Division 5 Water Court- August 2017 Resume
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DIVISION 5 WATER COURT- AUGUST 2017 RESUME 1. PURSUANT TO C.R.S., §37-92-302, AS AMENDED, YOU ARE NOTIFIED THAT THE FOLLOWING PAGES COMPRISE A RESUME OF THE APPLICATIONS AND AMENDED APPLICATIONS FILED WITH THE WATER CLERK FOR WATER DIVISION 5 DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2017. The water right claimed by this application may affect in priority any water right claimed or heretofore adjudicated within this division and owners of affected rights must appear to object and protest within the time provided by statute, or be forever barred. 17CW3157 MESA COUNTY; Application to Make Water Rights Partially Absolute and/or ofor Findings of Reasonable Diligence. Name, address and telephone number of Applicant: Town of Palisade, please direct all correspondence to Applicant’s attorneys: Mary Elizabeth Geiger, Garfield & Hecht, P.C., 901 Grand Ave., Suite 201, Glenwood Springs, CO 81601, (970) 947-1936, [email protected]. Applicant requests that a portion of the conditional water rights decreed to the Town of Palisade Wastewater Treatment Plant Outfall be made absolute and findings of reasonable diligence as to the remaining amounts/uses: Legal description: A point of diversion located in Sec 3, T 1 S, R 2 E of the Ute Meridian, Mesa County, Colorado, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the North ¼ corner of Sec 3, whence the West 1/16 corner of the North boundary line of Section 3 bears North 90˚00’00” West; thence South 18º23’01” East 2,888.22 feet to a point located on the centerline of the outfall line of the Palisade sewer plant, also described as being 2190 feet from the west section line and 2712 feet from the north section line of Sec 3, T 1 S, R 2 E of the Ute Meridian. Source: Municipal, wastewater, and return flow collected through the Town of Palisade wastewater treatment system, tributary to the Colorado River. Appropriation date: June 14, 1988. Date applied to beneficial use: May 15, 2014. Amount: 1.9 c.f.s., conditional; 2.5 g.p.m. of which was applied to beneficial use for irrigation of the tree farm. Use: All municipal purposes, including without limitation industrial, domestic, residential, commercial, recreation, fire protection, watering of animals, and irrigation of lawns, shrubs and gardens, both by direct use and by augmentation, replacement, and exchange, and to thereby totally consume the full amount of such water for such purposes. Number of acres proposed to be irrigated: Acreage within the existing and future service area of the Town of Palisade, by direct use, augmentation, replacement and exchange. Owner of land upon which point of diversion is located: Applicant. Applicant requests that a portion of the conditional water rights decreed to the Town of Palisade Seepage Diversion be made absolute and findings of reasonable diligence as to the remaining amounts/uses: Legal Description: A point of diversion located in Sec 4, T 1 S, R 2 E of the Ute Meridian, Mesa County, Colorado, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the North ¼ corner of Sec 3, T 1 S, R 2 E of the Ute Meridian, Mesa County, Colorado, whence the West 1/16 corner of the North boundary line of Sec 3 bears North 90˚00’00” West; thence south 62˚19’53” West 4,614.17 feet to a point located on the centerline of a wastewater drainage ditch, which is the collection point, also described as being 2806 feet from the east section line and 2297 feet from the north section line of Sec 4, T 1 S, R 2 E of the Ute Meridian. Source: Collected groundwater seepage from the Grand Valley Canal, tributary to the Colorado River. Appropriation date: June 14, 1988. Date applied to beneficial use: April 2012. Amount: 1.9 c.f.s., conditional; 2.5 g.p.m. applied to irrigation within Riverbend Park. Use: All municipal purposes, including without limitation industrial, domestic, residential, commercial, recreation, fire protection, watering of animals, and irrigation of lawns, shrubs and gardens, both by direct use and by augmentation, replacement, and exchange, and to thereby totally consume the full amount of such water for such purposes. Number of acres proposed to be irrigated: Acreage within the existing and future service area of the Town of Palisade both by direct use, augmentation, and exchange. The place of use is within the present and future service area of the Town of Palisade. Owner of land upon which point of diversion is located: Applicant. The Application includes a detailed outline of the work performed during the diligence period to apply to beneficial use a portion of the subject water rights and toward the application to beneficial use of the remaining conditional amounts/uses. