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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 3.1.2 Selected Alternative And Proposed Project 3.1.2.1 General Description The proposed project is the purchase of an undivided one-third interest in the Pine River Weminuche Pass Ditch (AKA Fuch' s Ditch) water rights which total 18cfs. See Table 3- 1 below. John A. Weaver, 557 Crestview Drive, Village Brook, Livingston, Texas 77351, currently owns one-third ('i'3) of the water rights which he has offered to sell to the District. The Pine River Weminuche Ditch diverts water from the Rio Los Pinos, a tributary of the San Juan River in Hindsdale County, Water Division NO.7 and delivers it to the Rio Grande Basin in Water Division NO.3. The District currently owns one-half (1/2) or 9cfs interest in the Ditch. This transmountain ditch crosses the Continental Divide near the headwaters of the Rio Grande within the Weminuche Wilderness is shown in Figure 3-1. The additional one-third (13) or 6 cfs of the water rights the District intends to purchase with a loan from the CWCB will be added to the District's Augmentation Program through a new augmentation plan decree from the Water Division 3 Water Court. The decree will change the use of the water from irrigation uses in the Rio Grande Basin, to uses consistent with the augmentation needs of the District's Program and allow use of the water at locations and quantities described in the plan. The decree will be very similar to the District's augmentation decree approved in Water Court Case No. 94CW62, a copy of which is included in Appendix A for reference. The District operates its Augmentation Program by selling water right certificates to individuals or entities desiring a depletive water right for domestic or commercial purposes. The water right certificate is typically used to obtain a well permit or other authorized water use that consumptively uses water tributary to the Rio Grande. 3.1.2.2 Description and Yield of Water Rights The water rights diverted from the Rio Los Pinos were adjudicated by the District Court, La Plata County, Colorado, Case No. 1248-B, on March 7, 1966 for the irrigation of lands in Rio Grande County. The water rights included the following priorities: Table 3-1 Pine River Weminuche Pass Ditch Decreed Water Right Priorities Priority No. Appropriation Date Total Decreed Amount (c.f.s.) 1965-13 10/11/1934 6.00 1965-14 11/2/1934 6.00 1965-10 6/30/1936 6.00 E01662 9 ttJ SINCE ~"W1& .._. :'I!ii:. J9-48 '''''C,'J'i\'''''''')'J'''J.H ~:::~~ ~:)'-i~'.J'J~~~'~'. ~ /~)I ~ '\ ~.~ ~~Jntj~~ H~J~.