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<br />" <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />.;. <br /> <br />Once the interested parties have verified the depletion accounting, the accounting will <br />be submitted to the Recovery Program for final review and distribution as appropriate. <br />Based on the information collected to date there appears to have been no dectable <br />increase in the consumptive uses upstream of the IS-mile reach. The final draft should <br />be available for review in the next couple of months. <br /> <br />Gunnison River Basin <br /> <br />Aspinall Operations: An Aspinall Operations meeting was held Thursday, April 26, <br />2007 in Grand Junction. Updated reservoir information and a full meeting summary are <br />available on Reclamation's web site at: http://www.usbr.gov/uc/water/crsp/cs/asp.html. <br /> <br />Snowpack in the Gunnison Basin is 66% of average. Blue Mesa inflow forecasts <br />decreased from January to April and outflows were decreased accordingly. Outflows <br />are increasing now due to increased demands downstream. The Gunnison Tunnel is <br />currently drawing only 700 cfs, as the weather has caused a 2 week delay in agricultural <br />practices and therefore demand is still low. The Tunnel will increase to 1000 cfs as <br />demand increases. <br /> <br />Blue Mesa is not expected to fill this year and therefore no springtime peak releases are <br />anticipated to for the Black Canyon National Park or endangered fish purposes. Black <br />Canyon flows may range from approximately 500 to 750 cfs this summer. <br /> <br />Storage at other reservoirs in the Gunnison Basin is as follows: <br />Silver Jack Reservoir is full. <br />Paonia, Crawford and Fruitgrowers reservoirs are expected to fill. <br />Ridgway Reservoir is expected to fill. <br />Taylor Park Reservoir is expected to fill. <br /> <br />Next Aspinall Ops meeting will be Thursday August 30th at the Elk Creek Visitors <br />Center. <br /> <br />Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park Federal Reserved Water Right: <br />The Park was granted a federal reserved water right in the 1968 USA v Denver Supreme <br />Court Case, however, the amount of that water right was never determined in the case. <br />In January 2001 the Federal Government (NPS) filed an application to quantify that <br />reserved water right. That application sought variable base flows of 300 cfs or more and <br />sought a one day peak of up to 14,500 cfs with defined daily ramping rates of 500 cfs up <br /> <br />21 <br />