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<br />IV. Amount: 56 acre-feet, conditional, with the right to fill and refill m
<br />priority.
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<br />v. Appropriation date: August 4, 1986.
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<br />VI. Uses: Irrigation of250 acres, domestic, commercial, industrial, municipal
<br />snowmaking, recreational, by direct flow or replacement, augmentation
<br />and exchange.
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<br />3.
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<br />Applicants seek judicial approval of the practice of substiunion and exchange by which
<br />water will be stored in H.U. Robbins Reservoir, described in paragraph 2 above, and an
<br />equivalent amount of water will be released into Mesa Creek near its confluence with Big
<br />Beaver Creek under the water rights described as follows:
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<br />A. Mesa Creek Ditch, a/kJa Ditch No, 2.
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<br />1. Originally decreed on February 7, 18,90, in Civil Action No. 273, District
<br />Court of the 7th Judicial District of the State of Colorado, sitting in and
<br />for the County of Mesa.
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<br />11. Location: The decreed location of the point of diversion is on the right
<br />bank of Mesa Creek about the center of Township 11 South, Range 96
<br />West of the 6th P.M.
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<br />111. Source: Mesa Creek, tributary to Plateau Creek, tributary to the Colorado
<br />River.
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<br />IV. Amount: The total amount decreed to the ditch is 16.62 c,f,s,
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<br />v, Appropriation date: September 23, 1887.
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<br />Vl. Uses: Irrigation. By decree entered on December 17, 1986, in Case No.
<br />86CW015, District Court in and for Water Division No.5, the decreed
<br />uses of Applicants' interest in the Mesa Creek Ditch were changed to
<br />domestic, commercial, industrial, irrigation, municipal, snowmaking,
<br />recreational, piscatorial, aesthetic, and other usb, by direct use,
<br />augmentation, replacement and exchange.
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<br />Vll. Remarks: Depletion credits associated with the historic use of Applicants'
<br />interest in irrigation season diversions under the Mesa Creek Ditch were
<br />established by decree entered in Case No. 86CWOl5,District Coun in
<br />and for Water Division No.5. Under the terms of that decree, when the
<br />streambed of Mesa Creek is dry below the headgate of the Mesa Creek
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<br />C:I WP51 IDOCSIPOWDER,I AP
<br />December 29. 1995
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