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, , /' COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD Department of Natural Resources 721 State Centennial Building 1313 Sherman Street Denver, Colorado 80203 Phone: (303) 8&&.3441 STATE OF COLORI\DO O. M E M 0 RAN DUM Richard D. lamm Governor J. William McDonald Director David W. Walker Deputy Director TO: Members, ewCB FROM: Bill McDonald, Director DATE: January 7, 1985 SUBJECT: Agenda Item 9a, January 14-15, 1985, Board Meeting Ratify Statement of OppOSition Case No. 5-84CW310, Red Mountain Ranch Background The applicant, Red Mountain Ranch Partnershi?, Ltd., has filed a water right appl icat ion for water storage, underground . water rights, change of water rights, and approval of a plan for augmentation. This water right application is to provide a water supply for a residential devel09ment including a tree nursery and open space which is located approximately a mile northeast of the town of Eagle on the Eagle River. The CWCB has an instream flow water right decree on this reach of the Eagle River for 110 cfs summer and 45 cfs winter with a March 17, 1980, appropriation date. Applicant's Proposal The applicant proposes to develop 14 two-acre lots and a ten-acre tree nursery with a single caretaker unit on the nursery site. Total water use depletions would be: in-house (15 units) 0.5 aC-ft/yr, lawn irrigation (15 acres) 25.9 ac-ft/yr, tree nursery (10 acres) 17.3 ac-ft/yr, and pond evaporation 0.3 ac-ft/yr for a total annual depletion of 44.0 ac-ft. Augmenta- tion water during the historic irrigation season will be supplied through water rights the applicant owns in the Warren Ditch. 217 ai/9a/rmr .