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often required by the USFS as a condition of issuing special use permits. Concerned with the <br />potential loss of yield from needing to make bypass releases from their storage units, these <br />entities worked with USFS to develop the JOP, under which all entities are able to benefit. <br />The operations of Fort Collins, Greeley, and WSSC have changed since winter 1994-1995 <br />under the JOP. The winter operations of these entities were modified to meet the objective of <br />releasing 10 cfs down the Cache la Poudre River to the canyon mouth over the November 1 <br />through March 31 period: <br />- Greeley releases 7 cfs from its Barnes Meadow Reservoir or WSSC's Chambers Lake; <br />- Fort Collins releases 3 cfs from its Joe Wright Reservoir or WSSC's Chambers Lake. <br />The annual yield to Greeley from its Barnes Meadow Reservoir system is generally <br />insufficient to satisfy the winter releases under the JOP (approximately 2,100 ac-ft/yr). Any <br />demand not met from Barnes Meadow is facilitated by releases from WSSC's Chambers <br />Lake Reservoir. Greeley pays WSSC back for WSSC's winter storage contribution to the <br />JOP on a one-to-one basis with transbasin water in Horsetooth Reservoir. <br />Mountain and Plains Reservoir Company Preferred Shares <br />• As part of the 1947 purchase agreement for the five high mountain reservoirs, the City of <br />Greeley agreed to commit the first 500 ac-ft of water stored under the high mountain storage <br />water rights to Mountain and Plains Reservoir Company preferred shareholders. These <br />shareholders divert through various headgates that are predominantly located in the upper <br />Cache la Poudre River basin and receive their preferred share water in the latter months of <br />the summer irrigation season. <br />Consumptive Ilse <br />The consumptive use of all in-house potable uses is estimated at 5% of the in-house diversion <br />based on treatment at a centralized sewage facility. The lawn irrigation return flows (LIRFs) <br />generated through the use of water diverted at the potable treatment plant are not accounted for <br />except for the City's use of changed shares from the GLIC system. LIRFs from the use of the <br />changed GLIC shares are decreed at a flat rate of 35 percent of the monthly amounts used for <br />outside purposes. Per its decrees, these LIRFs can be used only to offset depletions to the river <br />system and can be neither stored nor reused. <br />Water Supply <br />The order of operations for the City of Greeley's water resources generally follow the pattern <br />enumerated below and described in more detail, following: <br />1) Direct Flow Rights, <br />• Pipeline Water Rights <br />• Changed Water Rights at Alternate Points of Diversion <br />2) Transbasin Water (C-BT Project and Windy Gap Project), and <br />3) Storage Releases. <br />The City of Greeley's primary year-round water supply is provided by direct flow rights and <br />storage releases within the Cache la Poudre River basin (approximately 45 percent). The Big <br />Page 18 of 21 <br />