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' ~. <br />Robert Carlson Page 2 <br />October 28, 1986 <br />year. Since the South Platte River is already over-appropriated, this will <br />result in a loss of water to downstream irrigators. <br />The app]icant states that this evaporation will be replaced by augmenting with <br />water provided from 125 inches of water of appropriation no. 25 running in the <br />canal of the Consolidated Hillsboro Ditch Company. No information was pro- <br />vided concerning the effective yield and historic use of this water. The <br />applicant also did not discuss the dry-up of any irrigated lands. An augmen- <br />tation plan must be developed, submitted to, and approved by the Water Court. <br />We have no record of this being done. <br />Unless a plan for augmentation is developed to replace the water loss to the <br />system due to evaporation, the operation will injure existing water rights. <br />Therefore, we cannot recommend approval of the permit until the applicant is <br />capable of mitigating the injury that will be caused by the project. Further, <br />we will order Coulson Excavating Co. to cease operations if our Water Commis- <br />sioner determines ground water is being exposed without a well permit or there <br />is determined to be a wasteful use of ground water occurring. <br />HDS/JCM:ma/8726H <br />cc: Alan Berryman, Div. Eng. <br />