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Case No. 94CW036, Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Decree of the Court Approving Absolute and Conditional Ground Water Rights, Plan of Augmentation and for Change of Water Rights, Application of the City of Black Hawk, Page I2 use under this plan will be measured and will be reported on the accounting reports provided to the Division Engineer. This plan for augmentation assumes 2 feet of water will be applied to irrigated lands, with a limit of 10 acre-feet. Irrigation returns are assumed to be 10% of the water applied to irrigation. These values will be reflected in the accounting reports. A total of 9 acre-feet of annual consumptive use is estimated for ] 0 acre-feet of water applied [o irrigation use for a maximum of 5 acres of lands under irrigation, under this plan of augmentation. 16.c. Depletions for the Black Hawk-Central City Sanitation District's proposed well described in paragraph 15, above, are estimated to be 2 percent of water pumped. Annual pumping is estimated to be 1400 g.p.d., or 1.57 acre-feet per year. Depletions at 2 percent are estimated to be 0.0314 acre feet per year. 17. Augmentation Sources: The following sources will be used for augmentation for the water rights listed in paragraph 15, above, when those rights are diverting under this plan of augmentation and causing net out-of-priority depletions after credits for return flows from treated wastewater effluent for in-house use and from irrigation return flows: 17.a. By the Fourth Amendment to Application in this matter, Applicant has withdrawn with prejudice its claim in this Application to use any water derived from interests in the Farmers' High Line Canal and Reservoir Company as a source of augmentation in this case. 17.6. The Golden City and Ralston Creek Ditch, a/k/a Church Ditch, water rights: There are a total of 5,710.64 inches in the Church Ditch, a carrier ditch. As set forth in paragraph 18, below, Applicant seeks to change 52.1 Church Ditch inches to allow the use of said inches in this plan for augmentation as well as for other purposes. The Church Ditch decrees, Applicant's pro rata ownership thereofattributed to the 52.1 inches, and the decreed diversion points therefor are more specifically described in paragraph 18, below. 17.c. Water leased from Coors Brewing Company: The City currently leases 24 acre-feet of consumptive use water annually from the Coors Brewing Company. The sources of water leased include what are commonly known as Vidler Tunnel water, Berthoud Pass water, Henderson Mine water, and Eisenhower Tunnel water. 17.d. Pickle Gulch Reservoir (Case No. 92CW058): 17.d.(]) Name: Pickle Gulch