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<br />-l <br /> <br />--\ <br /> <br />September 28, 1989 <br /> <br />J W. U1 Wheeler and Associates, Inc. <br />" Water AeSOUlte5 EngIneers <br />1 <br /> <br />AECel~mD <br /> <br />CIA <br />5C <br />ASC <br />F <br />I <br />L <br />E <br /> <br />- <br />- <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />818 Centennial Building <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br /> <br />SEPT 2-9 ~9 <br /> <br />~O!..{;"",_, ,',"'=,' <br />""'''' ' ,""" <br />'t)"I;wNB~n~J.~~.~:r'"~ .,:-. <br />5("',1-:.. <br /> <br />Attention: <br /> <br />Gene Jencsok <br />Randy Seaholm <br /> <br />Re: #936.5 - Bear Creek Lake Operations Study <br />Mount Carbon Metropolitan District <br />Storable Inflows and Releases <br /> <br />Gentlemen: <br /> <br />On behalf of the Mount Carbon Metropolitan District (MCMD), we are submitting <br /> <br /> <br />summary tables of the District's estimated "Storable Inflows" and "Releases" for use in the <br /> <br /> <br />. Bear Creek Lake Operations Study. A brief discussion of the MCMD water rights which <br /> <br /> <br />are proposed for storage in the lake follows: <br /> <br />Water Riehts <br />MCMD owns two water rights which already have been transferred and decreed for <br />augmentation purposes and for storage in Bear Creek Lake. The Hock-Hocking Mine <br />water right is a decreed non-tributary source near Alma, Colorado. The mine discharges <br />. into Mosquito Creek, a tributary of the Middle Fork of the South Platte River and is <br />deliverable by gravity to the confluence of the South Platte and Bear Creek. Since the <br />right is nontributary, all water diverted pursuant to the right is fully consumable. <br /> <br />MCMD owns the right to an average annual yield of 0040 cfs of the Hock-Hocking <br />water. In Case No. 83CW280, MCMD obtained a decree which enables the District to use <br />the Hock-Hocking water in a plan for augmentation to support municipal uses. The decree <br />also names Bear Creek Lake as an alternate point of storage for this water right and <br />reserved the right to exchange the Hock-Hocking water from the mouth of Bear Creek to <br />Bear Creek Lake (Priority date of exchange is November 29, 1983). MCMD is also <br />