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Consent Agenda Item l.e Case No. 5-07CW128 Application of Ranch at Roaring Fork Home Owners Ass'n and Richard J. and Shirley M. Hunt Application Summary This is an application for surface and storage water rights, a change of water right, and approval of a plan for augmentation for the Ranch at Roaring Fork Development near Carbondale in Garfield County. Applicants seek the following: 1. Water rights for ponds and streams with an appropriation date of January 10, 1996. The claimed amount is 100 acre-feet. Application does not specify if the rights sought are conditional or absolute. 2. Change of water right for the Patterson Ditch. The Ditch historically ilTigated the land currently developed. While the proposed change is not clear in the application, it appears the water and historic consumptive use credits will be used to fill the pond and for augmentation of evaporative losses. 3. Approval of a plan for augmentation to replace out-of-priority depletions associated with evaporative losses from the ponds and streams. The sources of augmentation are dry-up irrigation consumptive use credits and releases from Green Mountain and Ruedi Reservoir under a contract with the Basalt Water Conservancy District. CWCB Appropriation The CWCB has appropriated the following instream flow water right that could be injured by this application: CWCB Stream/Lake Amount Approp. Watershed County Case No. ( cfs ) Date 5-85CW639 Roaring Fork River 6/1.5 11/27/90 Roaring Fork Garfield Potential for Iniurv The Applicants' proposed plan for augmentation may injure the Board's instream flow water rights on the Roaring Fork River by not replacing out-of-priority depletions in time, place and amount. The Applicants' proposed change of water right may result in an expansion of use that could injure the Board's instream flow water rights on the Roaring Fork River. Other Obiectors The State and Division Engineers and Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Company also filed statements of opposition to this application.