BOARD02023

• Board Meeting Date: 3/20/2000
• Description: ISF Section - Statements of Opposition
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Consent Agenda Item 4-3.1.
Case No. 5-99CW299; Town of Gypsum .

Application Summary

This is an application for a plan for augmentation on the Eagle River and Gypsum Creek in Eagle
County near Gypsum (see attached map). In this application, the Town of Gypsum is proposing
to add several additional water sources and augment any out-of-priority depletions associated
with these new sources. The structures to be augmented include the Little G Intake, the Norgaard
Qitch Town Enlargement, the Gypsum Well T-2 & T-3, the Town of Gypsum Gravity System,
the Eye Lake Supply Ditch, the Eagle River Pump and Pipeline and the Gypsum Well Nos. I &
2. The water rights to be used for augmentation include Eagle Park Reservoir and the Arkansas
Well. In addition, the Applicant proposes to exchange up to 20 AF at a rate of 2.5 efs from the
confluence of the Eagle River and Gypsum Creek up to the point of diversion for Eye Lake
Supply Ditch. No appropriation date is provided for this exchange.

CWCB Appropriations

The Board has appropriated the following instream flow water rights that could be injured by this
application.

Case No.
5-80CW117
5-80CW1l6

Stream
Gypsum Creek
Gypsum Creek

Amount (efs)
5
6

Appropriation Date
3/17/1980
3/17/1980

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Potential for Iniury

The Applicant's proposed plan for augmentation and exchange may not replace depletions to the
Board's instream flow water rights on Gypsum Creek in the same time, amount and location which
they historically occurred.

Other Obiectors

Other objectors in this case include the Eagle County School District R, City of Aurora and the
Homestake Project

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