2015-12-30_HYDROLOGY - M1999069

• Permit No: M1999069
• IBM Index Class Name: HYDROLOGY
• Doc Date: 12/30/2015
• Doc Name: Substitute Water Supply Plan
• From: DWR
• To: DRMS
• Email Name: ECS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES
Mr. Todd Williams, P.E.
Williams and Weiss Consulting, LLC
5255 Ronald Reagan Boulevard, Ste 220
Johnstown, CO 80534
December 21, 2015
RE: Wagner -Kauffman No. 3 Substitute Water Supply Plan (WDID 0402529)
Wagner -Kauffman No. 3 Pit, DRMS No. M-1999-069 (WDID 0403008)
Sections 17, 20 and 21, T5N, R68W, 6th P.M.
Water Division 1, Water District 4, Larimer County
Approval Period: January 1, 2016 through December 31, 2016
Contact Phone Number for Mr. Todd Williams: 303-653-3940
Dear Mr. Williams:
John W. Hickenlooper
Governor
Mike King
Executive Director
Dick Wolfe, P.E.
Director/State Engineer
RECEIVED
DEC 3 0 2015
OMSION OF RECLAMATION,
MINING AND SAFETY
We have reviewed your letter dated November 13, 2015 requesting renewal of the above
referenced substitute water supply plan for a sand and gravel pit on behalf of Jake Kauffman and Son,
Inc. The required fee of $257.00 for the renewal of this substitute water supply plan has been
submitted (receipt number 3672339). The original supply plan was approved on December 16, 1999,
and was most recently approved on December 22, 2014 for operations through December 31, 2015.
SWSP Operation
This plan seeks to replace depletions resulting from mining operations at the
Wagner/Kauffman No. 3 Pit ("W -K #3 Pit"). The W -K #3 Pit (WDID 0403008, well permit no. 65258-F)
is located in Larimer County in portions of Sections 17, 20 and 21, Township 5 North, Range 68 West
of the 6th P.M. Mining activities at the W -K #3 Pit are complete but reclamation activities will
continue into 2016. The site contains two pits that will be lined, and a dewatering trench. The liner
for the pit in the northwest portion of the site is still undergoing construction. The pit in the center
of the site was fully lined and the liner test initiated in 2013, however the test was suspended prior
to completion due to flooding that occurred in September 2013. As required by the previous SWSP
approval, the Applicant has been monitoring the water level in the lined gravel pit (as dewatering
occurred in 2014 and 2015) to be sure that the liner for the pit was not damaged during the 2013
flood and is not intercepting ground water. The monitoring done in 2014 and 2015 by the Applicant
revealed that the compacted clay liner is intact, the lined pit is not intercepting groundwater and
the lined pit is not storing any out -of -priority surface water. In 2016 the Applicant plans to complete
the dewatering process, remove the silt from the reservoir area that accumulated during 2013 floods
and reinitiate the required leak test.
During this SWSP approval period depletions will be limited to evaporative losses from
exposed ground water in the dewatering trench at the northwest gravel pit as shown on attached
Map 3. The replacement water will be supplied by a lease from the City of Loveland.
Office of the State Engineer
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