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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87CW373

(7) Amount: '102,369 acre-feet.

(8) Appropriation date: July 29, 1957.

(9) Decreed use: Irrigation, municipal, industrial, domestic, generation of
electric energy, stock watering, and piscatorial uses.

C. The Town of New Castle, through a long-tenn contract from the United States
Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, for the release of water from
Ruedi Reservoir or other substitute storage facilities in the amount of 100 acre-
feet per year, will provide augmentation water to replace otherwise out-of-priority
depletions under the New Castle Augmentation Station. The New Castle
Augmentation Station will be used to divert water, from the Colorado River to a
point in Elk Creek above the Ware and Hinds Ditch or in the Ware and Hinds
Ditch to provide a substitute supply of water to the Ware and Hinds Ditch at such
times as the Red Rock Ditch is out of priority and used for augmentation under
this application. At such times as the New Castle Augmentation Station water
right is diverting water out of priority and subject to the exercise of a valid call
located on the Colorado River, augmentation of depletions thereunder shall be
made by releases of water from Ruedi ReservQir pursuant to the contract between
the Town of New Castle and the United States Department of Interior, Bureau of
Reclamation. Depletions under the New Castle Augmentation Station delivered
to the Ware and Hinds Ditch for irrigation purposes shall be deemed to be equal
to depletions associated with municipal diversions by the Town of New Castle in
the same amount. Such depletions, which represent the consumptive use of water
within the development, shall be the following percentages of said municipal
diversions:

May
June
July
August
September
October

36 percent
40 percent
42 percent
38 percent
34 percent '~
27 percent

(These numbers are subject to
change based on changes made
pursuant to Paragraph 7.F., above.)

At such time as the water right decreed to the New Castle Augmentation Station
is out of priority, the Applicant shall cause to be released under its above-
referenced contract water from Ruedi Reservoir in an amount equal to the
calculated depletion, plus a transit or stream -carriage loss equal to the constant
rate of 9.5 percent for the first 14 days of release after the first water is released
under said contract (irrespective of whether said 14 days occur consecutively) and
0.4 percent for each day thereafter through termination of the augmentation

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