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<br />~ . <br /> <br />15. The Court finds that the description and uses of the water rights listed above in <br />paragraphs 12 and 13 are adequate to allow the use of the water for the augmentation <br />purposes proposed and approved in this Ruling and Decree. <br /> <br />16. Plan for Augmentation: <br /> <br />16.1. Corrections filed the Application in this case on February 28, 1997 and <br />posted notice thereof upon the property. By Order of the Referee dated August 4, <br />1998, the First Amended Application was accepted for filing which inter alia <br />authorized Parks to enter the case as a Co-Applicant. Resume Notice for both the <br />original and the First Amended Application were published as required by law. <br />During 1997, Corrections constructed Rifle Correctional Center Reservoir NO.1 <br />and utilized the reservoir in 1997, 1998 and 1999 to store and release, when <br />required, augmentation water. These public actions were sufficient to place <br />potentially interested parties on inquiry notice of the proposed extent of the <br />requested plan for augmentation. <br /> <br />16.2. The purpose of this plan for augmentation is to augment all of the <br />increased water uses by the Rifle Correctional Center and the Rifle Gap State Park <br />above the 13.7 acre-feet per year covered by the Plan for Augmentation decreed in <br />Case No. W-3758. <br /> <br />16.3. This augmentation plan covers the Applicants' right to make out-of- <br />priority diversions from the Rifle Gap State Recreational Area Well No.2, <br />including both the well presently existing and any wells drilled as replacements or <br />supplemental wells for the currently existing well above the 13.7 acre-feet per year <br />authorized by Case W-3758. Diversions through the well(s) for use at the <br />correctional facility have been considered 100% consumptive. The waste water <br />effluent will be evaporated and/or land applied on DOC lands. The lands onto <br />which the eftluent will be applied are a portion of the lands which have been <br />historically irrigated by the Heinze Ditch, comprising approximately 14.62 acres. <br />All of the domestic uses of water by Wildlife, Parks and at the campground are <br />covered by the augmentation plan approved in Case No. W-3758 and therefore, <br />have not been included in this augmentation plan. Park's irrigation of one acre has <br />been assumed to be 80% efficient and will provide small amounts of return flow to <br />the stream system. The diversions and depletions associated with the increased use <br />at the RCC facility above the amounts decreed in Case No. W-3758 are <br />summarized in Appendix I. <br /> <br />16.4. Rifle Gap State Recreational Area Well No.1 is no longer in use and is not <br />covered by this Ruling and Decree. <br /> <br />16.5. Rifle Gap St,ate Recreational Area Well No.2 will be used as part of this <br />augmentation plan and may withdraw up to a total of 32.9 acre-feet. This amount <br />includes, but is not limited to, the 13.7 acre feet authorized to be withdrawn under. <br />the W-3758 Decree. <br /> <br />10 <br />