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2 • <br />~` CU~O <br />r <br />'~~~c '~, <br />RICHARD D. LAMM Ft C <br />Governor ^~ p <br />.~ ~ <br />rBTg <br />DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Sherman Street -Room 818 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Administration 1303) 892-3581 <br />Ground Water 1303)892-3587 <br />February 15, 1977 <br />iii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii <br />999 <br />C.J. KUIPER <br />State Engineer <br />RE~~EIVED <br />FFQ 1 b'=~' <br />Cc!o. Co;:'. cf P'-`•1:?! res~~lrces <br />MEMORANDUM <br />T0: HARRIS D. SHERMAN, SECRETARY, MINED LAND RECLAMATION BOARD <br />FROM: DR. JERIS A. DANIELSON, DEPUTY STATE ENGINEER <br />SUBJECT: STERLING READY-MIX, LOGAN COUNTY, APPLICATION FOR MINING AND <br />RECLAMATION PERMIT <br />We have received additional information concerning the above referenced <br />application and the following comments are provided for your consideration: <br />I. The applicant proposes to use a portion of the water right <br />he owns in the Lowline Ditch to augment the South Platte <br />River for depletions resulting from evaporation of water <br />from the proposed gravel pit lakes. The Lowline Ditch has <br />averaged in excess of 6,000 acre-feet in diversions for the <br />period of 1950-1971 according to the applicant's engineer. <br />2. The mining plan will proceed over a period of approximate l}' <br />30 years and the amount of lake surface to be exposed <br />annually is set forth in Table 2. By the year 2004, the <br />annual evaporation is estimated to be approximately 65 acre~- <br />feet. Of this amount, 51.80 acre-feet is expected to occur <br />in the irrigation season when a demand for water normally <br />occurs. <br />3. In order to assure adequate protection of other water right; <br />owners, the applicant must also remove irrigated land from <br />production to balance historic consumptive use with the <br />consumptive use resulting from this gravel mining operation. <br />The land irrigated by the applicant's water right is used <br />to produce corn which consumptively uses approximately 18 <br />to 20 inches of irrigation water per year. Therefore, by <br />the year 2004, approximately 34.5 acres of irrigated land <br />will have to be removed from irrigation to compensate for <br />the new consumptive use. <br /> <br />