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- , iii iiiiuiiiiiiiiii <br />~TERLING READY-MIX CONCRETE GO. <br />STERLING. COLORADO 80751 <br />February 5, 1977 <br />Division of 'rlatcr Resource <br />1315 °herrnari St, <br />Denver, Colcrar3o <br />Re: P,ugmer.taticn Flans <br />Sterling Ready Mix Concrete: Co. <br />Riversi~}e Pit <br />Gentlemen: <br />Robert C, and h?ar~orie L. McAfee presently own 5y shares of <br />the outsi;a.ndin~ stock of the Low Line Ditr.h Co. The t,etal outstanding <br />shares of the Low Line Dit.::h is ?20 shares there"ore the percentage <br />of ownership of the T•tcAt,ees is 18.lrLtn of the total shams, <br />The average diversion of water from the South Platte Ri.vPr of <br />the Lorr Line Ditch from the years 1950 to 19'71 amounteri t.o G,0o9 acre <br />foot of water per .year. The percentage of water diverted beneficially of <br />the 59 shares hold by the Mr_P.tees would he 1119.123E acre foot average <br />during this period, The projected amount of make-up wat=r ~•Fquired b}~ <br />the riverside gravel rni.nin}; operation cormrencing in l9f?0 and on completion <br />of the projected project in the year 2005 would consume EL .95 acre feet. <br />annually of evaporative use of water, <br />However, much of this evaporative use of water would occur in the <br />r.on-irrigated season and durini; the periods when there are no calls on the <br />river for irrigation eater. <br />As shrnan a'oov~ we have water rights i,c make up any evaporative <br />use caused by the rlredring oner'atinns at, the Riverside nit. 'nfe r,ronose <br />that any make un o1• water required for evaporation bP deli.var•ed thru the <br />Low Lina system to our Carm down stream fron the Riverside dredging area. <br />Cur share of the Low Line w~trr '_= delivered to the farm and measured <br />through an existing Parshall rlume, A natural. waste a:.}- exists along <br />one edge of the farm t.ha>, will be used to carry any make un water bacF: <br />to the Platte river. The water will he measured as it leaves nn erist.ing <br />concrete ditch and enters the waste way. <br />This proposed use of Low Line water h7.11 not adversFly ai'fe<:t <br />any o±her water users s'icr, the farm land on the north silt cT the river <br />betrrcen the Riverside pits and tt:e return nnint is a7.1 irrir,ated from the <br />Low Line Hitch nor zre there ary existing diversicns from the South P:Latte <br />River betweon the head of the Loco Line Dit.rh and the poini, of return. <br />61e do own two decd};irg ponds .'n the vicinity of the proposed <br />Riverside pits, It may he feasible t.o fill these pits in an!1 develcp the <br />land that they presentl7f occupy. In all fairness ~•re fr'el. that if the:_e <br />pits are filled so that. +,hoy have no evanorat.ive losses then the net ?creeoe <br />of these two pii,s, when filled, shrnrld be deducted from the total ^creage <br />exposed by the Riversi~ic pits, <br />