PROJ00090

• Contract/PO #: FS0015X
• Contractor Name: Powderhorn Metropolitan District No. 1 and No. 2
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 0
• County: Mesa
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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Ditch or the Independent Ditch, water representing these depletion credits
must be delivered either to Beaver Creek or to Mesa Creek below its
cont1uence with Big Beaver Creek and above the headgate of the King
Ditch. The redesigned Mesa Creek Pipeline will deliver water
representing Applicants' depletion credits into Mesa Creek near its
confluence with Big Beaver Creek. To the extent these depletion credits
are not required to satisfy senior calls under the terms of the decree
entered in Case No. 86CW015, Applicants propose to store water in H. U.
Robbins Reservoir at the rate and in an amount nor to exceed the rate and
amount at which water representing the depletion credits are delivered to
Mesa Creek,

B. Mesa Creek Ditch.

1. Originally decreed on July 25, 1941, in Civil Action No. 5812, District
Court in and for Mesa County, Colorado.

11. Location: The decreed point of diversion is located on the right bank of
Mesa Creek about the center of Township 11 South, Range 96 West of the
6th P.M. in the NEl/4 SWl/4 of Section 16.

lll. Source: Mesa Creek, tributary to Plateau Creek, tributary to Colorado
River.

iv. Amount: The total amount decreed to the ditch is 6.5 c.f.s.

v. Appropriation date: October 10, 1883.

VI. Uses: Domestic use and livestock purposes during the period October 1
to April 1 of each year. In Case No. 88CW341, District Court in and for
Water Division No.5. The Applicants seek to include the following
additional uses: commercial, industrial, irrigation, municipal,
snowmaking, recreational and other uses, direct flow, replacement,
augmentation and exchange.

V11. Remarks: Pursuant to the application in 88CW341, Applicants' interest
in this water right will be included as a water right to be used for
augmentation under paragraphs 5 and 23 of the decree entered in Case
No. 86CW015. To the extent Applicants' depletion credits associated
with this water right <;lre not required to satisfy senior calls under the
terms of the decree entered in Case No. 86CW015, Applicants propose to
store water in H. U. Robbins Reservoir at the rate and amount equivalent
to the rate and amount at which water representing the depletion credits

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