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structures in the headwaters of the Eagle River, a tributary of the Colorado River. Water <br />may be stored in Homestake Reservoir prior to being conveyed by the Homestake Tunnel <br />to Lake Fork Creek, upstream of Turquoise Reservoir in the Arkansas River Basin. <br />Water may be stored in Turquoise Reservoir (Aurora has a 15,000 of storage account for <br />Homestake Project in Turquoise) prior to that water being transported (typically through <br />the Mt. Elbert Conduit) to Twin Lakes Reservoir. Project water in Twin is then delivered <br />into the Homestake Pipeline. Associated decree: Case No. 1193, Eagle County District <br />Court. <br />Twin Lakes S.. s~ Aurora owns 5 percent of the Twin Lakes System. This system was <br />constructed in the 1930s with facilities to transport water from the Roaring Fork River <br />(tributary to the Colorado River) through Independence Pass Transmountain Diversion <br />system (owned and operated by the Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Company) to the <br />Arkansas River Basin. The system was originally constructed as an irrigation water <br />supply for land below Pueblo Reservoir in the Arkansas River Basin. The Twin Lakes <br />Reservoir and Canal Company also holds water rights for native water originating in the <br />Arkansas River Basin. Associated decree: Case No. W-1903, Water Division 5. <br />Busk- Ivanhoe S.. s~ Aurora and the Pueblo Board of Water Works each own 50 percent of <br />the Busk-Ivanhoe System. This system diverts water from the upper reaches of Ivanhoe <br />Creek, a tributary to the Fryingpan River and the Colorado River. A tunnel (originally a <br />railroad tunnel) conveys water from the Colorado River Basin to the Arkansas River <br />Basin above Turquoise Reservoir. Associated decrees: Case Nos. 2621, 3082 and 4033, <br />Garfield County District Court. <br />Rocky Ford Ditch S.. s~ Aurora has transferred water rights formerly associated with <br />irrigation in the vicinity of the Town of Rocky Ford to municipal use. Approximately <br />58% of the water rights were changed in 1986 and another 36% (for a total of 94%) of the <br />water rights were changed in 2003/2004. The consumptive use portion of these rights is <br />diverted upstream at Pueblo Reservoir for subsequent exchange to reservoirs even further <br />upstream in the Upper Arkansas River (i.e. Twin Lakes, Turquoise). Associated decrees <br />include: Case No. 83CW018 (first change), Case No. 99CW169 (second change), Case <br />No. 87CW063 (first exchange), and Case No. 99CW170 (second exchange pending), <br />Water Division 2. <br />Colorado Canal S.. s~ In the 1980s, Aurora purchased and changed agricultural water rights <br />associated with the mutual companies operating the Colorado Canal, Lake Henry, and <br />Lake Meredith. Historically this water irrigated crops in the vicinity of La Junta. <br />Aurora's consumptive use interest in these water rights will be diverted by exchange to <br />Pueblo Reservoir or reservoirs in the upper Arkansas River Basin (i.e. Twin Lakes, <br />Turquoise). Associated decrees, Case Nos. 84-CW62, 84CW63, and 84 CW64, Water <br />Division 2. <br />Burroughs Ranch: In the mid 1980s, Aurora transferred the consumptive use associated with <br />agricultural water rights used on a ranch near Leadville, Colorado, in the Upper Arkansas <br />River Basin. Associated decrees: Case Nos. W-4799 and 82CW 182, Water Division 2. <br />7of10 <br />