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. . . -~ ~ : 5. Colorado River mainstem: The Shoshone hydro plant placed a call today for its senior water right. We will begin curtailing rights junior to Dillon Reservoir to meet this call and as river flows decrease we will curtail additional rights. The Colorado Ground Water Commission met in Grand Junction in August and toured the Government Highline canal diversion works and fish ladder as well as other water diversion features in the area. 6. Yampa, White and North Platte River basins: The flows throughout these basins are below average with the White River having the best flow conditions. The flows in the North Platte basin are well below average and the Michigan and Illinois River and tribs have been on call. The Steamboat RICD could have called this year ifthe proper measuring devices had been installed and we expect them to be in place by next year. 7. San Juan and Dolores River basins: The flows have been very low and dry conditions persist. The La Plata River compact administration has been very difficult and we have been rotating deliveries on five day intervals to Colorado and New Mexico water users. I received a letter dated July 14,2006 from John D' Antonio, New Mexico State Engineer, stating that even with the rotation between states, that they expected us to deliver one-half the flows at Hesperus irregardless of channel losses. We have totally curtailed Colorado users during the five day rotation to New Mexico and have bypassed sufficient water in the Colorado rotation to keep the channel ''wet'' so that losses will be reduced. The river continued to drop and we went to a "split-river" administration and this resulted in another letter from John D'Antonio expressing his official concern. I spoke to John personally and he understands the problem when flow at the Hesperus gage is below 15 cfs. We had rains starting last weekend and the flow increased to 45 cfs and we are attempting do deliver one-half of the Hesperus flows to the state line.