2017-01-09_HYDROLOGY - M1977572

• Permit No: M1977572
• IBM Index Class Name: Hydrology
• Doc Date: 1/9/2017
• Doc Name Note: Comments 6/1/2016-3/31/2017
• Doc Name: Comments 6/1/2016-3/31/2017
• From: DNR Water Resources
• To: DRMS
• Email Name: AME
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

RECEIVED
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i Department of Natural Resources OIViSION OF RECLAMATION
MINNGMND SAFETY Robert Randall
Executive Director
January 6, 2017 Dick Wolfe, P.E.
Director/State Engineer
Daniel J. Gillham, P.E. RECEIVED
Helton & Williamsen, P.C. ,-JAN 09 2017
384 Inverness Parkway, Suite 144
Englewood, CO 80112-5822 DIVISION OF RECLAMATION
MINING AND SAFETY
RE: Lamar East Pit (North Gateway Park Ponds) Substitute Water Supply Plan
DRMS Permit No. M-77 72
Section 29, Township Z2S, Range 46W, Sixth P.M.
Water Division 2, Water District 67
SWSP ID 116, WDID 6707855
Plan Period: June 1, 2016 through March 31, 2017
Contact Phone Number: 303-792-2161
Contact Email: [e-mail]
Dear Mr. Gillham:
We have reviewed your May 25, 2016 letter requesting a substitute water supply plan ("SWSP")
in accordance with § 37-90-137(11), C.R.S., to cover depletions caused by mining operations at
the Lamar East Pit, which has been transferred from the previous owner, Valco, Inc., to the City
of Lamar ("Lamar"). The required $257 fee for the renewal of this SWSP has been submitted
(receipt no. 3674793). The previous SWSP was approved pursuant to Section 37-90-137(11),
C.R.S., with an expiration date of May 31, 2016. The Lamar East Gravel Pit was previously
renamed as the Lamar North Gateway Park Pond Nos. 1, 2 and 3 ("North Gateway Park Ponds" or
"Ponds"), and will be referred to as such with the renewal of this SWSP.
On December 18, 2013 Lamar made application for approval of a plan for augmentation and
appropriative right of exchange concerning the North Gateway Park Ponds in Division 2 Water
Court case no. 13CW3060. According to the May 25, 2016 SWSP request, Lamar is proposing to
utilize water provided by Colorado Parks and Wildlife ("CPW") by agreement dated March 29,
2016. Said water will be from the CPW water portfolio available from the Water Management
Agreement between CPW and the Lower Arkansas Water Management Association ("LAWMA")
and is not listed as a source of replacement water in the plan for augmentation and
appropriative right of exchange decreed in Division 2 Water Court case no. 13CW3060; therefore,
this SWSP request has been evaluated and approved pursuant to Section 37-90-137(11), C.R.S.
The Applicant has requested an approval period from November 1, 2015 through May 31, 2017
for this SWSP due to the increase in exposed ground water area during the 2015-2016 SWSP
period. For this office to amend an existing SWSP, a new application must be submitted at or
before the time the change is required. Since this application was not received until May 25,
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