9356

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9356
• Author: Wigington, R.
• Title: Water Right Marketing Strategies to Protect Instream Flows in Colorado.
• USFW Year: 1990.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

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moving the same amount water over a much longer time, the
Conservancy agreed to lease and not take delivery the next
irrigation season on an amount of shares in the Company that
would be equivalent to the increased transit loss over the longer
evacuation period. The Company also agreed to turn down the
releases from Halligan Reservoir more gradually at the end of the
irrigation season so that fish would not be stranded in the
Canyon by a rapid drop in flows.
After Halligan Reservoir was drawn down completely in the
late fall, the Company next agreed to bypass a small survival
flow until irrigation deliveries started up again next spring,
and to start up those deliveries more gradually so as not to
flush out any brown trout fry that may have been spawned in the
fall. In consideration for this bypass, the Conservancy leased
an equivalent number of shares from the Eastman Kodak Company and
agreed not to take delivery on those shares in the next
irrigation season. Eastman Kodak entered this lease without any
consideration from The Nature Conservancy because the City of
Greeley was willing to give Kodak some credit against Kodak's raw
water obligations with Greeley. Greeley allowed this credit
mindful that the bypassed water could be recaptured below Phantom
Canyon at Greeley's Seamen Reservoir. With Kodak and Greeley, it
was a four way agreement.
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