BOARD00185 ‎(2)‎

• Board Meeting Date: 5/23/2007
• Description: Intrastate Water Management and Development Section - Water Supply Reserve Account Applications for Grants
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Water Supply Reserve Account - Grant Application Form
Form Revised October 2006 I
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Water Availability and Sustainability - this infonnation is heeded to assess the viability and
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effectiveness of the water project or activity. Please provide a description of each water supply source
to be utilized for, or the water body to be affected by, the Jater activity. For water supply sources
being utilized, describe its location, yield, extent of development, and water right status. For water
bodies being affected, describe its location, extent of develbpment, and the expected effect of the water
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activity on the water body, in either case, the analysis should take into consideration a reasonable
range of hydrologic variation. Attach additional sheets as !needed.
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This particular water project involves the applicant's I Municipal Water System No.2, Town of
Silver Cliff, adjudicated by Decree of the District Water Court dated September 29, 1972 in Case
W-551 for 1.0 cfs of water with an appropriation date lof June 27, 1969, located in Custer County
at a point in a seepage area in the SW Y4 SW Y4 Sectiort 20, Township 22 South, Range 72 West of
the 6th Principal Meridian, at a point whence the northwest corner of said Section 20 bears N 03
deg 24 min 13 sec W a distance of 4774.30 feet. i

This is a conditional decree most recently confirmed in Case Number 02CW68 by decree on
March 5, 2003 in District Court, Water Division 2'11 Colorado. The decree in Case 02CW68
extended the conditional water right to March 2009.

Although this is a junior appropriation, the District tb.s received judicial approval of a plan for
augmentation to allow diversions at this location. A fihal decree was entered November 28, 2006,
in Water Case 02CWl86 by Dennis Maes, Water Jddge, District Court Water Division No.2,
Colorado, in which approval was granted for chang6s of water rights historically used out of
Macey Creek on the Johnson Place located in Custer :County, Colorado about six miles south of
Westcliffe. In Case 02CW186, the applicant's Municipal Water System No 2, Town of Silver
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Cliff, became an alternate point of diversion for senior water rights out of Macey Creek with
appropriation dates ranging from May 15, 1872 to JunJ 10, 1888.
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Out-of-priority depletions at Municipal Water Systek No.2 may now be replaced by direct
stream releases from the Johnson Place or by release~ from the existing DeWeese Reservoir or
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from the Benoni Jarvis Reservoir (yet to be constructe1).

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The applicant's Municipal Water System No.2 was originally developed by constructing an
underground collection pipe 12 inches in diameter, bUried approximately 15 feet deep, having a
gradient of 0.001 feet per foot and a length of 496 feet. Since then a water pipeline easement has
been secured from the decreed point of diversion to th~ existing District water distribution system
in Silver Cliff, Colorado. An alternate pipeline routei from the decreed point of diversion to the
existing distribution system in Westcliffe is also availkble via the road rights of way through the
recently approved Shining Mountain Subdivision. I
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The next phase of improvement, and the putpose of ~is grant application, is to further develop
this water source by securing an electrical supply, obtaining a well permit, and constructing a
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production well with building, pump, and treatment. I

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