HYDRO24446

• Permit No: M1987171
• IBM Index Class Name: Hydrology
• Doc Date: 2/5/2003
• Doc Name: SEO Correspondence
• From: SEO
• To: DMG
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

OFFICE OF THE STATE ENGINEER
Division of Water Resources
Deparonent of Natural Resources
1373 Sherman Street, Room 818
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone [phone]
FAX [phone]
wvvwwatecsffie.CO.us
Gary B. Thompson
W.W. Wheeler and Associates, Inc.
3700 South Inca Street
Englewood, CO 80110
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February 3, 2003 FEB ~ 5 2003 Bill Owens
Governor
Greg E. Walther
Division of Minerals and Geology Executlve Director
Hal D. 6impwn, P.E.
State Engineer
RE: Fountain/Kiewit Gravel Quarry Substitute Water Supply Plan
Sec. 20, Ti6S, R65W, 6t6 P.M.
Water Division 2, Water District 10
Dear Mr. Thompson:
We have received your November 29, 2002 letter submitted on behalf of the City of
Fountain requesting a substitute water supply plan to provide water to the Fountain Colony Pit
(DMG no. M-87-171), a gravel quarry located within the city for which the operator is Kiewit
Western Co. This request is submitted pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-308(4), referencing the plan
for augmentation applied for in case no. 02CW 132. Notice has been provided to the objectors
in case no. 02CW 132, and our office received comments from one objector 31 days after notice
was sent.
While the quarry will be dry mined above the ground water table, water will be required
for gravel washing, dust suppression, concrete and asphalt production, equipment washing, and
irrigation for site reclamation. Water will be diverted directly out of Fountain Creek at the
location oT the existing diversion dam of-the Owen and F#atl~fJitch in section 20 and pumped
approximately 1 mile northwest to the quarry, which will be located mainly in section 18.
Diversions would occur at a maximum rate of 2 cfs, and would total up to 300 acre-feet per year.
All diversions will be considered 100% consumed.
Depletions to Fountain Creek will be replaced using excess replacement water available
from the City of Fountain's previously decreed augmentation plans that cover pumping of its
existing alluvial wells. The City's Fountain Mutual Irrigation Company shares, Womack Ditch
rights, and Fry-Ark supplies are decreed as sources of augmentation water in case nos. W-4396
and 85CW110. Except for rare occasions, these available augmentation sources exceed the
replacement requirements of the City's existing municipal wells.
The State and Division Engineers have reviewed the plan and the adequacy of each
source of water provided for use as augmentation water, including, where necessary, the
historical consumptive use of each water right, and return flows from diversion of waters
imported into the Arkansas River Basin or other fully consumable waters proposed for use as
augmentation water. In accordance with Section 25-8-202(7), C.R.S. and Senate Bill 89-181
Rules and Regulations adopted on February 4, 1992, the State Engineer has determined that
subject to the terms and conditions below, the replacement supply is of a quality to meet the
requirements of use to senior appropriators.