WSP09813

• File Number: 8430.100
• Description: Water User Groups and Conservancy Districts - Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Date: 4/15/1969
• Author: NCWCD
• Title: 31 st Annual Report 1968
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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AT QUOTA TIME, 'WATER SUPPLY PROSPECTS AOOVE AVERAGE

rOR[CASTS or RUNorr R[L[AS[D [ARLY
IN APRIL BY TH[ VARIOUS rOR[CASTING AG[..-
CICS INOICAT[D nUT TRIBUTARY STR[AMS
WOULD PRODUC[ 95:1" TO 120"- or ",V[IUGE rLOW
"OR TH[ Y["R, THIS, COUPL[D ....ITH STORAGe
RCSERVes IN DITCH C~P"NY R[S[RVOIRS ~ICH
WOIE 118~ or AV[R..ee, PLUS GOOD SOIL "4015-
TURE CONOITIONS, MAO[ JT APPEAR THAT THE
R[OUIREM[NT rOR sUPPL[M[..TATION rROM TH[
PRO~[CT sYST~ ....OULD BE L[SS THAN NO~AL.

APRIL 1
AVAILABLE SUPPLIES

1958-196)
AVERAGE
SUPPLY

1968
PROSPECTS

IN .....O<J..G EACH OUOTA O[TERMINATION,
THE PRlM"RY CONCERN or THC BOARO IS, or
COURs[, "ULrILLMENT AS NCARLY AS POSSIBLE
0" THE "[[0 f"OR SUPPLEME'nATION Of" LOCAL
WATER SUPPLIES, ANOTHER HIGH PRIORITy
CONSID[RATION Js MAXIMUM CONSCRVATION
AND 8[NCf"ICIAL USE 0; ALL WATCR SIJPPLICs
AVAILABLC TO THC WATER USERS IN TH( DIS_
TRICT. TH(SC rACTORS, PLUS Tli( POSSIBLC
[;"[CT or CHANGCS IN WCATHCR pATTCRN ON
Ru..orf", ....ATER USE, A..D CARRY-OVER STORAGE
RCSERVES MUST BE TA/O\EN INTO ACCOUNT.

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ArTCR TAO<ING ALL or THE ABOV[
rACTORs INTO CONSIDERATION, Tli( BOARD
AT ITS "QuOTA" I'4[ETING ON APRIL 5 SCT
THC OCLIVCRABLE QuANTITY rOR (ACH ALLOTT[O
IJNIT or PRO~CCT WATER AT 60% or A rULL ACRe-
rOOT. THIS PROVIDED 186,000 ACRe-r(El or
.......leR TO DISTRICT ALLOTMENT CO~TRACT HOLDERS
AS A SIJPPL[MENT TO OTHeR SIJPPLICS AVAILABLE
TO THEM, WITH THE ANNOUNCEMC"'T or THE O\.IOTA BY T"C BoARD AND O(NOWLEDGE OF' OTHCR PROSPECT IVC
....ATER SUPPLI[S AVAILABLE TO THCM, ALL IRRIGATORS IN Tli[ DISTRICT SCRVlce AR[A ....eRe ABLC TO
PLAN THEIR CROP PLANTINGS ....,TH AS ...UC.. ASSURA"'C[ or O<NOWN .......TER SIJPPLY, AS IT IS POSSIBLE TO
ACHleV[. Of.lLY Tli( VAGARIES or C"A"'GING ....eATHCR PATTeRNS A"D THCIR CFFCCT ON FARIoI IRRIG...TION
R(OU I R[IolC"T R[...... I "[0 AS UNC(RTAIN ELO"(NTS IN THC ....A TER SUPPL Y PI CTIJRI:.

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DITCH COMPANY STORAGE

caT ACTIVE STORAGE

STREAM F"lOo.'

11ol1ol[DIAT(LY AFT(R TME QUOTA ....AS ANNOUNCCD. OUOTA C(RTlr'CA110" LISTS ....eR( S(..l, AS USUAL,
TO ALL CARRI[R DITCH SYS1EIolS OR OTHCR [NTJTI(S SCRVING DISTRICl AI..LOTT(C5. THese LISTS SHOW
THE 4IolOUNT Of" WATCR DELIVCRABLE TO EAC.. CO"'TRACT ALLOTTCE FOR TH[ Y(AR.

Of" THC 186,000 ACR[~FE~l OECLAR(D IN Tli( QuOTA RCLE"'SE, 165,805 ACR(-F(CT ....ER( C[RTlrIEO
rOR O[LIVERY. T"E REMAINING 195 ACR(-reET REPR(S[NT CONTRACTS f"OR 325 ALLOTTED UNITS ON WMIC"
N[EDCD CORRECTIVE ACTION HAD NOT BCEN COMPL[TCD AT T"C END 0; THE T[AR.

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