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Ms.Megan Gutwein <br /> August 16,2019 <br /> Page 3 of 25 <br /> does it involve the transfer or facilitation of transfer of water out of the Rio Grande Basin by direct <br /> diversion, exchange or otherwise. <br /> I. Historical Use Analysis <br /> The Catlin Canal Company has a total of 18,660 outstanding shares. The decree in Case No. <br /> 06CW049 states that the Catlin Canal priorities have been used to irrigate between 17,000 and <br /> 18,660 acres of land. Per the results of GIS data and as reported in HydroBase, 15,877 acres were <br /> irrigated by surface water via the Catlin Canal in 2003. As such, based on the 2003 GIS data and <br /> the decree, respectively, one Catlin share has historically served an average between 0.85 acre to <br /> 1.0 acre. <br /> A. Participating Farms <br /> The Colorado Springs/Super Ditch Pilot Project will use shares that historically irrigated lands <br /> located on the Diamond A, Schweizer, Mameda, Groves and Mayhoffer Farms (see Figure 1, <br /> Colorado Springs/Super Ditch Pilot Project Area Map, Appendix A) (Participating Farms)3. As <br /> described below, in 2015 the Participating Farms used a total of 1,857.726 shares to irrigate <br /> 1,791.1 acres, which equates to an average of approximately 1.085 acres per share. Average <br /> irrigation for the thirty-year study period from 1988 through 2017 was 1,701.65 acres for the <br /> Participating Farms.Table 2 below provides a legal description of the historically irrigated acres,the <br /> irrigated acreage in 2015, the historical irrigated acreage, the Pilot Project historical irrigated <br /> acreage4,the number of shares for the above participating farmers,the number of leased Colorado <br /> Division of Parks and Wildlife (CPW) shares used on the historically irrigated acreage,the acres per <br /> share, and associated share certificate numbers. <br /> As shown in Figure 1, the Schweizer and Diamond A Farms are located about 3.3 miles east- <br /> southeast of the Town of Manzanola along State Highway 50;the Mameda Farm is about 6.7 miles <br /> southeast of the Town of Rocky Ford; the Groves Farm is located about 4.8 miles south-southeast <br /> of the Town of Rocky Ford; and the Mayhoffer Farm is located 3.4 miles south of Swink. <br /> 3 Two minor discrepancies between the original proposal description of land are corrected in this application. 1)Some <br /> of the maps for the Diamond Afarm were omitted; and 2)Mameda Farms and share information was omitted while <br /> the maps were included. <br /> 4 This Pilot Project historical irrigated acreage is the historical irrigated acreage proportionally reduced to factor out the <br /> historical use of leased CPW shares since the CPW shares are/were leased, rather than owned, by the participating <br /> farmers. <br /> Martin and Wood Water Consultants,Inc. <br />