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Application of Pueblo, o1CW160 <br />Water Division 2 <br />6. Description of Water Right: The water right decreed herein (the "RICD Water <br />Right ") is described as follows: <br />A. Name of Structures. The Arkansas River Legacy Whitewater Park (the <br />"Whitewater Park ") in Pueblo, Colorado. The nine control structures comprising <br />the Whitewater Park will be numbered consecutively from the upstream structure <br />(Structure 1) to the downstream structure (Structure 9). These nine structures <br />comprise a whitewater and recreational boating course. <br />Structure 1 of the Whitewater Park will include a permanent boat chute /fish <br />ladder to allow kayaks, boats, and other recreational water craft, as well as native <br />and sport fish, to pass over an existing 13 -foot high diversion structure in the <br />river known as the Southern Colorado Power Plant or Aquila Energy diversion <br />dam (the "Power Plant Diversion "). A series of seven smaller, permanent control <br />structures (Structures 2 -8) will be constructed in the river between the Power <br />Plant Diversion and the Union Street bridge to create self - scouring pools and to <br />divert and control the flow of the river at specific points to create various wave <br />forms desirable for whitewater kayaking and recreational boating. <br />These structures will be designed to control, concentrate, and direct the flow of <br />the Arkansas River for use by kayaks, canoes, rafts and other types of <br />recreational water crafts, and to establish and maintain fish habitat for piscatorial <br />and other purposes. The structures will be of the type and nature described in <br />the letter report dated December 24, 2001 by Gary M. Lacy, submitted as <br />Pueblo's Exhibit D in the hearing before the CWCB on July 22 -23, 2002, and <br />will be constructed generally in conformity therewith. The Whitewater Park will <br />extend downstream to Structure 9, a permanent boat chute or chutes in the <br />Arkansas River at the location of the existing St. Charles Mesa Water District <br />diversion structure, located just downstream from the Santa Fe Street bridge in <br />Pueblo, near Moffat Street (the "Moffat Street Chute ") to allow passage over the <br />existing diversion structure. <br />B. Legal Description of Structures. The Whitewater Park will be constructed <br />in the Arkansas River channel, beginning with the boat chute /fish ladder <br />(Structure 1) to be constructed over and through the Power Plant Diversion. <br />Seven other control structures (Structures 2 through 8) will be located in the <br />river between Structure I and the Union Street Bridge. Structures 2 through 8 <br />will be constructed in a reach of the river that is approximately 2,000 feet in <br />length. The Power Plant Diversion, the Union Street bridge, and the Moffat <br />Street Chute (Structure 9) are generally located as follows: <br />Power Plant Diversion (Structure 1): A water control structure located in <br />the Arkansas River channel in the SW1 /4 of the NW1 /4, Section 36, T. 20 <br />S., R. 65 W., of the 6th P.M., at a point approximately 2,326 feet South of <br />the North Section[ 14ne and 0081, 00 feet East of the vv'cst OQ %%tion line of said <br />Section 36. <br />3 <br />