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successful. The Clear Creek Water Quality Settlement has been nick-named the “Cosmic <br />Agreement” due to the wide berth of issues and conflicts resolved between its signatories - the <br />Cities of Westminster, Thornton, Gold en, and the Coors Brewing Company. <br />The main result of the Cosmic Agreement is that Coors and Golden now discharge their <br />wastewater effluent to Clear Creek below the diversion point of the Croke Canal during the <br />winter storage season. This water, previously available to the Cr oke Canal, is stored in West <br />Gravel Lakes and Jim Baker Reservoir unt il it can be exchanged back upstream. <br />During the winter operation season (Croke Season : Nov 1 – Mar 31) when the Croke Canal is <br />diverting under its 1902 priority, Co ors and Golden effluent is di scharged below the Croke Canal <br />and stored in West Gravel La kes and Jim Baker Reservoir. C oors diverts out-of-priority as <br />described in its Augmentation Plan, limited to a weekly average of 11 cfs and a volumetric limit <br />of 2,836 ac-ft in any Croke Season. Coors’ out-of- priority diversions are accounted for, and <br />adjusted for ditch losses and eva poration that would have occurre d had the water been diverted <br />to Standley. <br />During the irrigation season (Non-Cr oke Season: Apr 1 – Oct 31), the stored effluent equal to <br />Coors and Golden's out-of-priority obligation is exchanged upstream fo r distribution to FRICO <br />share holders. Coors’ stored effl uent generated from its reusable water is exchanged upstream to <br />Coors’ facilities. <br />The storage and exchange decrees entered in to as a result of the Cosmic Agreement include <br />Cases No. 88CW268, 88CW269, 88CW270, 88CW271, and 88CW272. The conditional water <br />exchange rights were originally decreed in Case No. 88CW268 on July 20, 1990, with common <br />appropriation dates of August 26, 1985. Case 04CW078 is the diligence case for 88CW268. <br />The bypassed effluent is typically stored in the West Gravel Lakes (Structure ID 0703699, about <br />2,800 ac-ft storage capacity) via th e Lower Clear Creek Ditch (S tructure ID 0700547). Once the <br />effluent is exchanged up to Standley Lake, it is divided among FRIC O and the Cities of <br />Westminster, Thornton, and Northglenn by the percentages determined under the Four-Way <br />Agreement (see table of Standley Lake reservoi r accounts). The effluent stored in the West <br />Gravel Lakes can be exchanged up to Standley Lake via any of the feeder ditches, which <br />typically occurs alongside the ot her diversions to storage by th e Standley Lake share holders. <br />City of Northglenn/FRICO Exchange <br />The City of Northglenn/FRICO Exchange Agreement, dated September 2, 1976, describes the <br />terms under which FRICO exchanges its water stor ed in Standley Lake with the City of <br />Northglenn for municipal return fl ow and other water the City pa ys back to FRICO. Northglenn <br />has the right to the first use of water stored under the Standley Lake FRICO account. Northglenn <br />uses the Standley Lake FRICO water for its municipal water supply. In exchange, Northglenn <br />returns an equal amount of treated effluent plus a 10 percent bonus amount to FRICO through <br />the Bull Canal System, for use by FRICO share hol ders downstream of Northglenn’s wastewater <br />treatment facility. While the exchange is in e ffect, Northglenn must also provide FRICO storage <br />space and water in Bull Canal Reservoir to help control deliveries down the Bull Canal system. <br />20 of 24 <br />