2013-11-25_PERMIT FILE - M1993004

• Permit No: M1993004
• IBM Index Class Name: PERMIT FILE
• Doc Date: 11/25/2013
• Doc Name: State Engiener's Office well permit and groundwater determination documents
• From: General Shale
• To: DRMS
• Email Name: PSH
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Applicant: Robinson Brick Company
Aquifer: Lower Dawson
Determination No.: 1029 -BD
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b. The average thickness of the saturated permeable material of the aquifer underlying the
land under consideration that could yield a sufficient quantity of water that may be extracted
and applied to beneficial use is 40 feet based on evaluation of the geologic log of an existing
well, Permit No. 172004, located adjacent to the property. Use of this geologic log
constitutes site specific data as provided for by Rule 5.3.4.2 of the Designated Basin Rules.
7. At this time, there is no substantial artificial recharge that would affect the aquifer within a
one hundred year period.
8. Pursuant to Section 37 -90- 107(7), C.R.S., and in accordance with the Designated Basin
Rules, the Commission shall allocate ground water in the aquifer based on ownership of the
overlying land and an aquifer life of one hundred years. Therefore, the maximum allowed
average annual amount of ground water in the aquifer that may be allocated for withdrawal
pursuant to the data in the paragraphs above for the 200 acres of overlying land claimed by
the applicant is 16.0 acre -feet. Of this amount, only 12.0 acre -feet per year is being allocated
pursuant to the applicant's request.
9. A review of the records in the Office of the State Engineer has disclosed that none of the
water in the aquifer underlying the land claimed by the applicant has been previously
allocated or permitted for withdrawal.
10. Pursuant to Section 37- 90- 107(7)(c)(III), C.R.S., an approved determination of water right
shall be considered a final determination of the amount of ground water so determined;
except that the Commission shall retain jurisdiction for subsequent adjustment of such
amount to conform to the actual local aquifer characteristics from adequate information
obtained from well drilling or test holes.
11. The ability of wells permitted to withdraw the authorized amount of water from this
non - renewable aquifer may be less than the one hundred years upon which the amount of
water in the aquifer is allocated, due to anticipated water level declines.
12. In accordance with Rule 5.3.6 of the Designated Basin Rules, it has been determined that
withdrawal of ground water from the aquifer underlying the land claimed by the applicant will
not, within one hundred years, deplete the flow of a natural steam or its alluvial aquifer at an
annual rate greater than one -tenth of one percent of the annual rate of withdrawal and,
therefore, the ground water is nontributary ground water as defined in Rule 4.2.19 of the
Designated Basin Rules. No more than 98% of the amount of ground water withdrawn
annually shall be consumed, as required by the Designated Basin Rules.
13. In accordance with Section 37 -90- 107(7), C.R.S., upon Commission approval of a
determination of water right, well permits for wells to withdraw the authorized amount of
water from the aquifer shall be available upon application, subject to the conditions of this
determination and the Designated Basin Rules and subject to approval by the Commission.
14. The Commission Staff has evaluated the application relying on the claims to control of the
ground water in the aquifer made by the applicant.