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downstream of the in channel diversion reach So by agreeing not #o <br />call the recreational water right when the Gunnison Tunnel is calling <br />is offthe map. You wantto try this ma.p? <br />Man [unintelligible] Kathleen, would you conect - I reversed Crystal <br />Dam amd Reservoir and [uninteUigible] maybe you can point that <br />out: . Ka.thleen C.irry: This is the azea that's tnbutazy to Crystal Reservoir right there and <br />here's Morrow Point [sp]. This is rt. The pink is tn`butary to Morrow <br />Point and the yellow is the Upper Guniison Distriet. Ev?g is <br />tnbutary to Blue Mesa Reservoir. And the Gunnison'I'unnel diverts <br />just below Ciystal, which ends right here on the ms.p. Maybe we can <br />s3ww it on this one. They've got tt zed dot here. Gunnison Tutmel <br />diversion here. And here's the Black Canyon. Hera's Grgstal <br />Reservoir and Morrow Paint amd Blue 1Vlesa.. Gynthia Covell: Thank you. I really azn going ta let ttese wifiaesses festify now, bnt I <br />did want to g'rve everybody kind of an overview in fi.hde hope that we <br />can-str?amlia? -ft preseatatioa aad get those breaks in and have <br />hinch and all thw kinds oftUings that the Board would l?ce'to do in <br />addition tr? Iisten to tbis presenta#ion <br />But I 6ink the point that's important to note is that if the recz'eational <br />wa.ter right is not called when the Grunnison Tumel is calling; a lot <br />- of expected impact of the recreational water right on upsxreom users will be nakigated beca.use those ttpsfream usess would be able to <br />. purchase Blue Niesa water and excbauge it through the reach, . . <br />theretay me.eting the Gunnison Twmel c4 and -aot being called by a ...- , _ . . . _.. ..._ <br />call-within the call from the recreational waW right. <br />AnY remahft imPacts thgLt the water right ma.y pose can be also <br />addressed by the District, if and when those bccur. The District can, <br />aud has in the past, deveioped water opeMing Policies and ma.y also <br />facfiitate augmentation prajects. <br />Now it's aLsp importarrt to note that this recreational water right is. <br />not the only qpstream water right above Blue Mesa that controls <br />developmeirt and projects in thevpper basin. The East and Ohio <br />Rivers, for example, are already controlled by int.ernal calls that are <br />senior to this recreational water right. And users on thase branches <br />have to have mugmenta?ion plans aheady. - So they'd be abie to <br />respond to a call by the reereational ,ovvatter right, if necessary. <br />So in sum, I'd just hke to say that this is a project thai the C'ruanison <br />community needs, rt wants and it thinks will be an important aznenity <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />September 10, 2002 Hearing Transcript <br />: ' Page 13 .