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<br />1. The purpose of this policy is to set forth a fair an orderly policy for the handling of <br />sales of return flows from Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Water, consistent with the <br />Allocation Principles and other policies of the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy <br />District. . . . <br /> <br />2. Fry-Ark return flows from Project water allocations to served thereby should be made <br />available where physically possible on the basis of water which they acquire from the <br />Project. The District's decreed Allocation Principles (~ 11) provide such a first right of <br />refusal for cities and towns receiving Project water. This right has been extended by the <br />District to all eligible entities receiving Project water by allocation... <br /> <br />10. The Enterprise Allocation Committee will estimate the amount of Fry-Ark return flow <br />water available for sale in a given year, and Fry-Ark return flows will be sold based on <br />such estimate. <br /> <br />12. The purchaser of Fry-Ark return flows shall not resell, assign, or lease, or trade Fry- <br />Ark return flows without written consent of the Enterprise, except cities, towns, and <br />domestic water companies, may resell Fry-ark return flows purchased from the Enterprise <br />within their service areas. <br /> <br />13. Fry-Ark return flow water shall not be used, sold, or disposed of outside the <br />Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District. <br /> <br />14. Purchasers of Fry-Ark return flows may use and reuse the water to extinction, if the <br />user so chooses. Any Fry-Ark return flows purchased, but not used to extinction, will <br />return to the Arkansas River stream system after the purchaser's approved use, and are <br />the property of the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District. Purchasers shall <br />not waste Fry-Ark return flows. <br /> <br />Winter Water Storage Program- <br /> <br />During the early planning stages of the Project, individuals and entities envisioned what <br />has become known as the Winter Water Storage Program. Prior to construction of Pueblo <br />Dam, the various irrigation entities would divert the flow of the Arkansas River when in <br />priority outside of the normal irrigation season to maintain soil moisture levels in the <br />fields where crops would be grown during the following season. Problems associated <br />with winter operation of canal and lateral systems, labor, and related items were <br />frequently experienced. <br /> <br />As a result, the concept of a Winter Water Storage Program evolved with the objective of <br />storing waters that otherwise would have been diverted to the fields downstream of <br />Pueblo Reservoir or the reservoirs of those entities whose diversions to storage were <br />located upstream of John Martin Reservoir. These stored waters would then be released <br />during the following irrigation season. Following the closure of Pueblo Dam in 1974, the <br />District, with the cooperation of various entities in the Basin, promoted and operated <br />