DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 6, COLORADO
TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS
IN WATER DIVISION 6
Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are hereby notified that the following pages comprise a
resume of Applications and Amended Applications filed in the office of Water Division 6,
during the month of AUGUST, 2014.
2014CW11 MOFFAT COUNTY, Application for Absolute Water Storage Right; Frederick L.
and Deborah J. Myers, PO Box 471, Baggs, WY 82321, (970) 583-7466; Structure: Myers Stack
Reservoir; UTM Coordinates: Northing, 4542388, Easting 268699, Zone 12; Legal Description:
NW4, SW4 S17, T12, R92, PM6; Distance from section lines 775 ft from N, 1184 ft from W;
Source of PLSS: Division of Water Resources; Source: Natural rain and snow runoff; Date of
Appropriation: 1999; Initiated by: Building dam; Date Water Applied to Beneficial Use: April,
2000; Amount Claimed: Absolute 1.0 acre ft; Uses or Proposed Uses: Water for livestock,
riparian and wildlife; Non-irrigation Purpose: Water source for livestock, riparian, and wildlife;
Surface Area of High Water Line: 1.0369 acres; Vertical Height of Dam: 8 ft; Length of Dam
394 ft; Total Capacity: 1.0 acre ft; Dead Storage: 1.0; Reservoir: Myers Spring Reservoir; UTM
Coordinates: Northing: 4527913; Easting: 262194, Zone 12; UTM Source: handheld Garmin
GPS device; Legal Description: NE4, SW4, S34, T11, R93, PM6; Distance from Section Lines:
1879 ft from S; 2336 ft from W; Source of PLSS: Division of Water Resources; Source: Springunnamed tributary of Little Snake River; Date of Appropriation: 1973; Appropriation Initiated:
By building dam; Date Water Applied to Beneficial Use: 1973; Amount Claimed: Absolute: 1.5
acre ft; Uses or Proposed Uses: water for livestock, riparian and wildlife; Non-irrigation Purpose:
Water source for livestock, riparian and wildlife animals; Surface are of High Water Line: .52
acres; Vertical Height of Dam: 20 ft; Length of Dam: 183 ft; Total Capacity: 1.5 acre ft; Dead
Storage: 1.5; Landowner: Applicants. Map available at Court.
14CW12 ROUTT COUNTY Application for Conditional Water Rights (Surface). Applicants:
D Neil McCandless and Jill McCandless, 707 Green St, Craig, CO 80425, 970-824-3093.
Structure: McCandless Ditch. Legal Description: UTM Coordinates – Northing 4499212, Easting
325636, Zone 13; Source of UTMS – GPS; Routt County, SE4, NW4, S29, T8N, R86W, 6th
PM, distance from section lines 1745 from N and 1955 from W, source of PLSS info-Brian
Romig. Source: Miller Crk to Deep Cris to Elk River. Date of appropriation Aug 1968; How
appropriation was intiated-open flow into old channel; Date water applied to beneficial use-Aug
1968. Amount Claimed: .5 CFS conditional. Uses: Domestic, stock ponds, wildlife ponds,
irrigate trees. Irrigation: number acres historically irrigated-25 +/-; acres proposed to be
irrigated-20 +/- . Applicant does not intend to use this water right to supplement land under
another water right. Legal Description of irrigated acreage: Central site: 13T, 0325924 E,
449925N. See Court file for map. Applicants are landowners.
14CW3019 ROUTT COUNTY Application For Finding of Reasonable Diligence. Hidden
Springs Ranch Owners’ Association, Inc., P.O. Box 361, Hayden, CO 81639 c/o Paul Sachs,
Esq., Paul Sachs, P.C., P.O. Box 773554, Steamboat Springs, CO 80477. Telephone: (970) 8798600 Fax: (970) 879-8601. Email: psachs@paulsachspc.com. Description of Conditional
Water Rights: On November 29, 2006 in Case No. 05CW35, Routt County Combined Courts,
Water Division No. 6, the Water Court awarded conditional and absolute water rights to 4S
Development, Ltd., LLLP, which water rights have subsequently been conveyed to Hidden
Springs Ranch Owners’ Association, Inc. Names of Structures: Middle HSR Pond, Upper HSR
Pond and Brock Reservoir. Legal Description of Each Point of Diversion: As described in the
05CW35 Decree of the Water Court: Middle HSR Pond: Located in the SW1/4NE1/4 of
Section 17, T6N, R88W, 6th P.M. in Routt County, Colorado. The dam is located 3370 feet
from the south section line and 1480 feet from the east section line of said section line of said
Section 17. Upper HSR Pond: Located in the NW1/4SE1/4 of Section 17, T6N, R88W, of the
6th P.M. in Routt County, Colorado. The dam is located 2240 feet from the south section line
and 2390 from the east section line of said Section 17. Brock Reservoir: Located in the
SW1/4SE1/4 of Section 8, T6N, R88W, of the 6th P.M. in Routt County, Colorado. The dam is
located 300 feet north of the south section line and 1590 feet west of the east section line of said
Section 8. Source of Water: As stated in the 05CW35 Decree of the Water Court: Middle HSR
Pond: Brock Gulch, a tributary of the Yampa River and ground water produced by Well No.
