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'w Ms. Sara Foster April 8, 2008 Firestien/Tigges/Roberts properties. Firestien farmed 134 acres, which Whitney Ditch. Seven of the ten shares are dedicated to this plan incluc The Tigges farm included ten shares of Whitney Ditch, which histoi applicant has dedicated 4 shares to this plan and will reserve 6 shares requirements. The total consumptive use available for the 11 shares of acre-feet. In addition to the eleven shares of Whitney Ditch water, 9.I dedicated as replacement water to this plan. Lot Holding Investments, Hall-Irwin, owns Kem Reservoir shares. During the months when thei 151.80 acre-feet associated with the 9.6 shares will be made from the Ke attached Table 1). The 151.80 acre-feet also include 60.68 acre-feet v from the 9.6 shares. A copy of the lease agreement with Kern Reservo January 14, 2008. After including the replacement water from Kern Reservoir, the feet, which will be replaced through a water lease agreement avail ("Milliken°) substitute water supply plan ("SWSP") approved pursuan consolidated Division 1 Water Court cases associated with the Millik 2005CW59. Of the 2.58 acre-feet of leased water from Milliken, appro; transit losses (0.5 percent per mile for 15.9 miles). The existing lease is acre-feet, 58.67 acre-feet are dedicated for replacement of depletioi M2002-120). The remaining 4.39 acre-feet (63.06 - 58.67) will be use acre-feet of depletions referenced above. A copy of the Milliken lean March 18, 2008 and is attached to this letter. The monthly depletions and replacement requirements are found I hereby approve the proposed substitute water supply plan in C.R.S., subject to the following conditions: Page 6 vas irrigated with ten shares of ing the walk-away requirement. cally irrigated 120 acres. The to be used to cover walk-away Nhitney Ditch averaged 198.68 shares of Kem Reservoir are LLC, a subsidiary company of e is a deficit, releases totaling rn Reservoir (as reflected in the hich represents the return flow r was provided to this office on will be a deficit of 2.58 acre- le under the Town of Milliken to C.R.S. 37-92-308(4). The ~ SWSP are 2002CW339 and nately 0.22 acre-feet will cover ~r 63.06 acre-feet. Of the 63.06 at the Bernhardt Pit (DRMS to replace the remaining 2.58 was provided to this office on the attached Table 1. with §37-90-137(11), 1. This plan shall be valid for the period of January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008 unless otherwise revoked or modified. If this plan will not be made absolute by a water court action by the plan's expiration date, a renewal request must be submitted to this office with the statutory fee of $257 for each DRMS site no later than November 15, 20D8. 2. The total area of pond surface exposed after December 31, 1980 for each of the pits shall not exceed those values listed in Table A of this approval. Shouldi the total surface area exposed exceed those amounts, the Applicant is required to immediat i ly file an amendment with this office. 3. The total amount of ground water to be appropriated from each) of the pits shall not exceed the values listed in Table B of this approval. 4. Approval of this plan is for the purposes stated herein. Any additional uses of this water must first be approved by this office. Any future additional historical consumptive use credit given (e.g., agricultural water transfer) for this site must consider all previous credits given. 5. All pumping for dust control shall be measured in a man i er acceptable to the division engineer. 6. All releases of replacement water must be sufficient to cover) all out-of-priority depletions in time, place, and amount and must be made under the direction and/or the approval of the i