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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in Bear Creek Reservoir from the Colorado Department of Natural

Resources. The then Executive Director of the Colorado Depart-

ment of Natural Resources gave tentative approval to these re-

quests, which totaled 305 acre-feet, on the condition that the

State of Colorado would not grant final approval until a complete

operating plan was submitted by each entity for review by the

Department and until approval was secured from the U.S. Corps of

Engineers.

Following ~he initial request, additional storage space has

been requested by Genesee, Evergreen, Mt. Carbon Water and Sani-

tation District (Mt. Carbon) and the City of Lakewood (Lakewood)

for the storage of municipal and augmentation water supplies.

Subsequently, Morrison advised all parties that it would relin-

quish 100 acre-feet of their space reservation. That space was

reassigned to Genesee as per their written request. The requests

for storage space subsequent to the initial requests for 305

acre-feet totaled 2025 acre-feet.

In February 1988 the City of Englewood (Englewood) requested

that they be included with the other six entities as a recipient

of storage space in Bear Creek Reservoir. The six entities did

not object to Englewood's participation in this study or use of

storage capacity in Bear Creek Reservoir provided that:

A. Englewood's requested storage reservation would not ad-

versely affect the permanent pool or any accounts granted

therein..

B. Englewood's request for 600 acre-feet of storage space, if

granted, would be accommodated only in the flood control

pool.

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