WSP08812

• File Number: 7630.275
• Description: Wild and Scenic-Flat Tops Wilderness Area
• State: CO
• Date: 8/3/1973
• Author: Felix Sparks
• Title: Flat Tops Wilderness Area-Memorandum-Flat Tops Wilderness Area
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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2. Carter Oil Company is also listed as claimant for Sti11-
~ter Reservoir, South Fork-Piceance Pipeline, South Fork Reservoir,
land the South Fork Pipeline, in case W-129 dated May, 1970 and in
Case W-787 dated February 5, 1973. Carter Oil company is a subsidiary
of Exxon Oil Company.

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3. The assets of the Fourteen Mile Land Company are under
'option contract for purchase by Exxon Oil Company (Clifford H. Jex
Engineers, 1965). -,^',.

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for the same
in Case W-57

Winston Wheeler and L. E. Phillips are listed as claimant
structures and diversions as above for Carter Oil Company
dated May, 1970.

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5. The law firm of Delaney and Ba1comb of Glenwood Springs
%epresent the interests of all the above. .

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6. In the FPC Permit'to the CRWCD, the District's proposal
consisted of three developments: namely, the Rio Blanco development
(Flat Tops): the South Fork development: and the Blair Mountain pumped
storage development. The South Fork development consisted of a dam to
create a reservoir of some 85,000 acre-feet capacity, a conduit system,
and a power plant. The Blair Mountain development included the forebay
at Carter Lake mentioned in my previous memorandum. The prospective
dam site is located some 13 miles upstream from the confluence of the
North and South Forks placing the reservoir in the region to be occupied
by..the South Fork Reservoir claimed by the Fourteen-Mile Land Company.

Water Development Synopsis"

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. Actually the Sweetwater Project has undergone several amend-
ments since its inception to finally include a vastly enlarged Meadows
Reservoir, a huge impoundment in South Fork Canyon, a collection system
on the eastern approaches'of the Flat Tops on Derby Creek, and a conduit
to transport water to ,the Piceance Basin. In filing order the amend-
ments are as follows: the Second Amended Meadows Reservoir at 132,555
acre-feet on 7/6/60; the Lost Solar Forebay Reservoir on 1/2/65: the
South Fork Afterbay Reservoir on 1/2/65: the Lost Solar Pump Conduit on
2/15/65: and the South Fork Canyon Reservoir at 159,272 acre-feet on
4/7/66. None of these filings have been decreed. The Derby Creek
collection system in Water District 53 was conditionally decreed on
10/19/62 with an appropriation date of 1/2/60. However, the CRWCD has
a senior decree on the North Fork of the Derby.

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Memorandwn

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August 3, 1973

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