2002-03-13_REVISION - M1986015

• Permit No: M1986015
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 3/13/2002
• Doc Name: Response to Permit Application Consideration
• From: SEO
• To: DMG
• Type & Sequence: AM1
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Ray Dunn Page ,
February 25, 2002
Net Batch Plant Material Truck Total
Evaporation Operations Washing Clean-out Consumption
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Pueblo West 125.7 7.4 3.9 3.2 140.3
Pueblo East 35.07 -0- 19.60 -0- 54.67
The replacement water will be from 2 sources. The first is Transit Mix's ownership of
2.92 cfs of the Hamp-Bell Ditch that historically irrigated 67 acres and is estimated to yield an
average of 170.3 acre-feet annually. The second is consumable water leased from the Pueblo
Board of Water Works. Transit Mix currently has 2 leases with Pueblo that will provide 106
acre-feet of water annually (a 10 year lease for 50 of/yr dated May 10, 1993, and a 8 year lease
for 56 of/yr dated September 2, 1997).
Hamp-Bell Ditch credits will first be applied to depletions at the Pueblo West Pit, with
excess credits carried down stream and applied to depletions at the Pueblo East Pit site..
Depletions at each site that cannot be covered by ditch credits, and depletions caused by
elimination of return flows due to dry-up under the ditch, will be replaced using releases of the
Pueblo water (from Pueblo Reservoir or other equivalent source such as Clear Creek
Reservoir). The operational scenario giving monthly depletions and replacements is detailed on
your Table 5, which is attached.
Transit Mix commits 2 sources of long-term renewable water for aback-up supply to
cover the 92.0 acre-feet of depletions covered by the Pueblo water, should the Pueblo water
become unavailable in the future. The first is the 66.7 acre-feet of excess Hamp-Bell Ditch
credits (identified on Table 5). The second is the required amount out of the 46.8 acre-feet per
year firm yield of the 60 shares of Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Company stock it owns.
Areas within the Pueblo West Pit, in excess of the 102.8 acres of exposed ground water
indicated above, are being dewatered. Transit Mix has a bond deposited with the Division of
Minerals and Geology (DMG) to provide for a lined berm around the dewatered area so a_
source of iohg-term renewable replacement water is not needed for that area.
You indicate that Transit Mix desires to excavate and dewater area at the Pueblo East
Pit greater than the 12 acres of exposed ground water indicated shave, and that a bond with
DMG to provide for an enclosing slurry wall is planned. Until such a bond has been accepted by
DMG the total combined area of actual ground water exposure plus excavated and dewatered
area that would expose ground water if dewatering stops is limited to 12 acres. dnce such a
bond has been accepted a request to amend this plan may be submitted.
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.
This substitute water supply plan is hereby approved pursuant to Section 37-80-120,
C.R.S., subject to the following conditions: