2015-09-17_PERMIT FILE - C1984065 ‎(3)‎

• Permit No: C1984065
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 9/17/2015
• Section_Exhibit Name: 4.0 Exhibit and Figures
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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• DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISIOFi N0. 5, COLORADO
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Application No. 88CW232
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RULING OF REFEREE
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IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION FOR WATER RIGHTS OF STORM KING MINES, INC.,
IN THE COLORADO RIVER, OR ITS TRIBUTARIES, TRIBUTARY INVOLVED: UNNAMED, IFi
GARFIELD COUNTY
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The above entitled Application was filed on June 23, 1988, and was
referred to the undersigned as Water Referee for Water Division Flo. 5, State
of Colorado.: by the Water Judge of said Court on the 14th day of July, 1988,
in accordance with Article 92 of Chapter 31, Colorado Revised Statutes 1973,
known as The Nater Right Determination and Administration Act of 1969.
And the undersigned Referee having made such investigations as are
necessary to determine whether or not the statements in the Application are
true and having become fully advised with respect to the subject matter of the
Application does hereby make the following determination and Ruling as the
Referee in this matter, to wit:
1. The statements in the Application are true.
• 2. The name of the structure is Coal Ridge Reservoir.
3. The name and address of the Claimant: Storm King Mines, Inc.; c/o
Charles M. Stoddard, Esq.; P. 0. Box 697; Glenwood Springs, Colorado 81602.
4. The source of the water is the Colorado River through Coal Ridge
Pump and Pipeline and the Vulcan Ditch.
5. The center of the dam axis is located in Section 35, T. 5 S., R. 90
W. of the 6th P.M. at a point 1,900 feet West of the East line and 210 feet
North of the South line of said Section 35.
6. The use of the water is municipal, commercial, industrial,
domestic, irrigation and recreation purposes.
7. The date of initiation of Appropriation is September 14, 1983.
8. The amount of water claimed is 2,000 acre feet of water,
conditional.
9. On June 11, 1984, in Case No. 83CW368, the Water Referee for Water
Division No. 5 awarded to Coal Ridge Reservoir, a conditional water right of
2,000 acre feet of water, to be used for municipal, commercial, industrial,
domestic, irrigation and recreation purposes, with Appropriation date of
. September 14, 1983. The Claimant was directed to file an Application for
Quadrennial Finding of Reasonable Diligence in the development of this
conditional water right in June of 1988 to maintain said conditional water
right in full force and effect. This Ruling of Referee was confirmed and made
a Decree of the Court on July 9, 1984.
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