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feet. The most junior decree can be used to refill the reservoir after releases for irrigation are <br />made, up to 37,709 acre-feet. Bijou Reservoir 2 has two storage rights, an 9,183 acre-feet to fill <br />and refill the reservoir, although the reservoir is now used for augmentation <br />Table 4 <br />Stora a Ri hts 1 <br /> <br />Source <br />Structure Appropriation Adjudication Administration Decreed <br />Amount <br /> Date Date No. (afl <br />h Pl <br />S E <br />i 5/18/1905 1/13/1936 20226.00000 z 37,709 <br />out <br />atte mp <br />re <br />Ri R <br />i 5/18/1905 1/13/1936 26302.20226 37,709 <br />ver eservo <br />r 12/31/1929 6/8/1965 31423.29219 37,709 <br /> <br />South Platte Bijou 1/15/1909 1/15/1914 21564.00000 9,183 <br />River Reservoir2 12/31/1929 6/8/1965 31423.29219 9,183 <br />Notes: 1. Colorado Water Rights Tabulation <br />2. Limited to a volume of 37,709 of diverted at the South Platte River <br />Reservoir Accounts: All of the storage water in Empire Reservoir and direct flow water owned <br />by the District or the Company is used for irrigation on lands within the System. <br />Stockholders are entitled to receive apro-rata annual allotment of water for each <br />"bonded" acre within the District. Average historical water allotment in the District has <br />been 1 acre-foot per District acre. In addition, the District owns approximately 68.5 <br />percent of the Company shares, or 2,750 shares out of 4,000 outstanding. Therefore, if a <br />land owner owns "bonded" acres within the District, the land owner will have ownership <br />in both the District and the Company. Stockholders can also independently own shares in <br />the Company and are then entitled to receive apro-rata annual allotment for each share. <br />Average historical water allotment in the Company has been 1.5 acre-feet per Company <br />share. <br />Augmentation Plan <br />In its early years, the System realized that Bijou No. 2 Reservoir was not adequate to serve as a <br />storage facility due to large seepage losses. In 1972, the Company filed two applications to the <br />Water Court for both a plan of augmentation that allows the System to provide replacement <br />water for out-of-priority pumping from wells located within the System and a change of use of <br />Bijou No. 2 Reservoir to the extent that the reservoir and its decreed rights could be used in the <br />Company's plan of augmentation (Case Nos. W-2704 & W-9172-78). The two cases were <br />consolidated, and provided the decree for the Company's plan of augmentation. Replacement <br />water from this augmentation plan comes from recharge credits that result from seepage from the <br />Bijou Canal and/or recharge credits from the Bijou No. 2 Reservoir. Recharge from seepage <br />cannot be credited when System irrigation is occurring in the canal, but can be credited if only <br />designated augmentation water is being conveyed in the canal. When the Company runs <br />augmentation water at the same time as irrigation deliveries to Putnam, recharge on the canal is <br />measured at the Peggram check structure, below the Putnam diversion. If Putnam is not running <br />irrigation water, measurements for augmentation are taken at the 20' Parshall flume at the river. <br />Bijou Irrigation System 11 of 13 <br />