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<br />e <br /> <br />Keith Catlin <br />March 18. 2005 <br />Page 2 <br /> <br />The Ranch Spring .05 c.fs. 1929 <br />(The Home Spring) <br />Quakie Spring, aka Quakie Spring Pipeline <br />Lodge Spring, aka Little Spring <br />Little Bear Spring and the Fish Pond associated therewith <br /> <br />Our water in the Gunnison Basin is used for agricultural purposes, livestock, <br />haying, domestic, gardening, ponds, etc. Based upon these water uses, I have specific <br />concerns about undecreed uses that I would like to be sure to have covered. I am <br />prepared to provide additional information regarding these uses. I will be filing for water <br />decrees on springs and ponds that have been utilized since the ranch was founded to <br />protect our future rights for continued use per your meeting of March 3, 2005 in <br />Hotchkiss, Colorado. I will have to obtain by GPS the exact coordinates to file on these <br />springs and ponds. All of our water rights listed with the Colorado Division Engineer's <br />office have been put to beneficial use annually. <br /> <br />. There has never been any water measured in Williams Creek at the location of the <br />.95 miles referenced in the Executive Summary, CDOW #46377 from 1992 through <br />2004. In the summer and fall, the .95 miles has had no water flowing for four weeks to <br />six weeks minimum each year. Then when water is flowing in portions only of the .95 <br />miles, it is not Williams Creek water; it is wastewater from our hay field which is <br />irrigated from Deep Creek. If it were not for Deep Creek's wastewater, Williams Creek <br />.95 mile would be dry for an even longer duration. <br /> <br />All of Williams Creek is not 4'_9' wide in the .95 mile as reported in the Executive <br />Summary. In some areas Williams Creek is between 2' and 4' wide, a 4'_9' width would <br />be the exception for the .95 mile. <br /> <br />The water from Williams Creek in the .95 mile could not support the fish <br />populations as in the report because Williams Creek would not have continuous water <br />flow. I have not received CDOW fish survey noted as Appendix B, and would request a <br />copy of that be fOIwarded to me. It should be noted, that the water in the Williams <br />Creek .95 miles has been so low, or the flow has not existed, that beavers have not been <br />around for years. <br /> <br />e <br />