BOARD00065 ‎(3)‎

• Board Meeting Date: 3/12/2007
• Description: ISF Section - Statement of Opposition - Case No. 5-06CW266 - Application of Archie and Linda Dunham
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Consent Agenda Item l.g
Case No. 5-06CW266: Application of Archie and Linda Dunham

Application Summary

This is an application for storage water rights and approval of a plan for augmentation and exchange
in Grand County, approximately 16 miles north of Kremmling. Applicants seek the following:

1. Storage water right for Cabin Pond for 14 acre-feet. Cabin Pond is an on-channel natural
pond on a tributary of Antelope Creek. Application claims a May 29, 1983 appropriation
date, which appears to be the date of an "Aerial Photograph produced by the U.S. Bureau of
Land Management".
2. On-channel Ponds A-I through A-3 on a tributary of Antelope Creek with capacities of3, 6
and 3 acre-feet, respectively, with an appropriation date of October 14,2001.
3. Off-channel Ponds B-1 through B-2 for 9 and 12 acre-feet, respectively, with an
appropriation date of October 14, 2001. The source for the Ponds is Antelope Creek and
tributaries. The Ponds will be filled at a combined rate of 1 cfs.
4. The claimed use of water is recreation, fire protection, aesthetic, piscatorial, wildlife and
stock water.
5. Approval of a plan for augmentation by exchange to cover depletions resulting from pond
evaporation with consumptive use credit from the dry up of8.23 acres of land historically
irrigated with 0.333 cfs out of 3 cfs decreed to the Antelope Ditch. The application does not
address depletions resulting from to stock watering.

CWCB Appropriations

CWCB StreamlLake Amount Approp. Watershed County
Case No. (ds) Date
5-86CW225 Antelope Creek 1.5 3/14/86 Colorado River Grand

Potential for Iniury

The Applicants' proposed plan for augmentation may injure the Board's instream flow water right
on Antelope Creek by not replacing out-of-priority depletions in time, place and amount. The
Applicants must be held to strict proof of their claimed appropriation dates.

Other Obiectors

The USA - Dept. of Interior- Bureau of Land Management, State and Division Engineers,
Colorado River Conservation District, and Gunsight Pass Ranch (William Thomas) also filed
statements of opposition to this application.