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126622 Filed for record at 10:45 o'clock A.M., August 22, 1979.
<br /> Duly recorded in Book 191, Pages 981 and .981 Addis A. Im, Recorder.
<br /> . APR 1 61979
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<br /> IN AND FOR {CATER DISTRI-CT NO. 4 a
<br /> STATE OF COLORADO t WA'ta CLO
<br /> Case No. W-2991
<br /> p£NU'IY
<br /> IN X4E"2A�`TTtR OF THE APPLICATION FOR )
<br /> WATER RIGHTS OF REYNOLDS MINING
<br /> COMPANY, a Limited Partnership, of ) RULING OF WATER REFEREE
<br /> the STATE OF COLORADO, IN THE )
<br /> UNCOMPA1iGRE RIVER IN OURAY COUNTY )
<br /> = The Applicant, The Reynolds MiningCompany,
<br /> p y, a Limited
<br /> Partnership of the State of Colorado, by and through their
<br /> attorney, W. B. Tourtillott, Jr. , 802 Capitol Life Center,
<br /> 225 East 16th Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80203, and requests
<br /> a water storage right for domestic, fire protection, mining,
<br /> milling, and power purposes. Filed December 30, 1976.
<br /> No opposition has been filed.
<br /> Applicant filed a Notion to correct or in the Alternative
<br /> a Protest of the Ruling of Water Referee entered March 8, 1979
<br /> setting forth as grounds that the location of Lake Reservoir
<br /> is in Ouray County, Colorado and the source of water is 5neffles
<br /> Creek, tributary to the Uncompahgre River as republished in
<br /> November, 1978.
<br /> FINDING OF FACT
<br /> The Lake Reservoir has as a source of water supply Sneffles
<br /> Creek, a tributary of the Uncompahgre River in Ouray County in
<br /> the old Water District No. 68.
<br /> Said Reservoir is described as being located in accordance
<br /> with a map and statements No. 5049 filed with the State Engineer
<br /> on August 20, 1908. Point of discharge is located at a point
<br /> whence Corner Number 3 of Survey Number 1318B, Mt. sneffels Mill
<br /> Site bears North 57' East, 295 feet in Section 21, Township 43
<br /> North, Range 6 West of the N.m.P.M.
<br /> Said Reservoir has a dam 13 feet in height, 333 feet in
<br /> length, and a total storage capacity of 24.74 acre-feet, 23..55
<br /> acre-feet of which is active capacity and 1.19 acre-feet which
<br /> is dead storage.
<br /> 24.74 acre-feet of storage water is claimed for domestic,
<br /> fire protection, mining, milling, and power purposes as of
<br /> appropriation date of September 12, 1905, 'when it was first
<br /> used for the stated purposes by the 11t. 5neffels brill.
<br /> RULING
<br /> IT IS THE CORRECTED RULING OF THE REFEREE that water has
<br /> been appropriated and applied beneficially and that the Lake
<br /> Reservoir is APPROVED AND GRANTED AN ABSOLUTE DECREE for the
<br /> use and benefit of the parties lawfully entitled thereto for i
<br /> an amount of storage not to exceed 24.74 acre-feat for domestic,
<br /> fire protection, mining, milling, and power purposes with a
<br /> 1976 Priority and an appropriation date of September 12, 1905.
<br /> DATED -I_ Z2
<br /> F. L. F]ILSOI]
<br /> 'o pretCnt mac filed 3n th,q natter. ire
<br /> od :orereid, ruling i oarthi:�edrid t1p];rpti•ed, and is meda theudg eAt tad Decree of this court, iafta, Division Ivo. 4
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