Prehearing Statement of City of Colorado Springs

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y _?.. -- -- -- ------ -?-- _._ ......... ..... .._. -- ---- ----------.. .. -- -- - --._ _ . . - ------..-._ . _. -, MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT REGARDING . _ " COLORADO SPRIlNGS SUBSTITUTION OPERATIONS . . ' . . P.age 2 . ' . .. . . . Mountain Reservoir. CSU operates the CSU Blue River System subject to separate decrees generally referred to as CSU's 1929 Rights and CSU's 1948 Blue River Decree rights, some of which remain .- ? conditional rigtits at the date of ttus Agreement. ' ' . . . : •? C.' ' DWB owns aud operates the Roberts TZnnel and I?illon Reservoir, both locatecl on the Blue River aud its triliutaries, upstream of Green Mountain Reservoir: ? DWB's Blue'River cliversions are ' siibject to the terms of the Blue River Decrees. . D. Reclanation's right to fill Green Mountain Reservoir is senior in adminishative priority to : CSU's 1948 Blue River Decree rights and DWB's Roberts Tunnel and Dillon Reservoir. . .. . . . . . .??. -: _ . E. DWB is a parly to two separate agreements botti dateii December-30, 1991 (the "DWB , •? Substifution Agreements"), and the joint substitution deczee dated March 5, 1996, iu U.S. District Court, District of Colorado C.A. 2782; 5016and .5017 and in Case I+To. 91CW252, Water Division 5"(the "DWB Substitution Decree'). 'TYie DWB Substitution A&eements and DWB Substitution . ? Deeree set forth procedures to allow DWB to provide sources* of wafer in substituhon for:water ' diverted by DWB from the Blue River during years in which Reclamation determines that Green Mountain Reservoir did not filI as described in the Blue River Decrees. . . F. CSU desires to establish procedures fo enable it to provicle souices of water in substitution ? for water diverted by CSU from the Blue River during years in which Reclamation determines that . _.. ..-? ----?-- ?--?---- _.._._...--- ---- -- . s:Uegallwk&waterlCiean Final (St3 Subshturion Agreement 7