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i• Application of Bowie Resources, LLC Case No. 02CW77 Ruling of Referee and Decree Page 8 14. Statement of Plan for Augmentation: A licant's Water Re uirements and De letions A. Applicant owns the Bowie No. 1 Mine, located in Sections 23 and 24, T. 13 S., R. 92 W., 6th P.M., which is no longer operational. Applicant also owns and operates the Bowie No. 2 Mine, the portal of which is located in Section 10, T. 13 S., R. 91 W., 6th P.M., Delta County, Colorado. The mines are located in the North Fork of the Gunnison River Basin. The location of the mines are shown on Figure 1, attached hereto. The mines are underground coal mines. The Bowie No. 2 Mine includes processing and shipping facilities related to its coal mining operations. The water rights and augmentation plan described in this Application will be used in connection with the operation of the Bowie No. 2 Mine, as well as to augment evaporative depletions from the Bowie Sedimentation Ponds, described in the Findings Re: First Claim for Relief, above. B. In connection with its operations of the Bowie No. 2 Mine, Applicant uses water both for industrial and domestic purposes. Water for these purposes is pumped from the Deer Trail Ditch under Applicant's Deer Trail Industrial Right and placed in a 500,000 gallon storage tank, from which point it is distributed to its place of use. A flow meter on the delivery pipeline is used to measure total diversions. Applicant's industrial and domestic uses are summarized as follows: i. The majority of Applicant's water needs in connection with its operations of the Bowie No. 2 mine are for industrial purposes directly associated with the mining of coal. Diversion records show that Applicant's industrial water use averages about 10 gallons per ton of product. At the production rate of 6 million tons per year, Applicant annually diverts approximately 184.11 acre feet in connection with its mining operations. Applicant consumes an estimated 90% of the water diverted, either by evaporation or as retained moisture in the coal. The other 10% either returns to the system by infiltration or is collected in the ponds [hat are the subject of the augmentation plan decreed in Case No. 99 CW 263. Because Applicant's depletions aze generally the same each month of the yeaz, the portion of this 10% that returns to the system by infiltration is generally the same each month of the year and delayed depletions do not need to be addressed. Total annual mining depletions are approximately 165.70 acre feet. ii. Applicant's domestic water use in connection with the operation of the Bowie No. 2 Mine varies between 4,000 and 5,000 gallons per day (gpd). This amount of water use is equivalent to approximately 18 to 23 gpd per employee, which amount is consistent with other similar operations in which shower facilities are provided. For purposes of this