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. . . Agenda Item 8a( I) Case No. 1-97CWI72; Jefferson County School District Case Summary The Board ratified the statement of opposition filed in this case at its September 22-23, 1997, meeting. This is an application for ground water rights, storage rights, approval of a plan for augmentation, and change of water rights including exchange on Bear Creek, Haystack Gulch, and Corral Creek near Evergreen in Jefferson and Clear Creek Counties (see attached map). Applicant oWns and operates the Mount Evans Outdoors Educational Laboratory School (OELS), which is located in Haystack Canyon. Applicant plans to use ground water via OELS Wells Nos. 1-3 and potentially three additional wells to supply water to the School. The OELS property has historically been supplied with water from the Haystack Gulch Pipeline, OELS Well Nos. I and 2, and Haystack Gulch Reservoirs I and 2. Applicant is now requesting to also supply the OELS property with water from the OELS Well No.3 and Jackson Trout Pond. Applicant is requesting the right to store water in Jackson Trout Pond under an appropriation date of September 12, 1994 and in Haystack Reservoirs Nos. I and 2 under a 1907-appropriation date. Applicant proposes to change the decreed uses for 0.14 cfs of the Hodgson Ditch water rights to include augmentation, replacement, exchange and storage purposes. This water would then be exchanged, with a priority date of April 29, 1997, from the Hodgson Ditch up to Haystack Reservoirs Nos. I and 2, Jackson Trout Pond, and the locations of the proposed wells. Wastewater is disposed of via lagoon system and land application. Applicant proposes to replace out-of-priority depletions associated with the ground water use and reservoir and lagoon evaporation with the Hodgson Ditch water and with releases from the OELS' reservoirs. CWCB Approoriations The Board has the following pending instream flow appropriations that could be injured by this application: Case No. Stream Amount (cfs) AOl'roP. Date 1-94CW252 Corral Creek 1.010.5 11103/1994 1-94CW262 Corral Creek 5.0/2.0 09/13/1994 1-94CW258 Bear Creek 10.0/5.0 09/1311994 1-94CW259 Bear Creek 10.0/5.0 09113/1994 1-94CW260 Bear Creek 15.0/7.0 09/13/1994 Stipulation Applicant has agreed to the following terms and conditions, which will provide full protection for the Board's instream flow water rights on Corral and Bear Creeks.