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Table 1 <br />Direct Flow Water Rights <br />Structure Source Structure Appropriation Adjudication Decreed <br /> <br />Name <br />ID <br />Date <br />Date <br />Rate Use <br />Laramie Big <br />300.00 <br />Irrigation <br />River Laramie 0304600 8/25/1902 2/20/19146 cfs All <br />Tunnel River <br /> Irrigation <br /> Municipal <br /> Commercial <br />McIntyre McIntyre <br />4800581 <br />8/25/1902 <br />2/20/1914 <br />40 <br />0 cfs Industrial <br />Ditch Creek . Recreation <br /> Fish <br /> Fire <br /> Au mentation <br />Rawah Rawah Irrigation <br />Ditch Creek 4800582 8/25/1902 2/20/1914 225.0 cfs All <br />Rawah <br />B <br />Lower La <br />ramie 4800500 8/25/1902 2/20/1914 275 <br />0 cfs Irrigation <br />Supply River . All <br />Ditch <br />Associated Storage: Laramie Poudre Tunnel is part of the Laramie River System which <br />includes numerous reservoirs owned by the Tunnel Water Company. <br />Compact and Other Legal Considerations: Laramie Poudre Tunnel is one of five <br />transmountain diversion structures included in the Laramie River Compact between <br />Colorado and Wyoming. The 1957 Substitute Decree in Wyoming v. Colorado [353 U.S. <br />953 (1957)], known as the Laramie River Decree or Laramie River Compact, permits <br />Colorado to divert 49,375 acre-feet per year from the Laramie River basin as follows: <br />1. 19,875 acre-feet per year maybe diverted by Colorado for transmountain users. <br />Transmountain users include Water Supply and Storage Company (Laramie <br />Poudre Tunnel Diversion and Skyline Ditch), The Tunnel Water Company <br />(Laramie Poudre Tunnel Diversion), The Divide Canal and Reservoir Company <br />(Deadman Ditch), and the City of Greeley (Bob Creek Ditch and Columbine <br />Ditch). Each of these diversions export water from the Laramie River basin into <br />Water District 3. <br />2. 29,500 acre-feet per year maybe diverted by Colorado irrigators (called the <br />"meadow users") for use within the basin (Water District 48), of which not more <br />than 1,800 acre-feet can be diverted after July 31st of each year. <br />3. Any portion of the 19,875 acre-feet per year not diverted by Colorado for use <br />outside the basin can be added to the 29,500 acre-feet per year permitted for use <br />within the basin. <br />4. All waters diverted by Colorado for use within the basin are restricted to irrigation <br />use on the 4,845 acres designated by the court at the time of the decree. <br />LaramiePoudreTunnel.doc 7 of 10 <br />