C150150 Contract

• Contract/PO #: C150150
• Contractor Name: Lower Arkansas Water Management Association
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 67
• County: Bent
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Contract Documents

the Colorado Water District No. 67 ditches' entitlement to
conversation storage in the reservoir.

B. Seller also owns the 1400 acres of Land historically irrigated by the
Keesee Water Rights, as generally shown on Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein
by reference (hereinafter referred to as the "Land"). '

C. The Keesee Water Rights are subject to a pending application, as
amended, for change of water rights, filed by Seller in District Court, Water Division 2, in Case
No. 82CW130 (hereinafter referred to as the "Change Application"); which application seeks to
change the place and type of use and to adjudicate certain exchanges to storage of the Keesee
Water Rights.

D. Purchaser desires to purchase from Seller one-half ('h) of the Keesee
Water Rights (he.reiiiafterfeferred to as the "Water Rights") described as follows:

1. Four and one-half cubic feet per second (4.5 cfs) of a total of nine
cubic feet per second (9 cfs) decreed to the Keesee Ditch by the
. Bent County District Court on July I, 1895 in the original
adjudication proceeding in Water District No. 67, with an
appropriation date of March 13, 1871 representing Priority No. I in
the Water District No. 67.

2. Two and one-quarter cubic feet per second (2.25 cfs) of a total of
four and one-half cubic feet per second (4.5 cfs) decreed to the
Keesee Ditch by the Bent County District Court on July I, 1895 in
the original adjudication proceeding in Water District No. 67, with
an appropriation date of December 31, 1883 representing Priority
No.4 in the Water District No. 67.

3. Seven and one-half cubic feet per second (7.5 cfs) of a total of
fifteen cubic feet per second (15 cfs) decreed to the Keesee Ditch
by the Bent County District Court on October 14, 1918 with an
appropriation date of September 3,1893.

4. One-half ('h) of Sellers right, title and interest, including contract
rights, to the Keesee storage account in John Martin Reservoir
arising under the 1980 Operating Plan for John Martin Reservoir,
which plan was adopted as a Resolution of the Arkansas River
Compact Administration on April 24, 1980 and amended on May
10, 1984 and December 11, 1984. Under the 1980 Operating Plan
for John Martin Reservoir, the Keesee storage account is allotted
2.30% of the Colorado Water District No. 67 ditches' entitlement
to conversation storage in the reservoir.

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