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• <br /> <br />WATER AGREEMENT <br />THIS WATER AGREEMENT, dated this day of Yl rya 200e, is <br />entered into by and between the City of Greeley, acting by and thxou h i ate <br />g Y 8 rand ;.. <br />Sewer Board ("City', and Lafarge West, ,Inc., a Delaware corporation {"Lafarge"). <br />RECITALS <br />A. Lafarge owns approximately 370 acres located in Sections 34 and <br />Township 6 Worth, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado, as more <br />specifically described in the attached Bxb ibit A (the "35e' Avenue Pit site. <br />B. Lafarge conducts saixd and gravel mining and related activities on the 350' <br />Avenue Pit Site and on other sites located in the South Platte River basin.: Lafarge - <br />rewires augmentation and replacement water to -replace water depletions that occur to,t ie <br />South Platte River and its tributaries as a result of such activities. <br />C. Lafarge and the City are both shareholders in the Boyd Irrigation Company, a ?41 .f <br />mutual ditch company that owns water rights decreed to divert water from the Cache.10- <br />Poudre River into the Boyd and Freeman Ditch, and both parties own land historically <br />irrigated by such water rights. _ <br />t <br />D. Lafarge's mining operations have created, and may in the future ci eate, <br />opportunities for lined gravel pit reservoirs that could be useful to the City'. <br />E. Lafarge is willing to transfer its Boyd Irrigation Company shares to the City <br /> l:r: t <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />exchange for a permanent lease of augmentation and replacement water from the City,'. <br />and the City is amenable to such an arrangement as more particularly described herein ": ! . . <br />Both parties also wish to study and discuss opportunities for construction of lined gravel*`)' <br />pit reservoirs in the vicinity of the 350i Avenue Pit Site, as more particularly described <br />herein. <br />WHEREFORE, in consideratioA of the mutual promises contained heroin,-the City and'-.-.'': <br />Lafarge hereby agree as follows: