BOARD01821

• Board Meeting Date: 9/24/2001
• Description: ISF Section - Injury with Mitigation - Three Forks Ranch, LLC - Case No. 6-00CW48
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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ponds and the watcr from the Upper Meado\;y' POl1ds Ditch passes into ana
through the ponds and then directly back to the stream. The center or
these ponds is located In the NW 1/4 NW 1/4 of Section 21, T. 12 N., R.
86 W., at a point approximately 700 feet from the Wcst line and 400 fect
from the North line of said Section 21. These ponds have a combined
surface area of2.2:5 acres.

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(2) Lower Meagpw Oxbow Lakes. The sOllrce for these ponds is the Little
Snake River. The ponds are an inter-connected single, flow-through
system and aro dcsigned for recreational, aesthetic, piscatorial and wildlife
pllrposes. The ponds arc fed by water diverted at the headgato of the
Haneock Ditch under the various water rights diverted at that head gate
including the Hancock Ditch, the Hancock Ditch First Bnlargcment, (he
Hancock Ditch Second Enlargement and all ofthe water rights idenlified
in paragraphs 7.C, through 7.H. below. The water diverted under these
variolls water rights J10ws into the ponds to keep watcr fresl, and
circulating for improved fish habitat. There is no storage componcnt to
any 0 f these lakes and water divelied from tile stream undcr the identified
water tights passes into Md through the lakes and then directly back to the
stream. The centor of the ponds is located in the SW 1/4 NW 1/4 of
Seetion 17, T. 12 N., R. :36 W., at a point approximately 1900 teet from
the South line 1111d 800 feet from the West line of said Seotion 17. These
lakes have a combined sllrface area of 1 .68 aeres.

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A. !1nknown C,tpj)k Dilc11: The Unknown Creek Ditch was originally adjudicated
on September 24, 1903, in the District Court for ROUTT County, for 1.5 c.r.s.
The source for this water right is Unknown Creck, tributary to the Little Snake
River, The dcerecd point of diwrsioll is 011 the West bank of Unknown Creek
whenee the NW Corner of Section 28, T. 12 N" R. 86 W., bears S, 57" 55' W.,
6,669.9 feet. The right was decreed for the I1Tigation of90 acres with a priority
(late of May I, 1890. The Unknowl1 Creck Ditch has historically irrigated
l\pproximately 46 acres located in the NE 1/4 of Section 21, T, 12 N" R. 86 W,
On average, approximately 177 acre-feet of water per year was divcrted from
Unknown Creek \llldcr this water right of which approximately 56 acre-feet was
eonsumed by cvapo-transpiratiOl1.

R South Fork Ditch JS[Q...J.. The South Fork Diteh No. I was originally adjudicated
on September 24, 1903, in the District Court for ROlltt County. for 2.06 c.f.s. The
source for this water right is tho South Fork of the Little Snake River. 'rhe
dccreed point of diversion is on the West bank of the South Fork of the Little
Snake River at a point whence the NW Corner of Section 28, T. 12 N" R. 86 W.,
hears N. 19057' W.. 1059.9 feet. Thc right was decreed for [he irrigation of 135

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