PERMFILE118281

• Permit No: C1980007A
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Doc Name: Decree
• Section_Exhibit Name: EXHIBIT 52 Water Augmentation Plan for WEM
• Media Type: D
• Archive: Yes

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~~ Decreed use: Irrigation (acreage not speci-
fied for Applicant's share)
8. Priority No. H-41 decreed to the Lane~Ditch:
Priority Number: H-41
Priority Date: May 15, 1902
l Decree: May 28, 1937, Delta County District
J Court
Type: Surface
Source: Minnesota Creek
Decreed point of diversion: Lane Ditch, as
described above
Decreed amount: 0.625 c.f.s
Amount to be used in Plan: 0.625 c.f.s.
Decreed use: Irrigation (acreage not speci-
fied for Applicant's share)
~• 23. The lands upon which the subject water rights
have historically been utilized are identified on the map
attached as Exhibit A. Those lands are found in three
l primary properties, which are identified as follows:
1 Whistling Acres, Elk Meadows, and Delta Housing. The water
rights have historically been used for irrigation of hay
meadows and pasture grass.
26. The amount of irrigated acres served by the various
ditches carrying the subject water rights was determined from
aerial photographs, field inspection, and interviews with
area ranchers. The Blaney-Griddle method was used to
determine the consumptive use of hay and pasture grass in the
Minnesota Creek Basin.
25. When augmentation is required under the methodology
of the plan, Applicant shall forego diversion of one or more
of its augmentation water rights. By so doing, it shall be
entitled to augmentation credit for that quantity of water by
which the historical use of its rights reduced the amount of
j water available to other users. Depending on both the
J augmentation right involved and the calling right involved,
that credit may be for either the amount historically
diverted under the augmentation right, or an amount
equivalent to the historical consumptive use of the right.
• If the calling right historically received return flows from
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