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<br /> <br />(3) The Operator/Applicant shall provide an estimate of the project water requireme»ts <br />including flow rates and annual volumes for the development, mining and reclamation <br />phases of the project. <br />Once operational planning is complete, this section can be completed using unit <br />evaporation calculations, wash plant diversion requirements, retainage losses, etc. from <br />the Love Pit operation. <br />(4) The Operator/Applicant shall indicate the projected amount from each of the sources of <br />water to supply the project water requirements for the mining operation and reclamation. <br />Excavated mining pits will be located within the alluvium of the Blue River. As such, the <br />evaporative losses that will occur will reduce flows within the Blue River. Additional <br />operationlreclamationuses ofwater will be diverted from the exposed water surface <br />within the pits. These operation/reclamation water requirements will be supplied (or <br />replaced) by Applicant-owned water rights as outlined in the attached Table 1. These <br />rights have been historically used to irrigate more than 350 acres of pastureland on the <br />former Maryland Creek Ranch. The dry-up of these formerly irrigated acres will <br />sufficiently cover the anticipatellosses that will result from the proposed aggregate <br />mining operation for the historic irrigation season of May through September. Excess <br />consumptive use credits from this dry up may be stored in on-site augmentation ponds for <br />release during out-of-priority depletions to the Blue River. <br />The Applicant also has a 25-year contract with Green Mountain Reservoir, as well as <br />storage rights within Dillon Reservoir. These rights were obtained for augmentation <br />purposes to cover losses at the Love Pit operation across Highway 9 from the subject site. <br />Excess water from these sources is also available for replacement purposes in months <br />when historic consumptive use credits from the irrigation rights aze not available. <br />EtDIDII G r¢s pnepmrd by fYnrJll Wamrpnginrers <br />dl quesliau rr8mdmg thin union thauld be d~nerrcd <br />la Ibrm. <br />G-2 <br />