WSP01847

• File Number: 8449.900
• Description: Bear Creek
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Date: 4/1/1979
• Author: Evergreen Sanit.
• Title: Water Resources Study, Evergreen Water System
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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these curves should be developed utilizing gage flows adjusted to

include known upstream diversions. Because of the volume of computations

required to develop this type curve using daily flows, gage flows

were used.

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Evergreen Water System Water Rights

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A list of water rights owned by the Evergreen System is shown
in Table 6. The most senior right is for 6 cfs of the No.2 priority
right in ~ater District No.9. The next senior right is for 3 cfs
of the No.3 priority io the District. The transfer of the 6 cfs right
was decreed in 1961, whereby this amount was transferred from the
Simonton Ditch. The 3 cfs right was transferred from the Hodgson
Ditch by decree dated January 11, 1967.

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The most senior decree states that 2.94 cfs was abandoned and

200 acres of land was removed from irrigotion by the Simonton Ditch

in exchange for the transfer of the 6 cfs. Certain constraints were

also imposed on the use of the 6 cfs right. Included in t~ese is

the subordination of the Evergreen diversion right to certain storage
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rights during times when water is not being diverted in District 9

for irrigational purposes. This constraint could substantially limit

Evergreen diversions during non-irrigation periods.

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In transferring the No.3 right, a total of 159 acres was removed

from irrigation from the Hodgson and Pioneer Union Ditch irrigated

lands. A total of 3.988 cfs was abandoned to Bear Creek from the

Hodgson and Pioneer Union Decrees and 1.163 cfs was abandoned to the

Pioneer Union Ditch. The No.3 right transfer decree also contains

the same general constraints stated above for the No.2 water right.

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The 110.2 right OI.ned by Evergreen is only a portion of the total
No.2 right. The original Simonton Ditch decree was for 35.76 cfs.
Six cfs was transferred by Evergreen, 2.25 cfs by the State of Colorado

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