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.. .. , . crops, stock watering for beef and dairy cattle and the watering of home gardens. The rights associated with the Standley Lake Division include: 1. Croke Canal Priority date March 4, ]902, decreed March 14, 1936, for 944 C.F.S. 2. Standley Reservoir. Priority date March 45, 1902, decreed March 14, 1936, for 32,361 acre-feet, absolute and 16,699 acre-feet, conditional. Both the Croke Canal and Standley Reservoir are decreed for irrigation and domestic uses; however, there has been no substantial historic in- house domestic use prior to acquisition of shares by Westminster and Thornton. 3. Church Ditch. FRICO is also an owner of rights to purchase water from the Church Ditch. 9. Thornton-and Westminster are shareholders of FRICO and also separately own independent rights to store water in Standley Reservoir. Thornton and Westminster presently provide water service to about 135,000 people. About 95 percert of Westminster's water supply and about 75 percent of Thornton's are scored in Standley Reservoir. Hoth cities store water diverted under FRICO's decrees and the other rights identified above. Both cities have used water from . these sources since the early 1950's. Thornton's rights have not been the subject of any application to change their use to municipal use. Westminster obtained judicial confirmation of its right to store in Standley Reservoir and use for municipal purposes certain rights, including that part of its Farmers High Line and Church Ditch rights which it owned in 1977, in Case No. W-8743 and its Coel Creek rights. No objector has filed for or obtained a decree changing any part of the Croke Canal or Standley Reservoir rights (referred to in paragraph 8(c)(1)dc(2) above) to municipal use. 10. The Croke Canal diverts primarily, but not exclusively, during the winter. At that time it generally diverts all the water available in Clear Creek at its headgate. 11. Prior to 1952, Golden had no central sewage treatment. From 1952- 1972, Golden's sewage was treated and discharged at the GWTP above the Croke Canal, along with ell of Coors' wastewater. From 1972-1982 Golden's sewage and Coors' industrial sewage were treated at the Denver Metro sewage treatment plant and discharged to the South Platte River. Since August, 1982, the GWTP has again been used to treat Golden's sewage and Coors' industrial sewage. 12. ~O~dlvert 20 c.fs. out-of-priority, as proposed, Golden must replace chat.. 20 c.f.s.._ to the stream above the point of diversion of the water right that would:otherwiae have received that water. Throughout the winter and also at other times, the affected water rights are those of the Croke Canal and Standley Reservofr. • 13. Golden's plan would increase the amount of Golden's sewage diverted -3-