2015-05-19_HYDROLOGY - M1977526

• Permit No: M1977526
• IBM Index Class Name: HYDROLOGY
• Doc Date: 5/19/2015
• Doc Name: Substitute Water Supply Plan - January 1-December 31, 2015
• From: DNR Water Resources
• To: DRMS
• Email Name: TOD
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Mr. Branden Effland
Worthing SWSP
May 13, 2015
Page 4
according to the release schedule and that the claimed amounts match the amounts recorded
in Aurora's accounting.
13. The name, mailing address, and phone number of the contact person who will be responsible
for operation and accounting of this plan must be provided on the accounting forms to the
Division Engineer and Water Commissioner.
14. The approval of this SWSP does not relieve the Applicant and/or landowner of the requirement
to obtain a Water Court decree approving a permanent plan for augmentation or mitigation to
ensure the permanent replacement of all depletions, including long-term evaporation losses
and lagged depletions after gravel mining operations have ceased. If reclamation of the mine
site will produce a permanent water surface exposing groundwater to evaporation, an
application for a plan for augmentation must be filed with the Division 1 Water Court at least
three (3) years prior to the completion of mining to include, but not be limited to, long-term
evaporation losses and lagged depletions. If a lined pond results after reclamation,
replacement of lagged depletions shall continue until there is no longer an effect on stream
flow.
15. This substitute water supply plan may be revoked or modified at any time should it be
determined that injury to other water rights has or will occur as a result of this plan. Should
this SWSP expire without renewal or be revoked prior to adjudication of a permanent plan for
augmentation, all excavation of the product from below the water table and all other use of
ground water at the pit must cease immediately.
16. In accordance with amendments to Section §25-8-202-(7), C.R.S. and "Senate Bill 89-181
Rules and Regulations" adopted on February 4, 1992, the State Engineer shall determine if
this substitute water supply plan is of a quality to meet requirements of use to which the senior
appropriation receiving the substitute supply has normally been put. As such, water quality
data or analyses may be requested at any time to determine if the requirement of use of the
senior appropriator is met.
17. The decision of the State Engineer shall have no precedential or evidentiary force, shall not
create any presumptions, shift the burden of proof, or serve as a defense in any water court
case or any other legal action that may be initiated concerning the SWSP. This decision shall
not bind the State Engineer to act in a similar manner in any other applications involving other
plans or in any proposed renewal of this plan, and shall not imply concurrence with any
findings of fact or conclusions of law contained herein, or with the engineering methodologies
used by the Applicant.
If you have any questions concerning this approval, please contact Dean Santistevan in Greeley
at [phone] or Karlyn Armstrong in Denver at [phone].
Sincerely,
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Jeffeatherage, P.E.,
ief of Water Supply
Attachments: Tables 1, 2, 4, and 5
Figure 4 — Final Reclamation Map
Aurora Water Lease
2015 Augmentation Delivery Schedule
Administration Protocol 'Augmentation Plan Accounting, Division One — South Platte River"