WSP12093

• File Number: 8126.200
• Description: Arkansas River Coordinating Committee - Bylaws - Rules - Guidelines
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 7/13/1994
• Author: Unknown
• Title: Allocation Principles Findings Determinations and Resolutions
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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ALLOCA TION PRINCIPLES
FINDINGS. DETERMINATIONS AND RE 01!m;rloNs
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The Board of Djrectors of the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy OlS-

trict in regular meeting assembled hereby finds and determines:

1. The total Project water supply of the :i:ryingpan..ArkansasProJect available

for allocation as estimated by the Bureau of Reclamation's Computer Operation Study

No. .f0051. including an estimated evaporation charge prorated equally to all storage

rights. is 80,400 acre-leet, 01 which 56,900 acre-Ieet are waters imported lrom the

Colo.r.do River a.nd its tributa.riea and 23.500 aere-feet are storable flood flows of the

Arkansas River and 1ts tributaries. None of the Winter Water Storage Project waters

are considered Project waters.

2. The quantities in Finding 1 above are premised upon the completion of the

Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. as now authorized by Congress and under average ordin-

ary operating conditions. The Board recognizes that there is no floor under importa-

tions from the Colorado River. and there 18 a ceiling of 120.000 acre-feet lrom which

there must be deducted internal Project uses, evaporation and transit losses. The

storable tlood flows on the Arkansas River may vary from 0 acre...leet to a full Pueblo

Reservoir in anyone year.

3. The Fryingpan-Arkansas Project mUSl be operated and its waters must be

allocated consistent with the requirements of the statutes of the United States. the State

ot Colorado, the Repayment Contracts between the United States and the Southeastern

Colorado Water Conservancy D1strict, and the Operating Principles. all as amended m

the past or luture. The Fryingpan-kkansas Project was authorized by Public Law 87-

590, 87th Congress. J. R. 2206. A1gust 16. 1962. and Section 3{a) thereol requires 'he

Project to be operated in accordance with the Operating Principles adopted by the State

or Colorado on December 9. 1960. and reproduced in House Document 130. 87th Con.

gress. Section 13 oC said Operating Principles specifies:

13. The Project will be operated 1n such a manner that those in Eastern
Colorado using Project water imported from the Colorado River Basin for
domestic purposes shall have preterence over those claiming or using water
lor any other purpose.

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4. The Board nod that within the limi.ts or said requirements. the basis of

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