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MAY 28 '97 13 35 FP. COOPS E H 3 S 303 277 2463 TO 919702237171 P.93i05 <br />1 <br />FINDINGS OF THE STATE ENGINEER <br />IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION FOR A PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT A WELL IN <br />' WATER DIVISION NO. 1, WELD COUNTY, COLORADO <br />APPLICANT: COORS ENERGY COMPANY <br />AQUIFER: LARAMIE-FOX HILLS <br />PERMIT NO.: +' ~ agg - F <br />In compliance with C.R.S. 37-90-137(1) and the Statewide Nontributary Ground Water <br />Rules, Coors Energy Company, P.O. Box 467, Golden, Colorado 80402, (hereinafter <br />' "applicant") submitted an application for a permit to construct a well. Based on information <br />provided by the applicant and records of the Division of Water Resources, the State Engineer <br />finds as follows: <br />' 1. The application was received complete by the State Engineer on April 25, 1997. <br /> 2. The applicant proposes to construct the well in the NE 1/4 of the SE i!4 of Section 25, <br /> Township 3 North, Range 64 West, 8th Principal Meridian- <br /> 3. The proposed well is located outside the boundaries of a designated ground water <br />' basin. <br /> 4. The applicant proposes to apply the water withdrawn from the well to the following <br /> benefidal uses: Commercial, IndusUtal, Irrigation ,Domestic and livestock Watering. <br />' 5. The proposed maximum pumping rate of the well is 120 gallons per minute, and the <br /> requested average annual amount of ground water to be withdrawn is 185 acre-feet. <br />t 6. The applicant is the owner of the land on which the well will be constructed. <br />7. The proposed well would withdraw ground water from the Laramie-Fox Hills Aquifer <br />' (hereinafter "aqulfel'), which, according to the Denver Basin Rules, is located at a <br />depth of approximately 290 feet below land surtace to a depth of approximately 810 <br />feet below land surtace at the location of the proposed well. <br />' 8. The location of the proposed well is more than 600 feet from any existing well <br />completed in the aquifer not owned by the applicant <br />' 9. According to a swum statement, the applicant owns, or has consent to withdraw ground <br />water underlying 788.54 acres of land as further described In said statement, which is <br />attached hereto as Exhibit A. <br />' 10. Withdrawal of ground water trom the aquifer underlying the land claimed by the <br />applicant will not, within one hundred years, deplete the flow of a natural stream at an <br />annual rate greater than one-tenth of one percent of the annual rate of withdrawal and <br />' therefore the ground water is nontributary ground water as defined in C.R.S. <br />37-90-103(10.5). <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />