WSP12636

• File Number: 8282.300
• Description: Colorado River Operations and Accounting - Lower Basin Administrative Procedures
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 8/1/1996
• Author: DOI-BOR
• Title: Description and Assessment of Operations-Maintenance and Sensitive Species of the Lower Colorado River - Volume II - Appendices-Etc - 08-01-96
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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002529

Tributaries: all stream systems the waters of which naturally drain into the mainstream of
the Colorado River below Lees Ferry.

Unauthorized use: any diversion or consumptive use 'of Colorado River water without an
entitlement or not in conformance with an entitlement.

Unused ap,portionment: Colorado River water within a lower ba<;in State's basic or surplus
apportionment, or both, which is not put to beneficial consumptive use in that year within
that State.

~: a nonbeneficial use of water such as the diversion of an extravagant quantity, use of
an exceedingly inefficient delivery system, or other such practice which results in a loss of
water from the system which could have been put to beneficial use.

Water user: any person or entity diverting and using Colorado River water.

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