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Executiue Summar~ <br />Table ES-2. Summary of Net Absolute ~Vater Rights <br />(including both the Total Number and Energy Portion of the Total, in parentheses). <br /> <br /> <br />Water District Number of Total <br />Absolute Direct <br />Flow Rights Total Absolute <br />Direct Flow Rate <br />(cfs) Number of Absolute <br />Storage <br />Water Rights Total Absolute <br />Storage Volume <br />(acre-feet) <br />Division 5, District 39 1,465 (157) 1,765 (173) 91(43) 35,700 (13,077) <br />Division 5, District 45 1,125 (61) 1,618 (103) 123 (31) 2,381(717) <br />Division 5, District 70 454 (76) 461(12) 10 (7) 49 (5) <br />Division 5, District 72 1,555 (131) 8,321(2,911) 481(99) 78,182 (49,854) <br />Division 6, District 43 2,734 (151) 4,423 (1,196) 336 (42) 30,043 (17,994) <br /> <br />Totals 7,333 (576) <br />~g°/a of the Total <br />are Energy Related 16,588 (4,395) <br />~26% of the Total <br />are Energy Related 1,041(222) <br />~21°/a of the Total <br />are Energy Related 146,355 (81,646) <br />~56°/a of the Total <br />are Energy Related <br />Notes: <br />~ = appro~mately <br />% = percent <br />cfs = cubic feet per second <br />Follow-on phases of this study (i.e., Phase 2) will require the review and compilation of the <br />conditional water rights for the Colorado, Yampa, and White Rivers that can be applied toward <br />energy development. Through an exhaustive research of the conditional water rights within <br />these river systems, including interviews with water administration officials, it is anticipated the <br />majority of the conditional water rights to support energy development will come from the <br />Colorado and White River Basins. These conditional water rights, if developed, have the <br />potential to impact existing water rights in these river basins because their respective diversion or <br />storage water rights will be administered in priority of their adjudication date. This date reflects <br />the first recognizable action that formed the intent of the appropriator to secure a water right. <br />This administrative priority date for a conditional water right is earlier or "senior" to the time <br />when water is first applied to bene~cial use or when the conditional water right is perfected to <br />absolute status through judicial confirmation. The potential impact to eXisting water rights <br />would occur to those absolute water rights that were adjudicated afte~ the subject conditional <br />water rights were awarded their priority date in a preceding court decree. It is plausible that, <br />should a sufficient number of conditional water rights perfect their decrees to absolute status <br />through diversionlstorage to beneficial use, the historic river call regime on individual tributary <br />streams and the Colorado River system may be eXtended in duration and the historic <br />administrative priority may be shifted to require curtailment of water rights that previously were <br />~~ ES-12 <br />