WSP11585

• File Number: 8445
• Description: Union Park
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 10/1/1989
• Author: WRC Engineering
• Title: Engineering Report fo the Union Park Project Water Rights
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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On August 29,1988 NECO (seller) and Arapahoe County (purchaser) signed
an agreement for sale of the Union Park Project. Under the provisions of
the agreement the County acquired 1) A conditional decree to store
approximately 325,000 acre-feet of water for power purposes in the Union
Park Reservoir issued by the Water Court in Montrose in Case No. 82CW340.
2) Water storage rights for municipal and transmountain diversion
pu rposes at Uni on Park Reservoi r fil ed by NECD with the Water Court in
Montrose in Case No. 86CW226. 3) All other facilities, structures,
rights-of-way, governmental permits, titles, and interests associated
with the Union Park Project. From the original decree in Case No.
82CW340, NECD retained 4,450 acre-feet at the Rocky Point Reservoir
alternate point of diversion.

The County became a substitute Applicant in Case Nos. 86CW226 and 88CWD20
filed by NECO and which are currently pending with the Water Court in
Montrose. In addition, Arapahoe County has filed an appl ication with the
Water Court in Case No. 88CW178, requesting conditional storage rights,
surface water rights, and for a change of water rights.

D. General Project Description
The Union Park Project is comprised of a number of different facilities
aimed at diverting, storing and delivering unappropriated water to
Arapahoe County. These facil ities include Union Park Dam, Union Park
Reservoir, aqueduct (tunnels and conduits) to deliver water from Union
Park Reservoir to South Platte Basin upstream of Antero Reservoir, Taylor
River Diversion, and a pumping / power generation plant. The Taylor Park

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