2014-10-10_PERMIT FILE - C1996083 ‎(4)‎

• Permit No: C1996083
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 10/10/2014
• Section_Exhibit Name: Volume III Exhibit 02 Water Augmentation
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Application of Bowie Resources, LLC
Application for Conditional Water Right and for
Conditional Appropriative Right of Exchange
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19,291.7 feet.
iii. Source: Natural springs, flood waters, and melting snow draining into
reservoir.
iv. Amount: 6 acre feet; Priority Date: October 9, 1907 irrigation.
12.4 acre feet; Priority Date: August 7, 1949, irrigation and domestic.
13. Exchange Reach: The upstream terminus of the exchange reach shall be the upstream
location of the Bowie Spruce Stomp Diversion, as described in Paragraph 3, and the
downstream terminus of the exchange shall be the downstream location of the Bowie
Spruce Stomp Diversion, as described in Paragraph 3. See Figure 1.
14. Rate of Exchange: 2.0 c.f.s, conditional.
15. Priority Date: June 17, 2014.
16. Operation of Exchange: Applicant will exchange the water diverted at the Bowie Spruce
Stomp Diversion with the water released from the Holy Terror or Rex Reservoirs. The
amount of water required for the exchange will be calculated using streamflow
information provided by two continuous streamflow recording stations installed by the
Applicant on West Fork Terror Creek. The two stations are located upstream and
downstream of Applicant's proposed underground mining operations located beneath the
West Fork Terror Creek drainage. The stations are located at the upstream and
downstream locations of the Bowie Spruce Stomp Diversion, as described in Paragraph 3.
See Figure 1. Each station was designed and calibrated by Applicant's water resource
engineers and includes a concrete control structure, Parshall flume, and recording
pressure transducer. The measurement system collects and records streamflow
measurements at the upstream and downstream sites on a continuous basis.
Approximately 96 measurements are recorded daily and these values are averaged to
produce an average daily flow at each site. The system has been in operation since mid -
June, 2014.
Average daily streamflow measurements recorded mid -June through October in 2014 and
2015 (the baseline data collection period) will be used to define the relationship between
streamflows at the upper monitoring station and lower monitoring station under existing
conditions (pre- mining). The purpose of this monitoring is to provide baseline
information from which future streamflow measurements at the two stations can be
compared following the introduction of underground mining within the basin. This will
provide a basis to determine if, and by how much, the existing relationship between the