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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />~,..,'ft:.~"7 <br />1) J~) ,~)V <br /> <br />."~ <br /> <br />LOWER SOUTH PLATTE BASIN COOPERATIVE <br />WATER AGREEMENT <br /> <br />FACT SHEET <br /> <br />AGREEMENT: TO WORK COOPERATIVELY FOR WATER DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT <br />. ALTERNATIVES FOR THE LOWER SOUTH PLATTE RIVER BASIN <br /> <br />ENTERED INTO BY: <br />CENTRAL COLORADO WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT <br />LOWER SOUTH PLATTE WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT <br />NORTHERN COLORADO WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT <br />RIVERSIDE IRRIGATION DISTRICT <br />IRRIGATIONIST'S ASSOCIATION <br />PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF COLORADO <br /> <br />PARTIES TO THE AGREEMENT ARE PARTIES IN THE NARROWS DILIGENCE CASE, <br />86-CW-136, WHICH IS FILED IN WATER COURT DIVISION NO.1, GREELEY, COLORADO <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />SETTLEMENT ~ACHED BY PARTIES IN AGREEMENT: <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />Central Colorado and Lower South Platte Water Conservancy Districts are. <br />allowing junior water diverters to store ahead of the Narrows water decree, <br />which has a 1957 water right for approximately 700,000 acre-feet. <br /> <br />In exchange. for allowing diverters to store water ahead of Narrows, Central <br />Colorado and Lower South Platte Water Conservancy Districts are receiving. <br />support fro~ water groups to work cooperatively for water development and <br />management in the Lower South Platte River Basin. <br /> <br />All parties agree to cooperatively work together to develop storage of at <br />least 30,000 acre-feet of water on the South Platte River, or a tributary, <br />and to provide protection of ditch and well users. <br /> <br />Central, Lower, and Northern agree to form a committee in <br />enter into a contractual relationship to develop an <br />management plan to enhance water rights in the basin. <br /> <br />August, 1987, and <br />integrated water <br /> <br />Central and Lower agree that the water right awarded to the Narrows project <br />will not be used to callout or impair the diversions or operation, without <br />enlargement, of the following: <br /> <br />Proposed Cache la poudre Water & Power Project in the Poudre River Basin, <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />The conditional water storage right for the proposed Wildcat Reservoir, <br />which would be located near Fort Morgan, Colorado; <br /> <br />The various augmentation plans located in the South Platte River Basin, <br />and <br /> <br />Public Service's facilities associated with the Pawnee Power Plant, which <br />is located between Brush and Fort Morgan. <br /> <br />,~" <br /> <br />,,~" <br /> <br />;iSm' <br />