2013-03-28_HYDROLOGY - M1977151

• Permit No: M1977151
• IBM Index Class Name: HYDROLOGY
• Doc Date: 3/28/2013
• Doc Name: SWSP
• From: OSE
• To: Applegate Group, Inc.
• Permit Index Doc Type: Hydrology Report
• Email Name: PSH
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Mr. Jared Dains, E.I. Page 3 of 8
March 27, 2013
Replacements
The sources of replacement water to be used for this SWSP are: 1) consumptive use
credits associated with the historical irrigation use of 3.0 shares of the Greeley Irrigation Company
( "GIC "), 2) leased augmentation water provided by the Graham Drainage Ditch Company, and 3) a
non - irrigation season lease that has yet to be finalized. In order to add the non - irrigation season
leased water to this SWSP, without amendment to the SWSP, such water must be fully
consumable or otherwise permitted or decreed for augmentation use, so that no change of water
right is required to use the water. In addition, such water must be available in time, location and
amount to replace the depletions under this SWSP. The Graham Drainage Ditch Company lease
will deliver replacements above the Ogilvy Ditch, which is the first calling water right below the
Greeley Pit point of depletion.
The applicant's GIC shares will be delivered to the Cache La Poudre River at the 23
Avenue /4 Street return structure. Those replacements will be made directly adjacent to the
Greeley Pit. Due to close proximity of the return station to the Greeley Pit, no transit losses will
be assessed to the delivery of the GIC shares.
A portion of the Greeley Canal No. 3 was changed in Division 1 Water Court in case no.
96CW658 based on a ditch -wide analysis by the Poudre Prairie Mutual Reservoir and Irrigation
Company. The use of the subject ditch shares in this plan shall be in accordance with the terms
and conditions decreed in case no. 1996CW658, including monthly and annual volumetric limits on
water deliveries and monthly return flow requirements. The decree in case no. 1996CW658 found
that 519.7 shares were used to irrigate 3,501 acres with an average historical consumptive use of
5,358 acre -feet per year, which yields an average consumptive use credit of 10.31 acre -feet per
share (5,358 acre- feet/519.7 shares).
Hiner owns three shares of GIC under the following certificates:
Certificate No. No. of Shares Original Property
2835 0.5 John & Barbara Barrett
3044 0.5 David Beckers
3352 0.5 Carmen Duran
3343 0.5 Darrin Morse
3364 0.2 Ray Smith
3365 0.8 Steve & Linda Story
The previous utilized 2.0 shares (certificate nos. 2835, 3044, 3352, & 3343). A new water right
dedication affidavit for all three shares was provided by the applicant and is attached to this letter.
For this plan period , the 3.0 shares to be used in this plan results in a consumptive use credit of
approximately 30.93 acre -feet per year (10.31 acre -feet per share x 3.0 shares). Dry up covenants
have been obtained for the shares used for irrigation on the Barrett, Duran, Farm W -38 (Morse),
Smith and Story properties. The Becker's one -half (0.5) share will be used as a "floating share"
as described in case no. 1996CW658. In accordance with paragraph 19 of case no.
1996CW658, the lands historically irrigated by the "floating shares" are reported to have already
been dried up and are no longer irrigated.
In paragraph 6.7.4 of the decree in case no. 1996CW658, future farm headgate deliveries
of the 67.75 shares were limited to 1,712 acre -feet per year (25.26 acre -feet per share) and 12,631
acre -feet (186.43 acre -feet per share) in any consecutive 10 year period. Deliveries of the 3.0
shares of GIC water under this plan must comply with these limits. The historical return flows shall
be maintained in accordance with the return flow factors identified in case no. 1996CW658. The
return flows associated with the delivery of Fossil Creek Reservoir water that is attributable to the
3.0 GIC shares shall also be maintained in accordance with the surface and subsurface factors