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT YOU HAVE until the last day of OCTOBER 2017 to file with the Water Clerk a verified Statement of Opposition setting forth facts as to why this application should not be granted or why it should be granted in part or on certain conditions. A copy of such statement of opposition must also be served upon the applicant or the applicant’s attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service shall be filed with the Water Clerk, as prescribed by Rule 5, CRCP. (Filing Fee: $158.00) KATHY POWERS, Water Clerk, Water Division 5; 109 8th Street, Suite 104 Glenwood Springs, CO 81601. 2. PURSUANT TO C.R.S., §37-92-302, AS AMENDED, YOU ARE NOTIFIED THAT THE FOLLOWING PAGES COMPRISE A RESUME OF THE APPLICATIONS AND AMENDED APPLICATIONS FILED WITH THE WATER CLERK FOR WATER DIVISION 5 DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2017. The water right claimed by this application may affect in priority any water right claimed or heretofore adjudicated within this division and owners of affected rights must appear to object and protest within the time provided by statute, or be forever barred. 17CW3158 (2009CW101), GARFIELD COUNTY, ROAN CREEK, TRIBUTARY TO THE COLORADO RIVER THE OIL SHALE CORPORATION, c/o ConocoPhillips Company, Attn.: Keri Hutchens, 3401 East 30th Street, Farmington, New Mexico 87402. APPLICATION FOR FINDING OF REASONABLE DILIGENCE. Name of Structures: Trail Gulch Reservoir and Trail Gulch Reservoir, First Enlargement. Description of Conditional Water Rights for which a Finding of Reasonable Diligence is sought: The initial point of survey of the high water line of the Trail Gulch Reservoir is located on the left abutment of the dam at a point whence the northeast corner of Section 28, T. 6 S., R. 100 W. of the 6th P.M., bears North 35° 33’ East 1,550 feet. UTM coordinates Northing 4,379,219.198, Easting 194,566.0855 (NAD 83, UTM Zone 13N) in Garfield County. Source of water - Roan Creek and its tributaries, tributary to the Colorado River, upstream from the dam forming the Reservoir. On November 16, 1970, in Civil Action No. 6404, the Garfield County District Court awarded to the Trail Gulch Reservoir, Structure No. 135, Priority No. 205, a conditional water right for 5,669.21 acre feet of water to be used for industrial, mining, domestic, municipal, recreational, irrigation and other beneficial purposes, with an appropriation date of September 23, 1967. On December 7, 1982, in Case No. 79CW353, the Court granted Applicant’s Application for an alternate point of storage for the Trail Gulch Reservoir on Carr Creek, a tributary of Roan AUGUST 2017 RESUME WATER DIVISION 5 PAGE 2 Creek and the Colorado River via the Tosco Pipeline at the following location: The point of intersection of the dam axis with the centerline of Section 24, T. 5 S., R. 100 W., 6th P.M., bears North 27° 00’ East a distance of 3,700 feet. UTM coordinates Northing 4,389,106.5187, Easting 194,268.2183 (NAD 83, UTM Zone 13N). In addition, the Court granted an additional storage capacity of the Reservoir at the alternate point of storage in the amount of 950.79 acre feet with an appropriation date of December 27, 1979. The Court previously has found the Applicant diligent in the development of the subject water right in Case Nos. 80CW138, 84CW123, 88CW127, 95CW276 and 02CW122. On August 29, 2011, in Case No. 09CW101, said water rights were continued in full force and effect. The original decreed site of the reservoir is located in property owned by the following: United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, 2300 River Frontage Road, Silt, Colorado 81652, #14 Enterprises, LLC, Post Office Box 77, DeBeque, Colorado 81630, John Lamicq III, 2214 Canyon Rim Drive, Grand Junction, Colorado 81507 and Rodd B. Brackett, Tracey K. Brackett, 19490 County Road 204, DeBeque, Colorado 81630. The alternate place of storage is located on property owned by the following: Applicant, Altenbern & Sons, 13098 County Road 204, DeBeque, Colorado 81630-9718, Nona Powell, Post Office Box 23, Rangley, Colorado 81648, United States Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, 2300 River Frontage Road, Silt, Colorado 81652. The Application contains a detailed outline of the work performed during the diligence period. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT YOU HAVE until the last day of OCTOBER 2017 to file with the Water Clerk a verified Statement of Opposition setting forth facts as to why this application should not be granted or why it should be granted in part or on certain conditions. A copy of such statement of opposition must also be served upon the applicant or the applicant’s attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service shall be filed with the Water Clerk, as prescribed by Rule 5, CRCP. (Filing Fee: $158.00) KATHY POWERS, Water Clerk, Water Division 5; 109 8th Street, Suite 104 Glenwood Springs, CO 81601.