PERMFILE63708

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 12/2/2004
• Doc Name: 2.04.7‎(2)‎ Surface Water Information
• Type & Sequence: PR10
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

through the lease azea, including South Prong, Horse Creek, and East Fork, the only tributary
watersheds of Minnesota Creek that aze partially located within the permit azea aze the Dry Fork
of Minnesota Creek (Dry Fork) and Lick Creek.
Table 8
Characteristics of lease Area Watereh
Drainage Maximum Minimum Channel Channel
Area Elevation Elevation Length Slope
Watersh d~ miZ ft mi °
D Fork lower 7.49 8 72 6 70 5.8 6.
Minn a Creek lower 41.3 12 700 6 00 11.5 6.9
Lick Creek 1.85 7 7 630 2.8 12
South Pron s .27 12 390 7 380 2.2 18
Horse Cree 2 1.75 12 390 7 830 3.5 19
Dee Cree I w r 4.68 12 180 7 200 4.4 11
Box Can o s .88 8 480 6 120 1.2 16
S Ivester Gulch middle 4.2 8 480 6 220 8.4
Gri I I h lower s 1.20 17 6 640 1.1 17
Notes:
1. Watershed names refer to gaged basins as shown on Map 34.
2. Permanent gages are no longer installed on South Prong and Horse Creek.
3. Permanent gages have not been installed on Box Canyon and Gribble Gulch.
The Dry Fork receives much of its flow from the Deep Creek Ditch, aninter-basin diversion that
• enters the eastern boundary of the Dry Fork drainage basin where the flows are measured by the
Upper Dry Fork gage. This additional flow allows the Dry Fork to flow several months after the
end of snowmelt runoff. Without these supplemental flows the Dry Fork would be strictly
ephemeral. Based on available data, the average annual diversions for Deep Creek Ditch aze
approximately 1,000 acre-feet per year. The Deep Creek Ditch diverts flow from Little Gunnison
Creek, a tributary to Coal Creek and ultimately the North Fork. As the ditch traverses across the
upper portion of the Deep Creek watershed, it collects runoff from Deep Creek tributaries then
enters at the headwaters of the Dry Fork.
Generally, there aze transit losses that will be experienced as Deep Creek Ditch transbasin diversion
flow from the upper Dry Fork watershed into the lower Dry Fork watershed. Transit losses aze
commonly experienced in imgation ditches and natural drainage channels. They aze attributable to:
bank storage, infiltration losses, channel storage, and evapotranspiration. Due to the chazacteristics
of the Dry Fork channel in the upper watershed (e.g., dry channel for much of the year, cracked
channel bottom, significant channel erosion, wide channel with steep banks, no evidence of
groundwater inflows to channel and others), transit losses will be experienced.
Lick Creek, the drainage basin south of Dry Fork, generally flows east to west across the
southern portion of the permit area. Like most of the permit area basins, Lick Creek is an
ephemeral drainage.
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2.04-77 Revised November 2004 PRlO