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1 <br />1 <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br />1 <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />t <br />1 <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br />CHAPTER V <br />STORAGE ALTERNATIVES <br />Existing Storage Reservoirs <br />Ability to Transfer Stored Water <br />The ability to move the delivery point of stored water is similar to flow-type water rights. It <br />is clear that the consumptive use portion of a right can be moved to a new point of diversion, <br />however, the ability to move the entire stored amount is not as clear. The primary <br />consideration is who is injured. Normally when stored water is released from a reservoir it <br />is released for a selected use. That use usually does not consume all of the water released. <br />For irrigation uses, 50 percent CU might be considered normal. That is for every 100 AF <br />released from a reservoir for irrigation, 50 AF is consumed by the plants and evaporation, <br />and 50 AF return a stream (commonly called return flows). Other water users on that stream <br />have historically diverted the portion that was returned to the stream. If an attempt was <br />made to deliver the historical amount of water released from the reservoir to the Reach, the <br />water users would not have the ability to use the return flows. It is possible that this would <br />be considered. an injury, and consequently, it may be possible to only move the historic CU <br />to the Reach. <br />The amount of water that could be delivered to a different location would be determined on a <br />case-by-case basis. If CU is the basis for moving the point of delivery, then reservoirs <br />which serve areas with low consumption would not be favorable. <br />River administration should not prove to be an obstacle since releases from Ruedi Reservoir <br />have previously been used to enhance flows in the Reach. <br />Existing Upstream Storage <br />Selection Process <br />The 1988 State of Colorado tabulation of storage water rights in Division 5 was sorted to <br />eliminate any reservoir which met one of the following conditions: <br />1) if the decree was conditional, <br />2) if the adjudication type for the decree was "transferred from", <br />3) if the adjudication type was an alternative point, <br />4) if the decree type was abandoned, or <br />5) if the reservoir was downstream from the beginning of the Reach. <br />33 <br />