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transfers," generally including share ownership in the upper ditches) and in the late-1980s (the <br />"later transfers," generally including share ownership in the upper and lower ditches). The City <br />included exchanges from many of the ditches and storage units under the ditches up to the City's <br />upper basin reservoirs as part of the later transfers in order to enhance the utility of these sources <br />in potential, future water rights dedications to the City. The City's ownership in the changed <br />water rights have been used during the last three decades for non-potable uses in the City and for <br />potable uses by exchange, either directly or after initially being stored. <br />The City's adjudicated ownership in direct flow, storage, and exchange water rights are <br />summarized in Table 3 through Table 6. <br />Direct Flow Rights /Historic Ilse Credits <br />• St. Vrain Creek direct flow rights from Civil Action Numbers 4853, 6673, and 8831 are <br />summarized in Table 3. <br />Table 3 <br />Direct Flow Rights <br />Ditch Name Approp. Date Adjud. Date Admin. No. Decreed Rate (cfs) Percent <br />Total City Ownership <br />North Pipeline 5/1/1865 6/2/1882 5600.0 53.37 2.65* 4.97 <br /> 5/31/1865 6/2/1882 5630.0 32.35 1.65** 5.10 <br /> 6/2/1909 6/1/1926 21702.0 28.5 28.5*** 100.0 <br /> TOTAL 32.80 <br />South Pipeline 3/1/1882 3/13/1907 11748.0 0.67 0.67 100.0 <br /> 5/15/1901 3/13/1907 18762.0 2.33 2.33 100.0 <br /> TOTAL 3.00 <br />Source: Colorado Water Rights Tabulation <br />Notes: * Transferred from Longmont Supply Ditch <br />** Transferred from St. Vrain Palmerton Ditch <br />*** Original water right for hydropower generation, including storage, commercial and irrigation uses <br />Percent ownership based on City pro-rata /Total decreed rate <br />The direct flow rights summarized in Table 3 include the original water rights for the two <br />Pipelines and the water rights transferred to the North Pipeline. The total amounts listed in Table <br />3 for the transferred water rights are the total rates decreed for the original priorities adjudicated <br />to the irrigation ditches that were the source of the transferred rights. <br />The City's water rights from the early transfers and the later transfers are summarized in Table 4, <br />listed in upstream to downstream order. The ditches are often referred to as the `upper ditches' <br />above the Zweck & Turner Ditch and as the `lower ditches' below the Oligarchy Ditch. <br />• From Case Numbers 81CW355, 81CW356, 81CW357, 81CW360, 81CW361, 81CW362, <br />87CW212, 87CW213, 87C214, 87CW215, 87CW216, 87CW218, 87CW219, 87CW220, <br />87CW221, 87CW222, 87CW231, and 87CW253. <br />City of Longmont Operating Memorandum.doc Page 11 of 21 March 2, 2005 <br />