PERMFILE63014

• Permit No: M2000098
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 9/25/2001
• Doc Name: MONARCH QUARRY SUBSTITUE WATER SUPPLY PLAN SEC 33 T50N R6E NMPM WATER DIVISION 2 WATER DISTRICT 11
• From: DWR
• To: W W WHEELER AND ASSOCIATES INC
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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STATE OF COLORADO
OFFICE OF THE STATE ENGINEER
Division of Water Resources
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 81 B
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone [phone]
FAX [phone]
wM1Vw.wa terstate. co. us
Steven M. Maly
W.W. Wheeler and Associates, Inc.
3700 South Inca Street
Englewood, CO 80110
September 25, 2001
RE: Monarch Quarry Substitute Water Supply Plan
Sec. 33, TSON, R6E, N.M.P.M.
Water Division 2, Water District 11
Dear Mr. Maly:
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Bill Owens
Governor
Greg E. Walther
Executive Direttor
Hal D Simpson, P.E.
State Engineer
We have reviewed your August 3, 2001 letter on behalf of Colorado Lime Company, Inc.
(d/b/a Calco) requesting approval of a substitute water supply plan for the Monarch quarry. The
quarry site was previously owned by C.F. & I. Corporation, which mined limestone until the
1960's. While Calco has been hauling product from the site, it is now applying for a mining
permit from the Colorado Department of Minerals and Geology (DMG), and needs an approved
water source to obtain that permit. Information submitted to DMG (file no. M-2000-98) indicates
that quarrying could last for a period of 20 years.
Water needs for dust suppression and equipment washing have been and will be
supplied primarily from a surface diversion on an unnamed tributary of the South Arkansas
River. Diversions are estimated to be 1,000 gallons per day from June through September,
totaling 0.374 acre-foot annually, all of which is considered to be consumed.
Your letter references an existing well (permit no. 16342-R, case no. W-2111, Ident no.
1105392) as a possible alternate water supply. You state this well is damaged and would have
to be repaired or replaced prior to its use. The well is decreed for sanitary, domestic,
manufacturing, and power purposes, none of which are the industrial mining uses that are the
subject of this plan. Prior to obtaining a replacement permit or use of this well under this plan
Calco must document that the uses approved under this plan are included in the well's decree.
The proposed source of replacement water would be 0.5 acre-feet of Twin Lakes Water
leased from the Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District, which the District has stored in
North Fork Reservoir. While Twin Lakes water is not 100% consumptive, 0.5 acre-foot is
expected to yield 0.374 acre-feet of consumptive credits.
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