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Mr. Paul Bruss, P.E. August 8, 2018 Page 4 of 7 the Hamp-Bell Ditch water rights changed in Division 2 Water Court case no. 03CW8 and subject to the April 2004 agreement (amended March 2007) between Transit Mix and Pueblo Board of Water Works ("PBWW"). The second is consumable water leased from the PBWW. Transit Mix currently has a lease with PBWW that will provide 120 acre-feet of fully consumable water annually through September 30, 2022. Additionally, Transit Mix has secured a one-time lease of 1,550 acre-feet of fully consumable water from PBWW for operations at the Pueblo East Pit through March 31, 2019. The third is 60 shares of Twin Lakes Reservoir water owned by Transit Mix that are primarily used for Transit Mix's Grisenti Pit under a separate SWSP (ID 4625), but typically provide excess water available for this SWSP, should it be needed. For purposes of this SWSP, only the transmountain component of the subject Twin Lakes Reservoir shares may be considered available to be used as a replacement supply herein. The excess credits from the Hamp-Bell Ditch water rights were changed in Division 2 Water Court case no. 03CW8 to commercial and augmentation uses. As decreed by the Division 2 Water Court in case no. 12CW102, PBWW obtained the right to store the Hamp-Bell Ditch credits changed in case no. 03CW8; therefore, Transit Mix is no longer responsible for replacing the winter return flow obligation associated with the Hamp-Bell Ditch water rights, and will only be entitled to use the net excess credits after full augmentation of Chain of Lakes depletions and replacement of winter delayed return flows, which will average approximately 10.0 acre-feet annually. The projected depletions, credits, and releases subject of this SWSP are shown on the attached Table 5. The State and Division Engineers have reviewed the plan and the adequacy of each source of water provided for use as augmentation water, including, where necessary, the historical consumptive use of each water right, and return flows from diversion of waters imported into the Arkansas River Basin or other fully consumable waters proposed for use as augmentation water. CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL This SWSP is hereby approved pursuant to Section 37-90-137(11), C.R.S., subject to the following conditions: 1. This current plan shall be valid August 1, 2018 through July 31, 2020, unless otherwise revoked or superseded by decree. The approval of this SWSP supersedes the previous SWSP dated April 12, 2018. If this plan will not be made absolute by a water court action by the plan's expiration date, a renewal request must be submitted to this office and the Division 2 office (please copy Kathy Trask at Kathy.Trask@state.co.us) with the statutory fee (currently $257) no later than May 1, 2020. 2. Well permit nos. 75997-F and 80662-F were obtained for the current use and exposed pond surface area of the gravel pit in accordance with Section 37-90-137(2) and (11), C.R.S. Well permit application receipt no. 3687189 was received by this office on July 5, 2018 to change or increase the use of existing well permit no. 80662-F, and will be evaluated subsequent to approval of this SWSP.