HYDRO20551

• Permit No: M1981058
• IBM Index Class Name: Hydrology
• Doc Date: 7/14/2005
• Doc Name: substitute water supply plan
• From: office of the state engineer
• To: williams turner and holmes pc
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Mark A. Hermundstad
July 12, 2005
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must continue to obtain approval for a substitute supply plan that replaces all out-af-priority
depletions associated with the exposed ground water surface until such water court approval
occurs. If a lined pond results after reclamation, replacement of tagged depletions shall continue
until there is no longer an effect on stream flow.
10. This substitute water supply plan may be revoked or modified at any time should it be
determined that injury to other vested water rights has occurred or will occur as a result of the
operation of this plan.
11. Should this substitute water supply plan expire without renewal or be revoked prior to
adjudication of a permanent plan for augmentation, all excavation of product from below the
water table and all other use of water at the pit must cease immediately.
12. In accordance with amendments to CRS 25-8-202{7) and Senate Bill 89-181 Rules and
Regulations adopted on February 4, 1992, the State Engineer shall determine if the substitute
supply is of a quality to meet requirements of use to which the senior appropriation receiving the
substituted supply has normally been put. As such, water quality data or analyses may be
requested at any time to determine if the requirements of use of the senior appropriator are met.
13. Diversions attributable to 5.11 shares in the Larkin Ditch Company used for replacement during
the irrigation season must continue to be diverted in-priority at the ditch then measured back to
the Colorado River in the vicinity of the Debeque Pit. Adequate measuring clevices acceptable
to the Water Commissioner must be installed.
14. The 5.11 shares in the Larkin Ditch Company shall be committed to be used to cover
groundwater evaporation in the unforeseen event, or events, that would leacl to the
"abandonment of the pit. The 5:11 shares in the Larkin Ditch Company have an estimated-32.5
acre-feet of historic net stream depletions.: 'The maximum total mined area >hall be limited to 6
acres so that the historical consumptive use attributable to the 5.11 shares in the Larkin Ditch
.Company would cover the annual evaporation from the pit, in the case of abandonment.
15. The dry year analysis required by this office for a permanent plan for augme~ntafion-may vary
from the analysis approved in this substitute water supply plan. Approval of this substitute water
supply plan shall have no precedential or evidentiary force, does not constitute an admission or
statement of position in any other proceeding, and shall not imply concurrence with any findings
of fact or conclusions of law contained herein, or with the engineering methodologies used by
the Applicant.
Should you have any questions regarding this plan, please contact Alan Martellaro in Glen_wo_ od _
Springs at [phone], o~ Craig Lis fn-ISenver a~803'~~66~- 58~.
Sincerely, ~ 1
~W
ick Wolfe, P.E.
Assistant State Engineer
Attachment: Table 9, Water Balance
DW/CMUCJUDebeque Pit M81058 iii.doc
cc: Alan Martellaro, Division Engineer, Division 5
Don Mackey, District 45 Water Commissioner
Division of Minerals and Geology