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FINDINGS OF THE STATE ENGINEER IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION FOR A PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT A WELL (GRAVEL PIT) IN WATER DIVISION NO. 1, MORGAN COUNTY, COLORADO APPLICANT: BUILDER'S AGGREGATE CO., INC. FILE NO.: AD- In compliance with C.R.S. 37-90-137(1), Builder's Aggregate Co., Inc., 915 W. Beaver Ave., Fort Morgan, Colorado 80701, (hereinafter "applicant") submitted an application for a permit to construct and reactivate a pre-January 1, 1981 gravel pit. Based on information provided by the applicant and records of the Division of Water Resources, the State Engineer finds as follows: 1. The application was received complete by the State Engineer on February 4, 1993. 2. The proposed gravel pit will be located in the S1/2 of the NW1/4 of Section 31, Township 4 North, Range 58 West, 6th Principal Meridian. 3. The proposed location is outside the boundaries of a designated ground water basin. 4. The applicant proposes to expose 4.57 surface acres of water in the gravel pit. This situation will cause evaporative losses from the pond. Additional beneficial uses causing losses may include stream carriage losses, water hauled off in the product, dust suppression, and washing the sand and gravel. 5. At the proposed depth of 30 feet, the pit will expose ground water and be hydraulically connected to Bijou Creek which is a tributary of the South Platte River System. Diversion of ground water by the gravel pit will influence the rate or direction of movement of water in those natural streams and their alluvium. 6. Bijou Creek and the South Platte River System are overappropriated. At some or all times of the year, the water supplies of said stream systems are insufficient to satisfy all the decreed water rights senior to an appropriation by the applicant. 7. The inadvertent and unavoidable losses from the subject gravel pit pond and the associated operation would cause depletion to Bijou Creek and the South Platte River System at times when these streams are overappropriated. 8. Records show that there are senior vested water rights withdrawing ground water from the alluvium of Bijou Creek and the South Platte River. The applicant's proposed use would decrease the amount of ground water in the alluvium of said streams. 9. The boundaries of the proposed gravel pit may be located less than 600 feet from an existing well, permit no. 8630-R. 10. No plan for augmentation to remedy the injury to vested water rights has been approved by the Division 1 Water Court. 11. A substitute water supply plan providing augmentation to remedy the injury to vested water rights has not been approved by the State Engineer.