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' Arkaneae River calla are not administered on Hardscrabble Creek for two <br />reasons. The senior right on Hardscrabble Creek is dated 1862. and is <br />' therefore senior to moat calls from the Arkaneae River. Also. <br />Hardscrabble Creek reportedly goes dry in several places. eo a call from <br />~ the Arkansas River on Hardscrabble Creek would not produce water. <br />PROPOHHD WAiBS PLSII <br />Dnder the State Engineers Rules and Regulations [he Corley Hine well may <br />pump 41.4 acre-feet per year for decreed usage. This should offset <br />estimated mine depletions at the existing levels of mining. Therefore. no <br />administration is eapected. <br />~ The water pumped to dewater the mine may be utilized in the mining process <br />in quantities sufficient to allow maximum projected mining levels without <br />causing injury to dovnetream water users. Onder eaieting conditions on <br />Newlin Creek. these small volumes (S.5 acre-feet per month in the summer. <br />4.6 acre-feet per month in the winter) are not available for dovnatream <br />senior water users and if not used in the mining process. would be <br />~wasted~ to the dry. losing stream. IInder such circumstances. no <br />administration is anticipated. This conclusion is supported by the <br />historic practice on Newlin Creek where an eaieting upstream junior user <br />has never been administered. <br />Standard Imposed By M.L.k. Besalation 2.04.7(3) <br />Colorado !lined Land Reclamation Board Regulation 2.04.7(3) provides as <br />follore: <br />Alternative Water Supply Information. The application shall identify <br />the extent to rhich the proposed surface coal mining operations may <br />proaimately result in contamination. diminution. or interruption of <br />an underground or surface source of water within the proposed permit <br />area and adjacent areas for domestic. agricultural. industrial. fish <br />-30- <br />