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Findings of Fact,Conclusions of Law,Ruling of the Referee and Decree of the Water Court Thomas F.and Ginger L.Latham 23 C W 3022 Page 4 The model was run for a 20-year period. Monthly depletions attributed to evaporative losses from the additional 4.2 acres of exposed groundwater and the timing of those depletions to the Colorado River are presented in Table 1. 14. Description of Water Rights to be Changed and Used for Augmentation: A. The Applicants own 20.5 shares of the capital stock of the Larkin Irrigation Company, which has a total 90 shares issued and outstanding. The water rights represented by two of the Applicants' shares have been changed and dedicated to the plan for augmentation decreed in Case No. 05CW076. Larkin Ditch (the "Senior Larkin Right") i. Date Decree Entered: July 22, 1912 Civil Action No. 1927, Mesa County District Court By decree entered in Case No. W-14, certain changes to the Senior Larkin Right were approved, and a portion of the Senior Larkin Right was abandoned. ii. Type of water right: Surface (direct flow) iii. Legal description of point of diversion: The decreed point of diversion for the Larkin Ditch is described as follows: The headgate is situated on the southern bank of the Grand (Colorado) River in Mesa County, Colorado, whence the Southeast corner of the Southwest quarter of Section 27, Township 8 South, Range 97 West, 6th P.M. bears south 2°45' west 2,830 feet. iv. Source: Colorado River. V. Appropriation Date: April 1, 1888. i. Amount: 25.0 cfs First Enlargement of the Larkin Ditch(the "Junior Larkin Right") Date Decree Entered: Decreed conditional by decree dated September 20. 1972 and decreed absolute by decree dated October 31, 1973. Case No.: W-176, District Court in and for Water Division No. 5. ii. Type of water right: Surface (direct flow). iii. Legal description of point of diversion: Same point of diversion as described above for the Senior Larkin Right.