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1 3, WATER, <br />Water Rights, No new water rights will be required for the proposed <br />project. The company now owns direct flow decrees totaling 393 03 cubic <br />feet per second and reservoir storage decrees totaling 74, 855 acre feet, <br />I The company anticipates transferring existing established storage <br />rights to the proposed Park Creek Reservoir, from reservoirs which presently <br />have lost or unusable decrees, <br />Present Supply. The principal sources of supply are the Cache la <br />Poudre, N Fork Cache la Poudre and the B T homson Rivers, plus ground <br />' water from wells within the area. From these sources, except ground water, <br />water is made available to the stockholder from four sources. During the period <br />1961 through 1964, an average of 87,...1 66 acre feet of water was available, of <br />which 510 4% was from "Total Storage ", 10. 7% from "Direct Flow ", 0. 2% from <br />"Mountain System" and 370 77o from "Horsetooth Reservoir!', Of this available <br />water, the average amount delivered to the stockholders for the same period was <br />49,750 acre feet. <br />There is also an excess or surplus of unappropriated water that passes <br />down the Cache la Poudre River unused. As determined by W. G. Wilkinson, <br />Water Commissioner for District No; 3, this excess has amounted to an average <br />of 24, 500 acre feet per year for the period 1947 through 1960. <br />The estimated ground water yield from wells in the area is 12, 000 <br />acre feet per year, <br />Water Requirements, The annual farm delivery requirement is <br />2e 17 acre feet of water per acre of land per growing season, <br />S -3 <br />