2019-07-01_INSPECTION - M2001022

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Case No. 09CW105 Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, Judgment and Decree Page 2 of 28 Users Association, and Town of Johnstown. Statements of Opposition to the amended application were filed by Central Colorado Water Conservancy District and the Ground Water Management Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District and the Well Augmentation Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District (Central), and the City of Evans. No other Statements of Opposition have been filed and the time for filing Statements of Opposition has expired. 3. Summary of application: The application requests approval of a plan for augmentation to offset out of priority depletions for a number of gravel pits which expose tributary ground water in the Big Thompson River basin and other uses at the sites where those pits are located together with confirmation of conditional water rights for Walters Reservoir No. 1, Walters Reservoir No. 2 and Bokelman Reservoir No. 1 and conditional ground water rights for the unlined Walters Pits and Green and Croissant Pits and a change of water rights for 3 shares of the Consolidated Hillsborough Ditch Company. The gravel pits are mined under two separate mining permits, and are known as the Walters and Bokelman Pits, and the Green and Croissant Pits. Their locations are shown on Exhibit A, attached and incorporated by reference. LRM's mining plans at the Walters and Bokelman Pits and Green and Croissant Pits include excavation of mining"cells" located at each site. As described below, gravel pits are located within"cells"at each site. 3.1 Gravel pits located in seven cells at the Walters and Bokelman Pits site are shown on the attached Exhibit B. Gravel pits located in Walters Cells 1, 2 and 3 will be inside a slurry wall that does not intercept ground water, and therefore, these gravel pits will be lined pits that will not require augmentation of evaporative depletions. Gravel pits located in Walters Cell 4 will be unlined and therefore out of priority evaporative depletions from ground water exposed in these gravel pits shall be augmented pursuant to the plan for augmentation decreed herein. Gravel pits located in Bokelman Cells 1, 2 and 3 will be inside a slurry wall that does not intercept ground water, and therefore these gravel j pits will not require augmentation of evaporative depletions. i 3.1.1 Walters Reservoir No. 1 shall be located within lined Walters Cells 1 and 2 as shown on the attached Exhibit B. 3.1.2 Walters Reservoir No. 2 shall be located within lined Walters Cell 3 as shown on the attached Exhibit B. 3.1.3 Bokelman Reservoir No. 1 shall be located within lined Bokelman Cells 1 and 2 as shown on the attached Exhibit B. 3.2 Gravel pits located in four cells at the Green and Croissant Pits site are shown on the attached Exhibit B. All gravel pits located in the four cells will be unlined and therefore out of priority evaporative depletions from ground water exposed in these gravel pits shall be augmented pursuant to the plan for augmentation decreed herein.