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Temporary Substitute Supply Plan -Line Camp, Montezuma County, SEP 2004, Page 24 administrative Water Year) shall be submitted together with the plan ancloross-sectional drawings of the piton 8.5x11 paper, showing the initial static water level and the intended final water level, the current extent of excavation, the maximum depth of the pit, and the maximum surface area of ground water exposed within the pit during the reported water year. 3. The person responsible for implementing the plan and accounting for consumption is: Mr. Aryol Brumley, Manager, Four States Aggregates, LLC PO Box 1568, Cortez, CO 81321 (970)565-3388 F. Permanent Supply A change of use will besought for the Home Ditch water rights so that they may be used as a permanent source of augmentation water for the Line Camp ponds. The applications to the Water Court are ready for submission when this current plan is approved by CDWR/SEO. Although it is about four years #o the completion of mining, the obtaining of a decree for a permanent augmentation plan within this time is not certain. Therefore, it is proposed that an extension be granted to the date within three years following completion of extraction and reclamation, or based on the estimates in these plans, by 2010. G. Well Permit Application and Adjacent Wells 1. Records of the Colorado Division of Water Resources were reviewed to determine if there were any registered wells or wells in registration within 600 feet of the perimeter of the Line Camp Pit wells described herein. There are no wells identified as located within 600 feet of the proposed gravel pit wells of this application. The nearest well located adjacent to the pit wells is owned by the owner of the land and Home Ditch, and is approximately 850 feet from the nearest (northeast) corner of the pit wells assuming the entire pit is below the ground water level. This point will be reached only during year five of the extraction, and will be backfilled during reclamation. 2. A gravel pit well permit application has been submitted under separate cover. 3. A gravel pit dewatering well application has been submitted under separate cover. H. General Administrative Information 1. This substitute water supply plan application for a sand and gravel pit is submitted in accordance with 37-80-120 C.R.S. The Applicant, Four States Aggregates LLC, accepts responsibility for compliance with this plan, but understands that the State Engineer's Office may also pursue the Landowner and his successors for eventual compliance. 2. In accordance with 37-80-120 C.R.S., as all substitute water requirements are met by water rights already belonging to the Landowner and no additional water rights are required, it is requested that the fee for the substitute water supply plan be waived. 3. No ground water was exposed by mining prior to January 1, 1981. 4. A permanent change of use/augmentation plan will be required because a permanent free water surface will remain at the site after mining and reclamation is completed. 5. The Line Camp Pit is approximately 200 feet from the Dolores River. No analysis of delayed depletions due to groundwater movement is being submitted. It is understood that if such an analysis is completed, that the CDWR will prepare and provide to the applicant for inclusion in this plan. Following the completion of mining and reclamation, it is planned that the Home Ditch will continue to be used to maintain surface diversions from the Dolores River through the planned ponds and returning to the river, so depletions due to evaporation will accrue immediately to the river. Since all depletions due to the pit are assumed to be out-of-priority and will be replaced by this plan, and since all replacement releases are already historic consumptive use, we believe that the simplifying assumption that depletions from the Line Camp Pit during sand extraction operations will accrue immediately to the river is appropriate.