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Consent Agenda Item l.a <br />Case No. 5-07CW196: Application of Sopris Mountain Ranch Homeowners Association <br />Application Summary <br />This is an application for a change of water rights in Pitkin County, approximately 6 miles south <br />west of Basalt. The Applicant seeks to change the type and place of use of portions of the Sloss <br />Ditch, Buffalo Ditch Nos. 1 through 7, Highland No.2 Ditch, and Pearson Ditch water rights, <br />currently decreed for irrigation use to also allow alternate uses for fire protection, stock watering, <br />aesthetic, piscatorial, recreation, and augmentation uses. The proposed changes include alternate <br />points of diversion for the Sloss Ditch, as well as changing the rights from direct flow to include <br />storage in existing and future ponds and landscape irrigation of existing lots and future areas within <br />the Sopris Mountain Ranch. <br />CWCB Appropriation <br />The CWCB holds the following instream flow water rights that could be injured by this application: <br />CWCB <br />Case No. Stream/Lake Amount <br />(cfs) Approp. <br />Date Watershed County <br />5-76W2939 West Sopris Creek 3 1/14/76 Roaring Fork River Pitkin <br />5-78W2720 Sopris Creek 5 1/14/76 Roaring Fork River Pitkin <br />5-85CW639 Roaring Fork River 145/75 11/8/85 Roaring Fork River Pitkin <br />Potential for Injury <br />The Applicant's proposed changes of water rights may result in an expansion of use that could <br />injure the Board's instream flow water rights on West Sopris Creek, Sopris Creek and the Roaring <br />Fork River. <br />Other Objectors <br />Middle Ranch, LLC and Twin Lakes Reser~~oir and Canal Company also filed Statements of <br />Opposition to this application. <br />