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Case No. 93C WO55, Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Decree of the Water Court Approving Conditional Direct Flow Water Right Application of The CiTy of Back Hawk Page 3 8.e. Uses of Water: The water will be used for all municipal purposes, including domestic, irrigation, industrial, commercial, fire protection, stockwatering, recreation, piscatorial, storage and all other municipal purposes. The water will also be used by exchange for the foregoing purposes, for replacement, and for augmentation purposes. Additionally, the Applicant has requested a decree for the right to use, reuse, successively use and dispose of, by sale, exchange or otherwise to extinction all water lawfully diverted and/or stored in this case. 8.f. Date of Appropriation: March 16, 1993. CONCLUSIONS OF LAW 9. The Court incorporates the foregoing Findings of Fact to the extent that these may constitute conclusions of law. 10. This Court has jurisdiction over all persons who could have appeared but did not and over all parties who did appear. 11. The Court determines, as a matter of law, that the application for the conditional direct flow water right proposed by the Applicant meets the standards described in C.R.S. § 37-92-305, and other applicable provisions ofColorado law, and will not result in any injury to any owner of or person entitled to use water under a vested water right or a decreed conditional right, if operated in accordance with this decree. 12. This decree is authorized by law and is within the jurisdiction of this Court. C.R.S. 37-92-101 et seg., as amended. 13. Applicant has complied with all requirements and met all standards and burdens of proof, including but not limited to C.R.S. §§ 37-92-302, 37-92-304, and 37-92-305 as amended, to adjudicate its conditional direct flow water right decreed herein. 14. Review of determinations made by the Division Engineer in the administration of the accounting procedure and forms associated with this decree is a "water matter" over which this Court has exclusive jurisdiction under C.R.S. § 37-92-101 et seq.