BOARD02293

• Board Meeting Date: 3/21/2006
• Description: ISF Section - Consent Agenda - Case No. 7-05CW064, Rafter T Ranch, LLC
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Consent Agenda Item l.r
Case No. 7-05CW064; Rafter T Ranch, LLC

Application Summary

This is an application for a change of water right, storage right and ground water right near Capote
Lake in Archuleta County. Applicant proposes an upstream alternate point of diversion for the
Arnold Fredricks Ditch and the Arnold Fredlicks Ditch Alternate Point No.1 to a point
approximately 1 mile upstream of the current points of diversion. Applicant also seeks to use the
Amold Fredricks Ditch water for storage in Drennan Reservoir for irrigation, stock, fish culture, and
domestic in addition to the decreed irrigation of 100 acres. Drennan Reservoir was previously
decreed as a gravel pit for 4 acre-feet in Case No. 84CW21O, and in this case, Applicant seeks to
expand the Reservoir to 27.54 acre-feet Finally, Applicant claims an underground and storage water
right for Drennan Reservoir/Grave Pit (Well Permit No. 55631-F). In addition to sources described
previously, Applicant proposes to fill the Reservoir with the water from an unnamed tributary of
Devil Creek and with I cfs of the Buckskin Nailor Ditch decreed in Case No. W-1298-75.

CWCB Appropriations

The Board holds the following in stream flow water rights that may be injured by this application:

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CWCB Case Stream/Lake Amount Approp.
No, (cfs) Date Watershed County
7-79CW045 Piedra River 70/40 311411979 Piedra River Archuleta

Potential for Iniurv

The Applicant's proposed changes of the Arnold Fredericks Ditch water right to include an upstream
altemate point of diversion and use of the changed water right for a new storage right with additional
uses may result in an expansion of use that could injure the Board's instream flow water right on the
Piedra River.

Other Obiectors
Alan and Barbara Sackman also filed a statement of opposition to this application.

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