2018-11-07_HYDROLOGY - M1982131

• Permit No: M1982131
• IBM Index Class Name: HYDROLOGY
• Doc Date: 11/7/2018
• Doc Name: Substitute Water Supply Plan
• From: DWR
• To: Applegate Group, Inc. / Bucklen Equipment Company, Inc.
• Email Name: ECS
• Email Name: MAC
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Bucklen Pit SWSP November 7, 2018
Plan ID 3183 Page 9 of 9
plan expire without renewal or be revoked prior to adjudication of a permanent plan for
augmentation, all excavation of product from below the water table, and all other use of
water at the pit, must cease immediately.
20. In accordance with amendments to § 25-8-202(7), C.R.S., and "Senate Bill 89-181 Rules and
Regulations" adopted on February 4, 1992, the State Engineer shall determine if this
substitute water supply plan is of a quality to meet requirements of use to which the senior
appropriation receiving the substitute supply has normally been put. As such, water quality
data or analyses may be requested at any time to determine if the requirement of use of the
senior appropriator is met.
21. The decision of the State Engineer shall have no precedential or evidentiary force, shall not
create any presumptions, shift the burden of proof, or serve as a defense in any water court
case or any other legal action that may be initiated concerning this substitute water supply
plan. This decision shall not bind the State Engineer to act in a similar manner in any other
applications involving other SWSPs, or in any proposed renewal of this SWSP, and shall not
imply concurrence with any findings of fact or conclusions of law contained herein, or with
the engineering methodologies used by the Applicant.
Please contact Sarah Brucker in Denver at [phone], or Michael Hein in Greeley at (970)
352-8712, if you have any questions concerning this approval.
Sincerely,
for Jeff Deatherage, P.E.
Chief of Water Supply
Attachments: Figure 2
Tables 1 - 5
PRPA Lease Agreement
Letter from DRMS dated April 30, 2010
Affidavit for dedication of GIC shares to this SWSP
Division One Administration Protocols: "Use of Replacement Sources Not Specifically
Identified in an SWSP or Augmentation Plan" and "Augmentation Plan
Accounting, Division One - South Platte Basin"
Cc: Michael Hein, Lead Assistant Division Engineer, Michael.Hein®state.co.us
810 9th Street, Suite 200, Greeley, CO 80631
Brent Schantz, River Operations/Compact Coordinator, [e-mail]
Jorge Vidal, Water Commissioner, Water District 2, [e-mail]
Mark Simpson, Water Commissioner, Water District 3, [e-mail]
Eric Scott, Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety, [e-mail]