WSP10938

• File Number: 8449.900
• Description: Bear Creek
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Date: 1/1/1991
• Author: Batchley Assoc.
• Title: Bear Creek Operational Study - Vol. 1 - Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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year. The rest were short of meeting their requirements in three

to nine years. (See Table 5.) All agencies spilled water one to

six years. All shortages except one (Mt. Carbon) could have been

met if the agencies had sufficient storage space to hold the

water spilled as the spills exceed the releases short in Table 5.

All agencies used bookover space three to nine years with an

average of 42 acre-feet stored as bookover water during the study

period.

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scenario B (With Bookover) criteria and Assumptions

The objective of the operating plan is to maintain the

reservoir contents between 1569 acre-feet (Elevation 5554)

and 4194 acre-feet (Elevation 5573.97) while at the same

time allowing each entity to fully utilize its storage

allocation in the permanent and flood control pool.

The permanent pool (1974 acre-feet) and individual accounts

(405 acre-feet) within the permanent pool are full at the

beginning of the first year on January 1. Individual

accounts within the flood control pool (between 1974 acre-

feet and 4194 acre-feet) are empty at the beginning of the

first year on January 1.

Although the state does not have an account in the perma-

nent pool or flood control pool, it will be allowed to

store water up to the maximum of 2625 acre-feet, but only

if unoccupied space is available either in the permanent or

flood control pools. The state's water will be spilled

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