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<br />Decrees for the east slope Project facilities were entered in District Courts in and for the <br />Counties of Chaffee and Pueblo, State of Colorado. The Chaffee County District Court <br />decree entered in Civil Action No. 5141 includes Turquoise Lake, Twin Lakes Reservoir, <br />Mt. Elbert Forebay, Mt. Elbert Conduit, and Halfmoon Diversion Dam. This decree, <br />dated July 9, 1969, established a date of appropriation of February 10, 1939. However, <br />the decree states: " As to water rights heretofore adjudicated in this district (11), priorities <br />for irrigation granted by this decree shall be enforceable only as of July 14, 1942, and <br />priorities for purposes other than irrigation granted by this decree shall be enforceable <br />only as of December 15, 1942." The Pueblo County District Court decree entered in Civil <br />Action No. B-42135 for Pueblo Reservoir, dated June 25, 1962, established a date of <br />appropriation of February 10, 1939. <br /> <br />The Colorado River Water Conservation District holds the decree for storage at Ruedi <br />Reservoir. The decree was entered in Civil Action No. 4613 in and for the County of <br />Garfield, State of Colorado, and is dated May 12, 1958, with a date of appropriation of <br />July 29, 1957. <br /> <br />The estimated average annual yield of the Project facilities and water rights available for <br />use in the Arkansas River Basin by entities within the boundaries of the Southeastern <br />Colorado Water Conservancy District is 80,400 acre-feet. This estimate includes water <br />diverted from the West Slope and any East Slope (native) water stored pursuant to the <br />1939 storage decree. <br /> <br />Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District- <br /> <br />The Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District was created under Colorado State <br />Statutes on April 29, 1958 by the District Court in Pueblo, Colorado, for the purpose of <br />developing and administering the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. The District extends along <br />the Arkansas River from Buena Vista to Lamar, and along Fountain Creek from Colorado <br />Springs to Pueblo. The District consists of parts of nine counties deriving benefits from <br />the Project. <br /> <br />The District is the legal agency responsible for repayment of the reimbursable costs of <br />the Project. In addition to administering this repayment responsibility, the District makes <br />supplemental water from the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project available for use by <br />approximately 280,600 acres of irrigated land under various private and mutual ditch <br />companies, and for use by the many municipal and domestic water suppliers who directly <br />serve the District's approximately 600,000 constituents. The District is governed by a 15 <br />member board of directors representing the nine counties within the Conservancy <br />District. Each Board member is appointed by the State's District Court system. Members <br />serve for four-year terms and are then subject to re-appointment. <br />