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<br />o <br />.-, <br />~ <br />~ <br />00 <br />w <br /> <br />e. Kansas has declined to approve request by ditch owner to approve use of Keesee Ditch <br />at or above John Martin Reservoir until compact litigation is resolved. <br />f. ARCA may impose 35 percent surcharge on any water stored in special accounts. <br />g. Storage under the 1980 agreement is limited to periods when conservation storage <br />occurs and has averaged approximately 923 AF. <br />h. Keesee Ditch has an allocation of 2.03 percent of conservation storage pursuant to the <br />1980 agreement. <br /> <br />Las Animas Consolidated Ditch: <br />(See Table 1, Figures 7 and 8) <br />1. Located immediately upstream of John Martin Reservoir. <br /> <br />k h-+" ~ ~)'\)&l1-,Jc <br /> <br />2. Public Service Company of Colorado owns approximately 75 percent. <br /> <br />3. Change in use for domestic, municipal, recreation, and all other beneficial uses has been <br />obtained in 80CW052. <br /> <br />4. Decree limits uses to present irrigated lands and at the power plant site near Las Animas. <br /> <br />5. Decreed average yield is 12,513 AF per year for Public Service Company's portion. <br /> <br />6. LACD has an Article III account of 5,000 AF for agricultural purposes in John Martin <br />Reservoir. This is filled as part of the winter water-storage program. This account has <br />produced about 4,000 AF per year after deduction of 35 percent for storage surcharge. <br /> <br />7. LACD would provide additional water for the Great Plains Reservoirs through exchange to <br />Ft. Lyon Canal and delivery via the Kicking Bird Canal or pumping plant. This exchange <br />would be best achieved through use of a storage account in John Martin Reservoir, but this <br />may result in a storage surcharge of 35 percent. <br /> <br />8. Institutional constraints to use in John Martin Reservoir. <br />a. Change in use to storage in John Martin Reservoir and exchange to Great Plains <br />Reservoir must be obtained from the Water Court and may be difficult due to local <br />objectors. <br />b. Storage account in John Martin Reservoir for exchange to Great Plains Reservoirs must <br />be approved by ARCA. <br />c. Kansas may demand wells junior to compact be abandoned. <br />d. AReA may impose 35 percent surcharge on water stored in special account. <br /> <br />Short-Term Interim Possibilities for John Martin Reservoir Permanent Pool: <br />1. Water stored in District 67 ditch accounts may be leased on year-to-year basis and left in <br />reservoir. j/ll"",~ J"..... -'> *,>k.L- <br /> <br />2. LACD winter water-storage program water owned by Public Service Company could be <br />leased and left in reservoir which may yield about 3,000 AF per year. <br /> <br />3 <br />