PROJ00079

• Contract/PO #: FS0012X
• Contractor Name: New Castle, Town of
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 0
• County: Garfield
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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Service Oil and Gas 'Corporation and Union Oil Company of California.

3. The application filed herein consists of five separate but interrelated parts which
together comprise a system to provide a legal water supply by the Town of New Castle through
its New Castle Water Works System and Pipeline to a proposed development annexed to said
Town and owned by Eric C. Williams. In summary, the components are as follows:

A. An application for water rights for the New Castle Augmentation Station, which
is designed to divert water from the Colorado River for delivery to Elk Creek for
exchange purposes.

B. A plan for augmentation to allow for diversions through the ~ew Castle Water
Works System and Pipeline.

C. An application for change of w~ter rights for the Buster pump and Pipeline and
Adam's Lake to allow those rights to be used through the New Castle
Augmentation Station.

D. An application for approval of exchange to allow substitute water to be provided
to calling water rights on Elk Creek through the New Castle Augmentation '
Station.

E. A plan for augmentation to allow for diversions through the New Castle
Augmentation Station.

PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION
(New Castle Water Works System and Pipeline)

4. The application filed herein includes an application for approval of a plan for
augmentation. Depletions resulting from otherwise out-of-priority diversions from the following
structure are to be augmented pursuant to the terms of this Decree: 'New Castle Water Works
System and Pipeline. The following water rights are. diverted from this structure:

A. New CaStle Water Works System and Pipeline adjudicated in Civil Action No.
1058 in the District Court in and for Garfield County on May 29, 1904, nunc pro
tunc September 6, 1889, as Domestic Priority No. 1 for 2.67 c.f.s. (plus an
additional 1.0 c.f.s. in case of emergency and fire protection purposes) from East
Elk Creek for municipal and other purposes, with an appropriation date of
September 6, 1889.

B. New Castle Water System First Enlargement adjudicated in Case No. 81CW477
in the Districr-Court in and for Water Division No.5, State of Colorado, on
October 18, 1982, for 10.0 c.f.s. from East Elk Creek for municipal and other
purposes, with an appropriation date of December 23, 1981.

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