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Amended Aggregate Industries South Platte Combined SWSP August 27, 2019 Plan I Ds 3614, 47731 3624, 47721 4616, 3437, 3376, 3650, 3668, and 5475 Page 8 of 21 The 3 GIC shares leased by the Applicant are therefore expected to yield a consumptive use amount of 30.93 acre-feet per year (10.31 acre-feet/share x 3 shares = 30.93 acre-feet). The ditch-wide analysis decreed in case no. 1996CW658 determined the acreage irrigated with GIC water rights was 3,501 acres, or 6.74 acres per share. Of that, 2,098 acres were determined to have been dried up as a result of development ("dry-up pool"). The total required dry-up associated with the subject 3 shares is 20.22 acres. Of the 3 GIC shares, 1.5 shares were used to irrigate 2.15 acres identified as Farm E-73a, and the remaining 1.5 shares were used to irrigate 7.06 acres identified as Farm E-73b. The acreage historically irrigated by the subject shares is below the irrigated-acreage-per-share historical average of 6.74. As such, the Applicant may claim the remaining 11.01 acres of required dry-up from the "dry-up pool". The subject farms are no longer irrigated. In paragraph 6.7.4. of the decree entered in case no. 1996CW658, future farm headgate deliveries of the 67.75 shares owned by Poudre Prairie Irrigation Company were limited to 1,712 acre-feet per year (25.26 acre-feet per share) and 12,631 acre-feet (186.43 acre-feet per share) in any consecutive 10 year period. For the purposes of this one-year SWSP, deliveries of GIC direct flow water associated with the 3 shares must be limited to a farm headgate delivery of 55.8 acre-feet (18.6 acre-feet per share). The historical return flows associated with the 3 shares that are the subject of this SWSP shall be maintained in accordance with the return flow factors identified in case no. 1996CW658. The return flow obligations will be accounted for and replaced under this SWSP. For the purposes of this SWSP, you have used a projected yield of 20.31 acre-feet of GIC direct flow water per share and 1.19 acre-feet of Fossil Creek Reservoir deliveries per share. These amounts are consistent with projected deliveries per share for Year One as described in paragraph 28 of the decree entered in case no. 2003CW348. Projected deliveries for Year One were calculated in accordance with paragraph 20.3.3 of the decree entered in case no. 2003CW99, and are based on 2002-2006 recorded deliveries. As specified in case no. 1996CW658, all GIC direct flow deliveries incur an immediate surface return flow obligation of 23.7%, and all Fossil Creek deliveries incur an immediate surface return flow obligation of 20.1%. The estimated consumptive use credit is therefore 15.50 acre-feet per share for GIC direct flow water, and 0.95 acre-feet per share for Fossil Creek Reservoir water. For the purposes of this SWSP, Aggregate is assuming that the GIC's 60 preferred rights in Fossil Creek Reservoir will not be available to GIC during WY2019. Excluding the Fossil Creek Reservoir component of the GIC deliveries, the projected yield of the three shares will equal 60.93 acre-feet per year (3 shares x 20.31 acre-feet/share), with a return flow obligation of 21.37 acre-feet. Actual deliveries, which were overall lower than projected deliveries, were used for the months of April and May 2019, resulting in a revised projected consumptive use credit of 59.41, with a revised return flow obligation of 20.99 acre-feet. The total consumptive use credit for the 3 shares is therefore projected to equal 38.42 acre-feet for 2019. The GIC shares will be delivered back to the river through the 23rd Avenue and Fourth Street Return Station St. Wain River Projected Replacement Sources 2019 Yield Comments acre-feet Martin Marietta lease 14.0 Annual lease Martin Marietta Lease Aggregate has entered into a water lease agreement with Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. for