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<br />I, <br />I <br /> <br />,;:1, <br />,.11 . <br /> <br />d~d~ <br />I <br /> <br />Under the amended plans, water would be released from the <br />Second Amended Meadows Reservoir to Sweetwater Creek via the Plateau <br />Tunnel at 260 cfs and to the South Fork channel to be later impounded <br />by the South Fork Canyon Reservoir. Both reservoirs would interact in <br />power production with the Lost Solar Forebay Reservoir up on Lost Solar <br />creek. Releases from this reservoir would be to the channel and to <br />the Elk-Rifle Water Supply Co. and to oil shale interests in the Piceance <br />Basin via the Lost Solar Pump Conduit at 255 cfs. Reported hydrologic <br />studies by the RMPC indicate that ,some 200,000 acre-feet annually would <br />be available for filling and refilling the Meadows. Conditional decrees <br />from Derby Creek could easily supply 100,000 acre-feet to the Sweetwater <br />Project. <br /> <br />The Fourteen-Mile Land Company is a claimant" for the South <br />Fork Reservoir of 85,342 acre-feet and the Stillwater Reservoir of <br />12,845 acre-feet. StillWater Reservoir would be located some 4 miles <br />do~stream from the South Fork campground which is located at the extreme <br />southwest end of the proposed Wilderness Area. Water would be released <br />from the South Fork Reservoir to the river channel and to the headwaters <br />of Piceance Creek via the South Fork Pipeline at 100 cfa. Water would <br />be released from Stillwater Reservoir' to the river channel and to the <br />headwaters of Piceance Creek via the South Fork-Piceance Pipeline at <br />,70 cfs. Both pipelines follow the South Fork to the White River thence <br />west and south to the headwaters of Piceance Creek. <br /> <br />" Energy Resources Technology Land, Inc., claims the Ertl <br />(Dr. Thomas Ertl) Pipeline~ This pipeline is designed to collect the <br />waters of Buck Creek, Short Creek, and Patterson Creek, all tributary <br />to the upper South Fork of the White River, for distribution to the <br />Piceance Creek headwaters at 30 cfs. <br /> <br />" Winston Wheeler and L. E. Phillips are claimants for 29.4 cfs <br />from the ,Phillips Ditch having a headgateon the left bank of the South <br />Fork just below the end of South Fork Canyon. The records indicate <br />that there is an absolute decree of 13.0 cfs, dated 6/13/60, out of the <br />original conditional decree. <br /> <br />The Colorado River Water Conservation District's Flat TOps <br />Project, as filed in the State Engineer's records includes Rio Blanco <br />Reservoir, the Patterson Creek Collection System, Piceance Basin Pipe- <br />line, and the Flat Tops" Tunnel. Releases from the reservoir would be <br />to the river channel and 254 cfs to Canyon Creek, tributary of the <br />Colorado River, via the Flat Tops Tunnel. Of the chann~l releases, <br />60 cfs would be diverted to, the Piceance Creek Basin for industrial <br />purposes via the Piceance Basin Pipeline. There are"no additional <br />filings to this project~ <br /> <br />, Memorandum <br /> <br />-3- <br /> <br />August 3, 1973 <br /> <br />". <br />