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3 ' <br />Application of Bowie Resources, Limited <br />Case No. 99 CW 263 <br />Ruling of Referee and Dettee <br />Page 2 <br />2. Statements of Opposition were filed to the Application by Mountain Coal Company, <br />L.L.C. ("Mountain Coal"), Terror Ditch Company ("Ditch Company"), and the United States of <br />America, acting through the Bureau of Land Management ("BLM"} and U.S.D.A. Forest Service <br />("Forest Service"). All of these Opposers have consented to the entry of this Ruling pursuant to <br />stipulations between the Opposers and Applicant, which stipulations have been filed with the Court. <br />3. Each water right claimed in the Application is a feature of a single project or <br />integrated system consisting of all of the water rights claimed in the Application. <br />Findings Re: First Claim for Relief <br />(Storage Rights for Bowie Sedimentation Ponds) <br />4. The names of the structures are Bowie Sedimentation Ponds B, C, and D. <br />5. The legal descriptions of the locations of the Bowie Sedimentation Ponds are as <br />follows: <br />Bowie Sedimentation Pond B: Located in the NW 1/4 SEI/4, Section 15, Township <br />13 South, Range 91 West, 6th P.M., at a point 2,236 feet from the South line and <br />2,237 feet from the East Line of said Section I5. <br />Bowie Sedimentation Pond C: Located in the SE1/4 NE1/4, Section 15, Township <br />13 South, Range 91 West, 6th P.M., at a point 1,407 feet from the North line and 414 <br />feet from the East Line of said Section 15. <br />Bowie Sedimentation Pond D: Located in the SE1/4 NE1/4, Section 15, Township <br />13 South, Range 91 West, 6th P.M., at a point 1,495 feet from the North line and 565 <br />feet from the East Line of said Section 15. <br />Figure 1, attached hereto, is a map showing the locations of the Bowie Sedimentation Ponds. <br />6. Natural runoff occurring above each pond will flow into and be a source for each of <br />the Bowie Sedimentation Ponds. The sources for the Bowie Sedimentation Ponds are tributary to <br />the North Fork of the Gunnison River. <br />The dates of appropriation for the Bowie Sedimentation Ponds aze as follows: May <br />12, 1999 for Pond B and February 9, 1996 for Ponds C and D. The appropriation was initiated by <br />survey, physical inspection and design of the ponds, together with the formation of the intent to <br />appropriate water as described in the Application and other acts in furtherance of the appropriation. <br />• <br />• <br />• <br />