WSP10420

• File Number: 8143.800
• Description: John Martin Reservoir
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 1/1/2001
• Author: SEO
• Title: Report of the State Engineer Concerning Accounting of the Operations of an Offset Account in John Martin Reservoir for Colorado Pumping 2001
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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December 1, 2001

Report of the Colorado State Engineer

Offset Account Operations

November 1,2000 to October 31,2001

An Offset Account in John Martin Reservoir was authorized by the Resolution
Concerning an Offset Account in John Martin Reservoir for Colorado Pumping
dated March 17, 1997 ("Resolution") and by the Resolution Concerning an Offset
Account in John Martin Reservoir for Colorado Pumping As Amended March 30,
1998 ("Amended Resolution").

This report summarizes the operations conducted using the Offset Account for the
period November 1,2000 through October 31,2001 and has been prepared pursuant
to paragraph 11 of the Amended Resolution.

At 0000 hours, November 1, 2000 the Offset Account contained 1059.10 acre-feet.
From November 1,2000 through October 31,2001 there were deliveries to and'
releases from the Offset Account as summarized in the tables below. On March 31,
2001, 500 acre-feet of fully consumable water was delivered to the Offset Account to
satisfy the Storage Charge prerequisite for using the account for another year. Copies
of the correspondence describing this delivery are included in Section 3.

In Section 1, a monthly summary of the contents of the Offset Account is provided in
Table 1. A summary of the subaccounts of the Offset Account is provided in Tables A
through 8.2. The outline preceding the tables in Section 1 provides an explanation of
the purpose of each subaccount.

Section 2 of this report contains the daily accounting records, by month, for all
subaccounts in the Offset Account.

From November 1,2000 through October 31,2001, there were three deliveries of
water to the Offset Account, including the delivery of 500 acre-feet of fully consumable
water to satisfy the Storage Charge. These deliveries are summarized in the following
table.

Source Delivery End Date Amount to Offset Net Consumable Net Return Flow
Account tac-ftl Waler tac-ft\ Waler (ac-ftl
LAWMA (Article II) March 31. 2001 1688.11 1000.00 688.11
LAWMA (Article II) Auousl 10, 2001 1100.98 500.00 600.98
LAWMA (Highland Canal October 31. 2001 1.928.85 1,928.85 0.00
Shares)
TOTALS 4.717.94 3.428.85 1289.09