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Consent Agenda Item l.g <br />Case No. 3-07CW060: Application of City of Creede, Colorado <br />Application Summary <br />This is an application for approval of a plan for augmentation for the City of Creede. The <br />Applicant seeks to increase the pumping rate for Creede Well Nos. 1 and 2 from a cumulative rate <br />of 1.1 cfs to 1.1 cfs for each well, up to a cumulative rate of 2.2 cfs. The source of groundwater is <br />the allu~~ium of Willow Creek, a tributary of the Rio Grande, and the alluvium of the Rio Grande. <br />These wells do not ha~~e indi`~idual water rights; they may only operate in accordance with the plan <br />for augmentation decreed in Case No. 94CW31 and the plan sought in this application. The <br />Applicant's sources of augmentation are 0.5 cfs of the Kanawha Ditch and Pipeline (aka Nelson <br />Tunnel) water right and 0.5 cfs of the Cochran-Pioneer Ditch water right. The former is considered <br />an independent supply, not tributary to any stream, developed by the Nelson Tunnel and <br />surrounding mine workings; the latter diverts from Willow Creek and was previously transferred <br />from the Rio Grande to its current point of di`~ersion on Willow Creek. Both sources of <br />augmentation water are located upstream of the wells on Willow Creek. <br />CWCB Appropriation <br />The CWCB holds the following instream flow water right that could be injured by this <br />application: <br />CWCB Stream/Lake Amount Approp. Watershed County <br />Case No. cfs Date <br />3-83CW049 Rio Grande River 150/65 8/16/82 Rio Grande headwaters Mineral <br />Potential for Injury <br />Applicant's proposed plan for augmentation may injure the Board's instream flow water rights on <br />the Rio Grande Ri~~er by not replacing depletions in time, amount and location. <br />Other Objectors <br />The Rio Grande Water Users Association also filed a Statement of Opposition to this application. <br />