Subordination of the Aspinall Unit Water Rights: 2000 Annual Report

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FROM : UGRWCD FAX NO. : 970 641 7606 Aug. 21 2002 03:52PM P4 As noted-in paragraph G. submittal of the initl8l report was required by June 1, 2001_ The Districts requested, and recealv@d from the United States, an extension of the reporting deadline, from June 1, 2001 to October 1, 2001. This extension was required as the result of problems in obtaining data for the required perioD of record. The following study prevides the basis for this initial report in semsfaction of the requirements of Paragraph 8 of the Subordination Agreement. This report is divided into four sections: Section 1.0 Is the introduction, Section 2.0 of this report describes the water rights and structures that benefit from the Subordination Agreement, Section 3.0 describes the diversions and dvplctions associatod with these water rights; and Section 4,0 summarizes the results of the study, 2.0 WATER RIGHTS AND STRUCTURES The purpose of this section is to quantify all of the water rights that benefit from the Subordination Agreement_ dater rights for minimum instream flow rights, rights for minimum natural lake levels, and any conditional water rights that were not exercised In 2000 were excluded. The water rights in the area of interest were dOt9rmined from the water rights tabulation maintained by the Colorado Divislon of Waiter Resources (DWR). The tabulation was taken from the Colorado Declslon Support System (COSS) website developed by the MR, The tabulation report summarizing the net absdute amount associated with each water right w9ss utilized for the purposes of this report. Tho not arnount In tho net water right at a given structure aftar accounting for transfers between structures and any portion of a water right that was abandoned_ All water rights senior to the, Aspinall Unit water rights were removed from this list (rights senior to administration nornlow of 39398.00000 which ig a priority date of November 13, 1957). The list was then sorted for water rights within the study area, ,Which quallfy for the subordination of Aspinall Unit water rights under the Subordination Agreement. Next, the Acpirsall Unit water rights and any water rights for minimum instream flow or rights for minimum natural lake level* were eliminated frorn the list, rinally, the conditional water rights that eould benefit from the Subordination Agreement, but were not exercised in 2000, were excluded from the list. Appendix A is a listing of the 2,161 water rights which qualify for subordination of A;Plnali Unit water rights under the Subordination Agreement, if there is more than one water right associated with a given stnacture, than a separate row is shown for each water right. Figure Z presents the location of the water rights shown in Appendix A. 2 .7 r, -.4