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<br />1 <br /> <br />1 <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />1 <br />t <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />223 <br />1 return flows from the process. If Battle Mountain <br />2 were a client to whom the value of every acre-foot <br />3 of water were of overriding importance, I might have <br />4 advised them that the wells on the Trinchera -- in <br />5 the Trinchera drainage area on the Columbian are, in <br />6 fact, not tributary to Trinchera Creek. I might <br />7 have advised -- take a little bit longer with the <br />8 case and assert they can take the entire divex•sion <br />9 from those wells rather than just the historic <br />10 consumptive use. <br />11 I think there would be engineering to <br />12 support that. And it was their decision not to <br />13 attempt to do that, not to bring any issue of that <br />14 kind into this case. <br />15 And another reason that I think this is <br />16 a conservative augmentation plan is the fact that <br />17 two of the major objectors, the Rio Grande District <br />18 and the Conejos District, are represented by people <br />14 whom I have known for many years to be experienced <br />20 water attorneys, Dave Robbins and Dave Harrison. <br />21 This case has been pending a long time, I see these <br />22 people all the time, and they have not tendered any <br />23 discovery to us and they haven't razzed me about <br />24 pushing the edges of water law in this case, as I <br />25 know they would if this were a case that was on the <br />AGREN, BLANDO 6 BILLINGS <br />