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Water Supply Reserve Account -Grant Application Form <br />Form Revised October 2006 <br />? Water Availability and Sustainability -this information is needed to assess the viability and effectiveness <br />of the water project or activity. Please provide a description of each water supply source to be utilized <br />for, or the water body to be affected by, the water activity. For water supply sources being utilized, <br />describe its location, yield, extent of development, and water right status. For water bodies being <br />affected, describe its location, extent of development, and the expected effect of the water activity on the <br />water body, in either case, the analysis should take into consideration a reasonable range of hydrologic <br />variation. Attach additional sheets as needed. <br />Effectiveness: The proposed off-channel reservoir sites are located at an advantageous <br />location. Water released from the reservoirs can supply domestic, augmentation, irrigation, and <br />instream flow demands in all critical segments of the Crystal River. <br />Water Sources: The reservoirs would be filled in-priority with water from either the Crystal <br />River or Thompson Creek, a tributary to the Crystal River. Water is physically and legally <br />available to fill the reservoirs during the snowmelt runoff period in all years, including drought <br />years. <br />Water Rights: Conditional water rights previously decreed to West Divide and to the Colorado <br />River District are sufficient to fill the proposed reservoirs in all years (including a 2002 type <br />drought year) with water from either Thompson Creek or the Crystal River. <br />Affected Water Bodies: Releases from the reservoirs will enhance the flow of the Crystal River <br />during low flow <br />residential users, <br />river. <br />periods. The releases will offset out-of priority diversions by existing <br />increase irrigation supplies, and potentially improve aquatic habitat of the <br />8