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<br />Current Supplies and Storage <br /> <br />C-BT <br />C-BT water, including the multi-use yield from ownership of shares in the North <br />Poudre Irrigation Company (NPIC), is delivered year-round on demand directly <br />from Horsetooth Reservoir. <br /> <br />Poudre River Water <br />Water Supply and Storage Company shares owned by the District are the subject <br />of an Application for Change of Water Rights, Alternate Points of Diversion, <br />Alternate Places of Storage and Exchange submitted to District Court, Water <br />Division No. 1 and assigned Case Number 03-CW -422. <br /> <br />The decree sought by ELCO will allow diversion of water derived from its WSSC <br />shares at the Poudre River headgate of the Munroe Canal for delivery to the <br />Soldier Canyon Filter Plant through the Pleasant Valley Pipeline. By contract, <br />ELCO's use of the Pleasant Valley Pipeline is limited to seven months (April <br />through October). When converted WSSC water is available but not needed to <br />meet District demands, it will be diverted for storage or exchanged for water <br />deliverable at a different location or time. <br /> <br />The City of Thornton has converted 283 of the 600 WSSC shares for municipal <br />use. Conditions ofELCO's final decree are expected to resemble those <br />established for the City of Thornton. The Thornton Decree established in <br />Consolidated Cases No. 86CW401, 86CW402, 86CW403 and 87CW332 contains <br />the following monthly volume limits on diversion of water from the Poudre River <br />subject to direct flow decrees: <br /> <br />Monthly Volume Limits on Diversions Under Direct Flow Decrees - 87CW332 (acre-feet per share) <br /> <br /> April May June July Aug Sept Oct <br />Maximum in 0.51 26.49 40.81 18.37 7.78 3.69 0.47 <br />Any One Year <br />Maximum Running 0.10 10.43 19.81 6.47 4.26 1.93 0.24 <br />Average in Ten Years <br />Maximum Running <br />Average in any 0.05 6.67 16.36 5.41 3.76 1.59 0.12 <br />36 Year Period <br /> <br />ELCO owns agricultural water rights represented by shares in the following <br />companies: North Poudre Irrigation Company, Divide Canal and Reservoir <br />Company, Lake Canal and Reservoir Company, and Cache La Poudre Reservoir <br />Company. When possible, these water rights are exchanged on an annual basis <br />for C-BT water. When no C-BT water is available for exchange, the water rights <br /> <br />10 <br />