreen Metro Dist
• Title: Preliminary Plan of Operation for Evergreen Metropolitan District - Bear Creek Reservoir
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Plan to Make-Up Evaporation Losses.

The Evergreen Metropolitan

District owns five shares of Pioneer Union Ditch water.

Water

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available to these water rights could be used to make-up the loss

of 42.9 acre-feet per year attributed to Evergreen's share of the

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storage.

These water rights were historically used on the Robert

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Desserich farm to irrigate 40 acres in Section 27, Range 69 West,

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Township 4 South, as shown on Figure 1.

The shares were used to

irrigate corn, alfalfa, and pasture grass.

Records of diversions

and information obtained from Mr. Desserich were used to compute

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the consumptive use of irrigation water using the 1949 through

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1967 period.

The calculated average historic consumptive use by

the five shares of pioneer Union Ditch is shown on Table 2.

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Table 2

Credits of Consumptive Use and Make-Up of Evaporation Losses
Bear Creek Reservoir

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Wtr.
Ditch

Evap. To Be Made
Up By EMD
(A.F. )

C.U. of Irrig.
5 Shares of P.U.
____--1~.F. )

0.0
0.0
0.0
1.9
5.9
14.1
16.3
14.8
5.7
2.5
0.0
0.0

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Month

-0.2
0.0
0.0
1.6
4.1
7.7
9.5
8.9
6.3
3.4
1.2
0.4

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Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sep t
Oct
Nov
Dee

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Total

61. 2

42.9

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Credits
To Be
Stored
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0.2
0.0
0.0
0.3
1.8
6.4
6.8
5.9
-0.6
-0.9
-1.2
-0.4

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