HYDRO24615

• Permit No: M1981058
• IBM Index Class Name: Hydrology
• Doc Date: 8/6/2007
• Doc Name: Substitute Water Supply Plan
• From: OSE
• To: Williams, Turner, & Holmes, P.C.
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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OFFICE OF THE STATE ENGINEER
Division of Water Resources
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 818
Denvar, Colorado 80203
Phone [phone]
FAX [phone]
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STATE OF COLORADO
r Kirsten M. Kurath, Esq.
Williams, Turner & Holmes, P.C.
P.O. Box 338
Grand Junction, CO 81502
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Augusts, 2007 ~CEIVED
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RE; 2006-2007 Substitute Water Supply Plan for
Debeque Pit (DMG #M-81-058a
Sections 8 8 9, T9S, R97W, 8 P,M.
Water Division 5, Water District 45, Mesa County
Period of Approval: May 17, 2006 through May 16, 2008
Dear Ms. Kurath:
Bill Ritter, Jr.
Governor
Hams D. Sherman
Executive Director
(Vacenr)
State Engineer
We have completed review of your March 13, 2006 request for renewal of the substitute water
supply plan for the Debeque Pit on behalf of Elam Construction and Tom and Ginger Latham
(hereinafter referred to as "Applicants"), in accordance with CRS 37-90-137(11). The required fee of
$217 for the renewal request has been submitted.
SWSP Operations
The anticipated net depletion for this plan is 22.7 acre-feet per year for up to 6.0 acres of water
surface exposed after December 31, 1980. According to the information submitted, no water surface
was exposed within the reclamation permit boundary prior to January 1, 1981.
You have provided a monthly breakdown of the annual depletions made up of 19.2 acre-feet of
evaporative loss, 2.5 acre-feet of water used and consumed for dust control, and 4.4 acre-feet of water
lost with the mined product. A phreatophyte credit of 3.4 acre-feet has been applied to this plan,
reducing the evaporative loss to 15.8 acre-feet per year,
The proposed sources of replacement for this pit are 32.5 acre-feet of historic net stream
depletions during April through October from the dry-up of 16 acres of land historically irrigated with 5.11
shares in the Larkin Ditch Company. The monthly depletions and replacement requirements are found
on attached Table 9. Note that a comprehensive stream depletion analysis considering return flow lags
may be necessary for approval of a plan for augmentation. The Larkin Ditch Company owns the Larkin
Ditch (senior right) water right, decreed in Case No. CA7927 for 25 cfs for irrigation purposes, and the
First Enlargement of the Larkin Ditch (junior right) decreed in Case No. W-176 for 12.5 cfs for irrigation
purposes. The amount dedicated to this plan equates to 1.435 cfs of the senior right and 0.7175 cfs of
the junior right.
A condition of approval in the October 20, 2003 plan approval letter required the applicant to file
an application for a plan for augmentation with the Division 5 Water Court prior to May 16, 2005 to
assure that out-of-priority depletions resulting from the ground water exposure will be replaced to the
stream system. The applicant filed Case No. 05CW76 on May 12, 2005 requesting an underground
water right, a change of water right and a plan for augmentation. An additional condition of approval in
the plan approval letter required the applicant to obtain a well permit for the gravel pit. Permit No.