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.OF .-C?LO * r87s ?` Granted The moving party is hereby ORDERED to provide a copy of this Order to any pro se parties who have entered an appearance in this action within 10 days from the date of this order. DISTRICT COURT, DIVISION 5 WATER COURT, COLORADO Garfield County Courthouse P.O. Box 192, 109 - 8th Street, Suite 104 Glenwood Springs, CO 81601 Phone Number: 970-945-5075 APPLICANT: LOCH-N-VALE LTD. LIABILITY COMPANY, a Colorado limited liability company, IN GRAND COUNTY, COLORADO James B. Boyd District Court Judge Date of Order attached A COURT USE ONLY A Case No.: 2007CW234 Division No. 5 FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, RULING, JUDGMENT AND DECREE THIS MATTER comes before the Court on an Application For Storage Water Right and for approval of a Plan for Augmentation With Appropriative Right of Exchange ("Application") filed by Loch-N-Vale Ltd. Liability Co., a Colorado limited liability company, ("Applicant"), on December 27, 2007. Prior to this decree, the Water Referee made such investigations as were necessary to determine whether or not the statements in the Application were true, and consulted with the Division Engineer, and became fully advised with respect to the subject matter of the Application in accordance with § 37-92-302(4), C.R.S.; and the Referee thereafter issued certain findings of fact, conclusions of law, and ruling ("Referee's Ruling") in this matter on August 26, 2009. Applicant filed a Pleading: In Protest To Referee's Ruling ("Protest") on September 11, 2009 asserting the need to correct certain typographical errors in Paragraph 10a of the Referee's Ruling (see Paragraph 2a of Protest), and asserting the need to add language which would expand the water storage right (see Paragraph 2b of Protest), and the need to formally add a provision ordered by the Referee (see Paragraph 2c of Protest). This decree corrects the typographical errors in Paragraph 10a of the Referee's Ruling, and incorporates the language ordered by the Referee on page 14 of the Referee's Ruling into Paragraph 35 hereof. The request to expand the water storage right sought in Paragraph 2b of the Protest is denied. 1. INTRODUCTION Applicant is the owner of land located in Grand County, Colorado, in the NE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 36, Township 1 North, Range 79 West of the 6th P.M. at a point 360 feet west of the east section line and 2,520 feet north of the south section line of said Section. A map showing the location of the Dawson Gulch Spring Pond is attached hereto as Figure No. 1. The water storage right, plan for augmentation, and appropriative right of