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Application of Bowie Resources, LLC Case No. 02CW77 Ruling of Referee and Decree Pagel l results in a credit of 0.41 AF for every 1.0 AF of water released from the Reservoir. Alternatively stated, 2.44 AF of water must be released from the Reservoir to replace 1.0 AF of depletions. v. Pursuant to Sections 37-83-101, 37-83-104, and 37-87-102(4), C.R.S., the Division Engineer may adjust the transit losses for water released from East Beckwith Reservoir if necessary to prevent injury to vested senior water rights. However, because the recent Wright Water Engineers, Inc., transit loss study determined the appropriate loss from the Reservoir to Somerset under present conditions, an adjustment to the transit loss shall not be made unless there is a substantial change in stream conditions, or unless a subsequent transit loss study conclusively determines that a different transit loss factor should be used. Prior to adjusting the transit losses, the Division Engineer shall notify the Applicant and provide the Applicant the opportunity to offer data and other input regazding whether the transit loss factor should be adjusted. H. Applicant has applied for a contract for water from Blue Mesa Reservoir, to provide additional augmentation water for use in this plan. A 5% transit loss wilt be applied from Blue Mesa Reservoir to the confluence of the Gunnison River with the North Fork of the Gunnison River. Augmentation Plan I. The Deer Trail Industrial Right and the Bowie Sedimentation Ponds are potentially subject to calls from downstream senior water rights, as follows: i. The Deer Trail Industrial Right maybe subject to call from senior irrigation water rights located downstream of Applicant's operations on [he North Fork of the Gunnison River from July 1 through October 31 of each year (herein Che "Imgation Season Call Period"). In addition, Applicant may be required to augment or replace its evaporative depletions from the Bowie Sedimentation Ponds during the Irrigation Season Call Period to satisfy the call of the downstream senior imgation water rights. Although the ponds are primarily sedimentation structures that mayor may not contain any quantities of water at any given time, Applicant has assumed that augmentation or replacement for the ponds will be required during the entire Irrigation Season Call Period. ' ii. The Deer Trail Industrial Right and the Bowie Sedimentation • Ponds may also be subject to call by senior water rights on the Gunnison River neaz Grand Junction during any time of the year. This call shall be referred to herein as the "Redlands Call."