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Louis (Beaver) Edmundson <br />Scott King <br />Michael (Sandy) White <br />The Board members have a broad cross - section of experience, including businessmen, ranchers, <br />former Huerfano County Commissioners, real estate brokers, and a water attorney. <br />The HCWCD received approval in the Huerfano County November 2012 elections to increase <br />the ad valorem property tax mill levy for the HCWCD, beginning on January 1, 2013, by an <br />additional 2.0 mills against all of the taxable property within the District. The 2.0 mill levy <br />increase is in addition to the existing 0.128 mill levy of HCWCD. Based on the 2012 assessed <br />valuation, the 2.128 mills will generate $243,601 in annual tax revenues. The HCWCD also <br />received approval in the Huerfano County November 2012 elections to incur multi -year <br />obligations by borrowing up to a maximum of three million dollars for the purposes of acquiring <br />and developing water storage facilities and acquiring and developing water rights. <br />HCWCD will utilize these tax revenues to develop a regional augmentation plan to benefit the <br />water users of Huerfano County. <br />2.3 WATER RIGHTS <br />2.3.1 Water Availability <br />To provide a source of consumptive use credits for use in the proposed regional augmentation <br />plan, the HCWCD has reached an agreement to purchase the Camp Ranch and associated water <br />rights. This agreement is included in Appendix E. HCWCD is currently performing due <br />diligence (150 day due diligence period) to evaluate the Camp Ranch land and associated water <br />rights. The Camp Ranch is located on the Huerfano River about four miles upstream of the <br />Interstate -25 crossing. The Camp Ranch property, the irrigation ditches which serve it, and the <br />location of The Mapes Well No. 1 (Registration No 14474), are shown in Figure 2. In addition <br />to the land, Camp Ranch water rights include an undivided six - sevenths interest in the William <br />Craig Ditch, an undivided one -third interest in the Jose Maria Ditch, and the Mapes Well No. 1. <br />The William Craig Ditch water right is decreed for 2.4 cfs for irrigation of 120 acres with <br />Priority No. 7 in the original (Reed) adjudication on the Huerfano River. It has an appropriation <br />date of May 1, 1864 and an adjudication date of June 12, 1889. The William Craig Ditch Decree <br />is attached in Appendix F. <br />The Jose Maria Ditch water right was decreed for 0.24 cfs for irrigation of 12 acres with Priority <br />No. 51 in the original (Reed) adjudication. It has an appropriation date of May 1, 1873 and an <br />adjudication date of June 12, 1889. The Jose Maria Ditch Decree is attached in Appendix G. <br />Mapes Well No. 1 was permitted by the Division of Water Resources and assigned Registration <br />No. 14474. In Water Court Case No. W -2931, Mapes Well No. 1 was decreed for 1.0 cfs for <br />irrigation on 120 acres with priority date of June 22, 1950. Mapes Well No. 1 has been assigned <br />