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<br />MAYNES, BRADFORD, SHIPPS" SHEPTEtL. LLP .
<br />ArTORNRVS AT LAW '
<br />WEST aUILDINCl ~ 835 E. SI!CONO i>.VENUS, SUITI! 128
<br />POST OFFICE BOX 2717 .
<br />PUAANClO, COLORADO 81302.2717
<br />07Oll!47.17611 .
<br />FA)(: '7CW4NI~
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<br />FRANK E, (SAM) MAVN&e
<br />THOMAS H. SHIPPS
<br />JANIOE 0, SHIFT&l.
<br />PATRIOIA A, HALLt
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<br />JOHN llARLOW 8P11AR
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<br />""RON V. S_FOlIO (10.7 '18811)
<br />tAl.8O ADMl7TliD IN_ONA
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<br />March 15,2001
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<br />Via Facsimile & U.s. Mail
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<br />Rod Kuharich, Director
<br />Dan Merriman, Section Chief
<br />Stream and Lake Protection Program
<br />Colorado Water Conservation Board
<br />1313 Shemlan Street, Room 721
<br />Denver, CO 80203
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<br />Re; Donation of Carbon Lake Ditch Water Rights
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<br />Dear Rod and Dan;
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<br />As you know, Maynes, Bradford, Shipps & Sheftel, LLP represents the Southwestern Water
<br />Conservation District ("District"). The District supports the work of the Animas River
<br />Stakeholders Group ("ARSG"), whose mission is to "iimprove water quality and aquatic habitat
<br />in the Animas watershed." To assist ARSG in carrying out its mission, the District requests that
<br />the Colorado Water Conservation Board (flCWCB") ~ccept a donation of the Carbon Lake Ditch
<br />water rights ("CL Ditch Water Rights"i from the Sa~ Juan Resources Conservation and
<br />De:velopment Council ("Council") to be dedicated to CWCB instream flow rights in the Upper
<br />Mineral Creek Basin. The Council, a Colorado non-profit corporation which works
<br />cooperatively with the ARSO, was organized to lead local efforts to improve the economic and
<br />soCial conditions of the San Juan resource area in La !plata, Montezuma, Dolores, Archuleta and
<br />San Juan Counties through development, conservatio'n and proper use of the resources of the
<br />area. . I
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<br />The CL Ditoh was awarded a oonditional decre~ in Case No. 1751B, District Court, La Plata
<br />County, on March 21, 1966, with an appropriation date of July B, 1954, priority 1965.70, for the
<br />irrigation of 675 acres in Mineral and Ouray Counties; :10.0 c,f.s. at Headgate I, located on the North
<br />bank of an unnamed creek tributary to Mineral Cre~k ("Unnamed Creek"), whence U.S, Mineral
<br />Monument ("USMM") (CL) bearsN. 4045' W., 4,590 feet; and 5.0 oJ,s, at Headgate 2, located in the
<br />center of the Unnamed Creek, whence USMM eeL) beatis N, 19010' W., 1,505 feet, In Case No. W-46,
<br />March 21, 1970, 14.1 c.f,s. of the CL Ditch was ll'\hde absolute and 0.9 Q,f.s, was oontinued as
<br />conditional. The 0,9 c,f.s. was made absolute in Case No! W-626, decreed on September 25, 1972,
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