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Ruling and Decree <br /> Case No.2009CW271 <br /> City of Longmont <br /> priority depletions will be replaced using the historical net stream depletions attributable to <br /> Longmont's interests in the Coffin Davis Ditch, and, as necessary, other sources of water owned <br /> by Longmont that have been decreed for augmentation purposes. The Coffin Davis Ditch diverts <br /> water from Dry Creek, a tributary of the St. Vrain, and has historically been used for irrigation <br /> within the Mine Permit Area, as well as on approximately 36 acres located outside the Mine <br /> Permit Area. A change of water right for the Coffin Davis Ditch is approved herein, in addition <br /> to appropriative rights of exchange to facilitate storage of the changed Coffin Davis Ditch water <br /> in Union Reservoir. This Ruling and Decree also confirms a new surface water right,to be <br /> diverted and used,when available in-priority at any time of the year, to support the open space <br /> purposes of the Project. <br /> II. Change of water right. <br /> 6. Description of decreed water right changed herein. <br /> A. Name of structure. Coffin Davis Ditch. <br /> B. Date of original and all relevant subsequent decrees. <br /> i. Original. The original decree for the Coffin Davis Ditch was <br /> entered on June 2, 1882, in Civil Action No. 1327, District Court, Boulder County,Colorado. <br /> ii. Prior change. A decree was entered on August 28, 1981 in Case <br /> No. 81CW06, District Court, Water Division No. 1 (the "1981 Decree"), changing 17.3 c.f.s. of <br /> Priority 31 to the alternate point of diversion described below. <br /> C. Decreed legal description of structure. <br /> i. Original point of diversion. On the south bank of St. Vrain Creek, <br /> approximately 40 rods north of the Southeast corner of the EY2 SE% of Section 12,Township 2 <br /> North,Range 69 West, 6th P.M., Boulder County, Colorado. <br /> ii. Alternate point. In the SW% of Section 7, Township 2 North, <br /> Range 68 West, 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado, at a point commencing at the SW corner of <br /> Section 7, whence the West one-quarter corner of said Section 7 bears North 00°00'00"East, <br /> thence North 88°03'49"East 999.07 feet to the point of diversion, as depicted on the attached <br /> Exhibit B. <br /> D. Decreed source of water. St. Vrain Creek; 17.3 c.f.s. changed by the 1981 <br /> Decree to Dry Creek, a tributary of St. Vrain Creek, as an alternate point of diversion. <br /> E. Appropriation date. June 1, 1866(Priority 31); June 1, 1871 (Priority 45). <br /> 3 <br />