2005-12-28_REVISION - M1992045

• Permit No: M1992045
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 12/28/2005
• Doc Name: Reply by OSE to email from Van Ellas ‎(Attached)‎
• From: Don West OSE
• To: Jim VanElla
• Type & Sequence: AM1
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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From: West, Don [[e-mail]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 3:06 PM
To: Jim VanElla; [e-mail]
Cc: Smith, Bruce(DWR); Mount, Carl
Subject: RE: Gotd Basin Mine
Mr. Van Ella,
For good communication and hopefully a quicker evaluation of your DMG request,
I have included both your DMG contact, Carl Mount, and your area Water
Commissioner, Bruce Smith, on this response a-mail. [Note: you may write
directly to Bruce Smith at his a-mail address above to coordinate a meeting with
him.] The Division of Water Resources comments to the DMG for your
amendment request was that we need more information in a water supply report
before we can assess your water usage to determine if your operation causes
injury to any higher priority water rights.
Typically, a water rights engineer writes up the report based upon our
requirements in Policy 2003-2 (link attached below). However, your project may
be simple enough that you will be able to do the work yourself. You will need to
provide us with a description of all activities that use water. From your file, I
would assume that at the least, you have evaporation losses caused by the surface
area of exposed water and from washing of the gravel you extract. Our office
would accept 38"/year surface water evaporation for your location. The policy
states we will accept 16% of that in July, 13% in August and it°lo in September
for your elevation. We would also accept that 4%, by weight, of the gravel that is
washed is retained water. If those are your only water uses and you are able to
make those calculations, then we could likely accept your engineering work for the
water supply report.
Although this should be verified with your water commissioner, I suspect that a
1986 water right is too junior to be in priority when you are using water.
Therefore, you will be required to operate under a court decreed plan for
augmentation or a substitute water supply plan and you would have to purchase
replacement water for the operation.
http: //www.water. state. co. us/pubs/DOlicies/pol icy2003-2. pdf
The type of substitute water supply plan you could use is identified in the link
below. You should be eligible for a CRS 37-92-308(5) plan, but you must provide
notice to all people on the SWSP notification list and pay the annual fee of $300.
Afso, you can only operate that plan for 5 years.
12/30/2005