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basin, diverted water is generally stored in Joe Wright Reservoir or Chambers Lake. Table 1 <br />presents the details of the associated direct flow rights. <br />Table 1 <br />Direct Flow Water Rights <br />Structure Administration Appropriation Adjudication Decreed <br />Name Source Number Date Date Rate Use <br /> Middle Fork <br />Cameron Michigan 11899 7/30/1882 4/23/1902 10.00 Irrigation <br />Pass Ditch Creek cfs <br /> Middle Fork <br />Cameron Michigan 17720 7/7/1898 4/23/1902 18.00 Irrigation <br />Pass Ditch Creek cfs <br />Colorado Water Rights Tabularion. <br />Compact and Other Legal Considerations: Cameron Pass Ditch and Michigan Ditch are <br />subject to Nebraska v. Wyoming 325 U.S. 589 (1945) (aka, North Platte River Basin <br />Decree). The North Platte River Basin Decree, which includes 1945 language and <br />modified language from 1953, limits Colorado's use of the North Platte River basin as <br />follows: <br />1. Total irrigation in Jackson County (Water District 47) is limited to 145,000 acres. <br />2. Total storage for irrigation during any one irrigation season is limited to 17,000 <br />acre-feet. <br />3. The amount of total water exported from the North Platte River in Colorado is <br />limited to 60,000 acre-feet per year on average during any 10-year period. <br />Transmountain exports from the North Platte into Water District 3 include <br />Cameron Pass Ditch and Michigan Ditch. <br />Once water is transported from the North Platte River basin to the South Platte River <br />basin it may be used for a variety of uses including, but not limited to, storage, <br />augmentation, municipal, domestic, recreation, and irrigation. Foreign water brought into <br />the Cache la Poudre Basin is 100 percent consumptive. Water can be reused to extinction <br />and is not required to provide return flows. <br />OPERATIONAL INFORMATION <br />Water Supply and Storage Company opens Cameron Pass Ditch each spring, as soon as it can be <br />reached through the snow, typically in late May or early June. Cameron Pass Ditch normally <br />discharges for a four to six week period in June and July. <br />Cameron Pass Ditch does not interact with any other diversions. Water diverted through the <br />ditch is stored in Joe Wright Reservoir and Chambers Lake until needed. <br />The operating strategy for water transported through Cameron Pass Ditch varies depending on <br />numerous variables including the demand for water by stockholders, the amount of water in the <br />basin, and the weather. When stockholders are irrigating, water may be released to meet the <br />CameronPassDitch.doc 6 of 9 <br />