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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8220.102.01.G
Description
Colorado River - Water Projects - Aspinall Storage Unit - General - Water Rights
State
CO
Basin
Colorado Mainstem
Water Division
5
Date
10/10/2002
Author
Various
Title
Black Canyon of the Gunnison - ISF Water Rights-Flow Recommendations - Newspaper Articles-Press Releases 2002-2003 - 10-10-02 through 06-10-03
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News Article/Press Release
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<br />003308 <br /> <br />Agreement .' _.. <br />Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park <br /> <br />The undersigned parties, representing the Department of the Interior and the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board (CWCB), a division of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, <br />hereby agree to the following: <br /> <br />1. The National Park Service shall hold and benefit from a water right for the Black Canyon <br />of the Gunnison National ~ark, located on the Gunnison River in Colorado. The water <br />right shall be quantified for the Gunnison River from below the Gunnison Diverson Dam <br />through the Black Canyon to the confluence with the North Fork of the Gunnison River, <br />in two parts, as follows: <br /> <br />a. A federal reserved water right of300 cfs or natural fl9w, whichever is less, with a 1933 <br />priority date. Such federal water right will satisfy the CWCB' s existing instream flow <br />decree. <br /> <br />. b. An instream flow water right under Color~do law with a 2003 priority date. Beginning <br />with each year's April 1 forecast from the Colorado River-River Forecast Center, if Blue <br />Mesa Reservoir is projected to fill and spiU by July 31, water beyond that which satisfies <br />present and future obligations of the authorized purposes of the Aspinall Unit, as <br />. specified in the Colorado River Storage Project Act, 43 U.S.C. ~ 620 et seq., as amended <br />through the date of this agreement, shall be held by the CWCB for decreed instream flow <br />purposes with a 2003 priority date. <br /> <br />1. . . As reflected in the chart below, the Bureau of Reclamation anticipates that, based <br />on current operations of the Aspinall Unit pursuant to the authorized purposes <br />(after the subordination of the Aspinall Unit to 60,000 acre-feet of depletion <br />upstream ofthe Unit for in-basin water use), the peak flow amounts reflected in <br />. the chart can be reasonably expected, based on historical averages ofthe last <br />twenty-six years, to pass through the Aspinall Unit system by the Bureau of <br />Reclamation through its operations, to be exercised by CWCB for the instream <br />flow right with a 2003 priority date. There is no gUarantee that these same <br />amounts will be available in the future, how~ver, because the ultmate amount of <br />. water that will be available in the future is dependent upon many factors, <br />including where the wat'eds removed from the system,. the hYdrology and the <br />timing of the hydrology, future project demand, and reservoir elevation at the <br />beginning of the run-off season. In light of these considerations, on an annual <br />basis and prior to the spring run-ofT, the Blireau of Reclamation shall cOllsult with <br />the National Park Service, the Western Area Power Administration, the United <br />States Fish and Wildlife Service, the CWCB, the Colorado Water River Water <br />Conservation District, the Uncompahgre Valley Water Users Association, the <br /> <br />." <br />
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