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1110 ItI219111I111�1Sol111ill 111II1I11111111 <br /> � ee♦ 01:� tV <br /> .� 4 40.09 a e.e0 K e.ee h-, ATTACHMENT A <br /> WATER MANAgEMNT AGREEMENT <br /> THIS AGREEMENT, made this 2ND day of �vt�ST , 2000 between the State of <br /> Colorado acting by and through the Department of Natural Resources for the use and benefit <br /> of the Division of Wiildiife, hereinafter referred to as"the State" or"DOW," whose address <br /> is 6060 Broadway, Denver, Colorado 80216, and Lower Arkansas Water Management <br /> Association, hereinafter referred to as"LAWMA," whose address is P.O. Box 1161, Lamar, <br /> 3 Colorado 81052_ <br /> l <br /> ` WHEREAS, the State has an option to purchase 4720 shares of capital stock in the Lamar <br /> Canal and Irrigation Company(Lamar Canal), 408 shares of capital stock in the Fors Bent <br /> Canal Company(Fort Benz Canal), and 376 shares of stock in LAWMA which are currently <br /> used to irr�the property known as the Center Farm pursuant to a Real Estate Agrccment <br /> with Roth and Sons,Inc., dazed March 9, 2000, and <br /> WHEREAS, the transferable consmptive use water from the 4720 shares of Lamar Canal <br /> has been estimated ar approxdmately 3756 acre-foct per year and from the 408 shares of the <br /> Fort Bent has been estimated at approximately 305 acre-feet per year for the period of 1950- <br /> 1998 (DOW Waxer Shares), and further the LAWMA shares are estimated to be equivalent to <br /> 376 acre-feet of water per year; and <br /> 3 WHEREAS, the exercise of the option to purchase by DOW is contingent on the successful <br /> negotiation of a written agreement between the State and LAWMA; and <br /> WT-MRE.AS, the DOW Water Shares will be used for the protection and management of the <br /> ,�dldl','fe resources in the Arkansas Rives basin, which may include in some combination <br /> those using the Groat Plains Reservoirs, Sohn Martin Reservoir, Las Animas Hatchery; <br /> several state wildlife areas, and other locations iu the basin;and <br /> WHEREAS, in 1997, the DOW purchased the X-Y Ranch from LAWMA for wildlife <br /> management purposes along with the right to pump up to 1475 acre-feet of water on 676 <br /> acres of land on the Ranch for which LAWMA is responsible for repI.acemear of depictions; <br /> this obligation. by LAWMA is met by existing water rights in LAWMA's plan and the <br /> replacement of tine depletions from such X-Y pumping is not considered as a delivery for <br /> wildlife purposes under this agreemenr, and <br /> WHEREAS, LAWNIA owns or leases, for the benefit of its members, certain water rights <br /> diverting from the Arkansas River in Water District 67 including the X-Y Ditch; Manvel <br /> -1- <br />