WSP09154

• File Number: 8240.200.40.G
• Description: Yampa
• State: CO
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Water Division: 6
• Date: 1/1/1994
• Author: CWCB
• Title: Yampa River Basin Memorandum of Understanding Exhibit B
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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N. May 8, 1981. Case No. 79CWllO (Water Division No.6). Application for
water rights of Colorado-Ute Electric Association, Inc. and CRWCD. Decree
transfers 13,310 acre-feet of Juniper Reservoir to Elkhead Reservoir, Hayden
Reservoir, and Steamboat Lake under certain terms and conditions. Water right
transferred was a portion of the 19,000 acre-feet owned by Colorado-Ute in
Juniper Reservoir.

O. July 21, 1981. Water rights agreement between CRWCD and City of Craig,
Colorado. Agreement subordinates the River District's Juniper Project and Cross
Mountain Project water rights to 6,000 acre-feet of the Mitchell Reservoir water
right owned by Craig for a term specified in the agreement. CRWCD also grants
Craig the option to divert 10,000 acre-feet of water from Juniper Reservoir
directly or by exchange subject to certain terms and conditions.

II. CONVEYANCES

A. February 23, 1965. Deed between CRWCD (grantor) and Colorado-Ute Electric
Association, Inc. (grantee). CRWCD conveyed to Colorado-Ute the right to
5,000 acre-feet of water annually from the 1954 Juniper Reservoir storage right.

B. July 17, 1979. Deed between CRWCD (grantor) and Colorado-Ute Electric
Association, Inc. (grantee). CRWCD quit claimed 14,000 acre-feet of water from
1954 Juniper Reservoir water storage right subject to certain terms and
conditions.

C. July 17, 1979. Deed between CRWCD (grantor) and Colorado-Ute Electric
Association, Inc. (grantee). CRWCD quit claimed to Colorado-Ute 40,720 acre-
feet of the 43,220 acre-feet conditionally decreed to the Pleasant Valley Reservoir
and 300 c.f.s. conditionally decreed to the Pleasant Valley Feeder Canal water
right.

III. SUBORDINATIONS

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A. March 22, 1984. Case No. 83CW143 (Water Division No.6). In the matter of
the application for water rights of the Colorado River District. Decree adds a
new paragraph to the CRWCD's decree entered in Civil Action No. 1278, which
paragraph subordinates the Deadman Bench Canal, the Juniper Power Plant, and
the Juniper Reservoir water rights to "all in-basin water rights located upstream
of the decrees and adjudicated after the decrees . . . in the amount of the total
consumptive use of 65,000 acre-feet. The amount of water required to be
subordinated in order to provide a consumptive use of 65,000 acre-feet shall be

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