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• Board Meeting Date: 7/21/2010
• Description: Stream & Lake Protection Section - Case Nos. 6-07CW061 and 6-07CW072: Applications of Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

9. Changes of Water Rights: This Decree changes a portion of the Pleasant Valley
Reservoir right to allow for storage at Morrison Creek Reservoir and subsequent delivery to
Stagecoach Reservoir and provides for an alternate point of diversion for the Pleasant Valley
Feeder Canal right at Morrison Creek Reservoir. Stagecoach Reservoir is described above in
paragraph 8.A(3)(c). Morrison Creek Reservoir is more specifically described as follows:
A. Location: The centerline of the proposed Morrison Creek Reservoir dam
intersects Morrison Creek at a location within the SEI/4, NEI/4, Section 10, Township 3
North, Range 84 West of the 6"' P.M. at a point located 244 feet west of the east section
line and 1,539 feet south of the north section line of said Section 10.
B. Amount: The Application claimed a total annual storage by fill and refill of 10,620
AF. Of this amount, 4,965 AF will be accounted for under the first fill, 4,965 will be
accounted for under the second fill, and an additional estimated 690 AF will be lost to
evaporation. Under this practice, the Morrison Creek Reservoir will be allowed annually
to store water available to the Pleasant Valley Project Rights with deliveries then made to
Stagecoach Reservoir, described below, and account for evaporative loss from Morrison
Creek Reservoir.
C. Source: The Morrison Creek Reservoir is an on-channel reservoir to be located on
Morrison Creek.
D. Surface Area. 330.45 acres.
E. Height ofDam: 47 feet
F. Length: 336 feet
G. Capacity: 4,965 AF
(1) Active Capacity: 4,900 AF
(2) Dead Storage: 65 AF
10, Uses of Water.
A. Water diverted and stored in the Morrison Creek Reservoir under the Pleasant
Valley Project Rights may be released from the Morrison Creek Reservoir for the decreed
uses identified in paragraph 8 above within the District's service area, and/or may be
subsequently delivered to Stagecoach Reservoir and any future enlargement of said
Reservoir for subsequent use within the District's service area.
CASE NO. 07CW61
FINDINGS ot; FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW,
AND JUDGMENT AND DECREE
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