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<br />(c) Amount: 585 c.f.s. direct, 250,000 AF annual storage, and 100,000 AF refill, all
<br />made absolute in Case No. 94CW44.
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<br />(d) Decree: Water District No. 34, Case No. 967, in the District Court for
<br />Montezuma County, decree dated March 22, 1963.
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<br />(e) Priority Date: September 10, 1940
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<br />(f) Use:
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<br />Irrigation, domestic, municipal, industrial, recreation, fish and wildlife,
<br />flood control, and other beneficial purposes.
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<br />(2) Groundhoe Reservoir:
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<br />(a) Location: Groundhog Reservoir is situated in Sections 21,22,27 and 28, T4IN,
<br />RI3W, N.M.P.M., Dolores County, Colorado, covering 423-711 0 acres
<br />ofland.
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<br />(b) Source: Beaver Creek, Clear Creek, Groundhog Creek and Little Fish Creek,
<br />tributaty to the Dolores River.
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<br />(c) Amount: I. 9,332 AF (Conditional made Absolute)
<br />H. 1,291 AF
<br />HI. 11,086 AF
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<br />(d) Decree: Case No. 967
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<br />(e) Adjudication Date: December 18, 1933
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<br />(f) Priority Date: i.
<br />ii.
<br />HI.
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<br />August 1, 1905, D-4R
<br />August 1, 1905, D-4R
<br />October 24, 1929, D-9R
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<br />(g) Current Use: Irrigation
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<br />(h) Changed Use Requested: 400 AF of the August 1, 1905 priority D-4R decree
<br />from irrigation to irrigation and augmentation of
<br />irrigation, stock watering, domestic, municipal,
<br />industrial, commercial, fire protection, piscatorial and
<br />evaporative use.
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<br />B. The Surface Water Rights which are elements of the EfA Plan include Montezuma Valley
<br />Irrigation Company's ("MVIC's") Main Canal No. I and Main Canal No.2 water rights, fonner Basin
<br />Rank 17, Priority 0-16 ("Number 17" water rights).
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<br />(1) Prior to the construction of the Dolores Project, the headgate of Main No. I Canal was
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