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EXECOTIVE SIIMMARY <br />Water rights within Colorado are governed by the doctrine of <br />prior appropriation best illustrated by the statement "first in <br />time, first in right." Water District 40, in which the CWZ <br />proposed lease area exists, has extended the normal numerical <br />priority ranking to include letters with each letter associated <br />with an adjudication date. <br />The majority of water rights within the AOI are found in the <br />Roatcap Creek Basin with 81.015 cfs decreed for irrigation and <br />5.01 cfs decreed for other uses. Six ditches divert water from <br />Roatcap Creek for irrigation. Estimates of land irrigated by <br />these ditches range from 270 acres to 420 acres. The Fire <br />Mountain Canal, decreed for 40.000 cfs, has not diverted water <br />from Roatcap Creek from 1961 through 1981. Four other ditches <br />divert water from sub-basins of Roatcap Creek Basin which are not <br />tributary to Roatcap Creek. Residents of Stucker Mesa own 4.558 <br />of the Overland Ditch water which is spilled into East Roatcap <br />Creek and diverted from Roatcap Creek through the Roberts-Stucker <br />Ditch. Within the Roatcap Creek Basin, four water right <br />applications are pending in Water Division 4 and 12 conditional <br />decrees have been issued. <br />Twelve water rights exist within the Stevens Gulch Basin with <br />f ~- <br />16.533 cfs decreed for irrigation and 1.40 cfs and 49.0 AF decreed <br />for other uses. The Fire Mountain Canal has been decreed to <br />divert 15.0 cfs from Stevens Gulch Creek but has not diverted any <br />-4- <br />