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DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES ?° e s DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES Mr. Brian Leavesley 4JR Engineering 2620 East Prospect Road, Suite 190 Fort Collins, CO 80525 Bill Ritter, Jr. • Governor Harris D. Sherman January 21, 2009 Executive Director Dick Wolfe, P,E. Director RE: Ft. Lupton Mine Sand & Gravel Operations Substitute Water Supply Plan Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety number M-99-120 r/ Section 30, T2N, R66W, 61h P.M. Water Division 1, Water District 2 Approval Period: January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2009 Contact phone number for Mr. Brian Leavesley: 970-491-9888 Dear Mr. Leavesley: We have received your letter of March 4, 2008, requesting a substitute water supply plan, to cover depletions caused by the existing Ft. Lupton Sand & Gravel mine ("Ft. Lupton Mine") (WDID 0203040 Everist Ft. Lupton Pit M-1999-120), operated by L.G. Everist ("Applicant"). The required fee of $257.00 for the renewal of this substitute supply plan has been submitted (receipt no. 3610889A). Plan Operation This plan seeks to replace depletions resulting from mining operations at the Ft. Lupton mine. The depletions that result from the mining operation are evaporation, water lost in mined product and dust suppression. The applicant has bonded through the Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety for final reclamation of the site. The proposed replacement sources are 0.52 shares of Lupton Bottom Ditch, and nontributary Laramie-Fox Hills water withdrawn from well no. 66271-F, 66273-F or 66274-F. Portions of the mining site have been lined with bentonite slurry walls. The liners were approved by the Division Engineer on October 13, 2004 and January 29, 2007. All mining activities for 2008 and 2009 will occur inside of the slurry walls, however, for this plan the depletions that result from the retention of water in mined product and all open water surfaces inside and outside of the slurry walls will be quantified and replaced under this plan. There is an existing alluvial well, permit no. 57957-F (WDID 0205018 DI TIRRO WELL 2), located outside of the approved slurry wall which is permitted to provide water for concrete batching and dust suppression. The depletions resulting from pumping the well, for those uses, will be replaced under this plan. RECENM JAN 2.3 2009 Office of the State Engineer oMsion of Red nralien. 1313 Sherman Street, Suite 818 • Denver, CO 80203 • Phone: 303866-3581 • Fax: 303-866-300ft SW SO* www.water.state.co.us