9527

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9527
• Author: Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District.
• Title: The Windy Gap Project.
• USFW Year: no dat
• USFW - Doc Type: Loveland, CO.
• Copyright Material: NO

AGREEMENTS
Settlement
Agreement
Following the Supreme
Court decision to
uphold the legality of
the Carriage Contract,
the Subdistrict began
negotiating with the
- . CRWCD and
other
Western
Slope inter-
ests to
resolve con-
flicts and
enable Windy
Gap Project
construction
to begin.
On April 30,
1980, a Settlement
Agreement was reached
among the Subdistrict,
CRWCD, Northwest
Colorado Council of
Governments, Grand
County, Middle Park
Water Conservancy
District (MPWCD), Three
Lakes Water and
Sanitation District, and
numerous area ranchers.
The Agreement required
the Subdistrict to pro-
vide up to $15 million
for the study and con-
struction of the Azure
Reservoir Project on the
Colorado River below
Kremmling in exchange
for the CRWCD support-
ing the Windy Gap
Project.
Separate agreements
were reached with the
other interests for with-
drawal of their objec-
tions. As a result of
these settlements,
MPWCD receives a
3,000-acre-feet allot-
ment of water annually
if divertable by the
Windy Gap Project; Hot
Sulphur Springs was
given $420,000 to
upgrade its water and
wastewater treatment
facilities; and Grand
County received
$25,000 to conduct
salinity studies on the
Colorado River.
The Subdistrict spent
more than $500,000
constructing improved
water diversion facilities
and pumps below the
Windy Gap Reservoir so
that ranchers with water
rights senior to the
Windy Gap Project
would not be adversely
affected by the Project.
8 WINDY GAP PROJECT
The Colorado River below
Windy Gap Reservoir sup-
ports a blue-ribbon fishery