HS-JR#1 as described in Case No. 03CW54, District Court, Water Division No. 6. Upper HSR
Pond: Brock Gulch, a tributary of the Yampa River and ground water produced by Well No.
HS-JR#1 as described in Case No. 03CW54, District Court, Water Division No. 6. Brock
Reservoir: Brock Gulch, a tributary of the Yampa River and ground water produced by Well No.
HS-JR#1 as described in Case No. 03CW54, District Court, Water Division No. 6.
Appropriation Date and Amount of Water: As stated in the 05CW35 Decree of the Water Court:
Middle HSR Pond: July 12, 2005 Amount: 1.2 acre feet was decreed absolute (stock water,
piscatorial, aesthetic, and recreational purposes) and conditional (domestic, irrigation, fire
protection, augmentation, and replacement purposes). Upper HSR Pond: July 12, 2005
Amount: 3.0 acre feet was decreed absolute (stock water, piscatorial, aesthetic, and recreational
purposes) and conditional (domestic, irrigation, fire protection, augmentation, and replacement
purposes). Brock Reservoir: July 12, 2005 Amount: 10.0 acre feet conditional (augmentation
and replacement purposes). Uses: As stated in the 05CW35 Decree of the Water Court: Middle
HSR Pond: Stock Water, piscatorial, aesthetic, recreational, domestic, irrigation, fire protection,
augmentation and replacement purposes. Up to 2 acres to be irrigated within the Hidden Springs
Ranch development. Upper HSR Pond: Stock Water, piscatorial, aesthetic, recreational,
domestic, irrigation, fire protection, augmentation and replacement purposes. Up to 5 acres to be
irrigated within the Hidden Springs Ranch development. Brock Reservoir: Augmentation and
replacement purposes. Detailed Outline of what has been done toward completion of for
completion of the appropriation and application of water to a beneficial use as conditionally
decreed, including expenditures: $1,500,000.00 has been spent in constructing the infrastructure,
including the domestic water system, (pipelines, taps, hydrants, holding tanks, filtration systems,
measuring devices, etc.) necessary to distribute the water across the development for the decreed
uses. Middle HSR Pond, Upper HSR Pond and Brock Reservoir have been completed. Brock
Reservoir is only partially filled due to issues in the construction of Brock Dam that Applicant
plans to address in the future. Name and address of owner or reputed owners of the land upon
which any new diversion or storage structure, or modification to any existing diversion or
storage structure is or will be constructed or upon which water is or will be stored, including any
modification to the existing storage pool: Applicant and Albert Deepe, 412 High Meadow Ct,
Box 502, Hayden, CO 81639 and Robinson Construction, 21360 NW Amberwood Drive,
Hillsboro, OR 97124.
Below are amended applications that have been submitted for re-pulication
13CW3037, RIO BLANCO County, Colorado – Amended Application for Storage Water Right
and Surface Water Right, Dean’s Reservoir and Emily Spring, tributary to the White River, Applicant: Richard Parr and Artie Parr, P.O. Box 761, Meeker, CO 81641, c/o Edward B.
Olszewski, Olszewski, Massih & Maurer, P.C., P.O. Box 916, Glenwood Springs, Colorado
81602. An Amended Application was filed in this matter to correct the legal description for
Emily Spring as follows: NE1/4 NW1/4 Section 24, Township 1 North, Range 92 West of the
6th P.M., 1,790 feet East of the West line; 574 feet South of the North line. (5 pages, including 1
map)
13CW3038, RIO BLANCO County, Colorado – Amended Application for Surface Water
Rights, Hicks Spring No. 1, Hicks Spring No. 2, tributary to the White River, Applicant: Joyce
Hicks, P.O. Box 303, Meeker, Colorado 81641, (970) 878-5346, c/o Edward B. Olszewski,
Olszewski, Massih & Maurer, P.C., P.O. Box 916, Glenwood Springs, Colorado 81602. An
Amended Application was filed in this matter to correct the legal description for Hicks Spring
No. 2 and the Use or Proposed Use acreage as follows: Name of structure: Hicks Spring No. 2;
Legal description: SE ¼ of the NE ¼ of Section 18, Township 1 South, Range 93 West of the 6th
P.M. at a point 2,059 feet south of the north section line and 422 feet west of the east section
line. Use or Proposed Use: Irrigation; If irrigation, complete the following: Number of acres
historically irrigated: 0; proposed to be irrigated: 4.5 acres. Legal description of acreage: 4.5
acres located in the W ½ of the SW ¼ of Section 8, Township 1 South, Range 93 West of the
6th P.M. (5pages, including 1 map)
You are hereby notified that you will have until the last day of OCTOBER, 2014 to file with the
Water Court a Verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why a certain
Application should not be granted or why it should be granted only in part or on certain
conditions. A copy of such Statement of Opposition must be served on the Applicant or the
Applicant’s Attorney, with an affidavit or certificate of such service being filed with the Water
Court, as prescribed by Rule 5, C.R.C.P. The filing fee for the Statement of Opposition is
$158.00, and should be sent to the Clerk of the Water Court, Division 6, P.O. Box 773117,
Steamboat Springs, CO 80477.
MARY ANN NINGER
CLERK OF COURT
ROUTT COUNTY COMBINED COURT
WATER DIVISION 6
/s/ Sharon Martin
Deputy Court Clerk