WSP10505

• File Number: 8143.800
• Description: John Martin Reservoir - Water Sales and Contracts
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 12/1/2003
• Title: Report of the Colorado State Engineer - Concerning Accounting of the Operations of an Offset Account in John Martin Reservoir for Colorado Pumping - 2003
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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December 1, 2003

Report of the Colorado State Engineer

Offset Account Operations

November 1, 2002 to October 31, 2003

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, 2002 through October 31, 2003 and has been prepared pursuant to paragraph
11 of the Amended Resolution.

At 0000 hours, November 1, 2002 the Offset Account contained 8318.37 acre-feet. From
November 1, 2002 through October 31, 2003 there were deliveries to the Offset Account as
summarized in the tables below. There were no releases from the Offset Account for delivery
to Kansas during this period. On March 31, 2003, 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 B.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, 2002 through October 31, 2003, there were six 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 iO{,Off~;t Net co~~~mable Net Re;u{n F~~w
Account ac-ft Water ac-ft) Water ac-ft
LAWMA (Article III February 28 2003 286.96 153.99 132.97
Fort Lvon Article liD March 31 2003 1000.00 1000.00 0.00
LAWMA Article II ADrll 24 2003 418.00 188.10 229.90
LAWMA (Article II) June 4,2003;June 13, 773.95 . 467.54 306.41
2003
LAWMA (Highland Canal October 31, 2003 2476.90 2476.90 0.00
Shares)
LAWMA (Keesee Ditch October 31, 2003 3641.60 3473.20 168.40
Shares)
TOTALS 8597.41 7759.73 837.68