Combined Operations Secretary and Offset Accounting Report (Summary and Tables) Compact Year 2008

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December 1, 2008 Report of the Colorado State Engineer ' Offset Account Operations November 1, 2007 to October 31, 2008 1 An Offset Account in John Martin Reservoir was authorized by the Resolution Concerning an Offset Account in John Martin Reservoir for Colorado Pumping dated March 17, 1997 ' ( "Resolution ") and by the Resolution Concerning an Offset Account in John Martin Reservoir for Colorado Pumping as Amended March 30, 1998 ( "Amended Resolution "). ' This report summarizes the operations conducted using the Offset Account for the period November 1, 2007 through October 31, 2008 and has been prepared pursuant to paragraph 11 of the Amended Resolution. ' At 0000 hours, November 1, 2007 the Offset Account contained 3165.31 acre -feet. From November 1, 2007 through October 31, 2008 there were deliveries to the Offset Account as ' summarized below. There was one release from the Offset Account for delivery to Kansas during this period. The Lower Arkansas Water Management Association pre - delivered fully consumable water and made a final transfer on March 31, 2008, to satisfy the 500 acre -feet Storage Charge ' prerequisite for using the account for another year. The correspondence describing this delivery is included in Section 3. In Section 1, a monthly summary of the contents of the Offset Account is provided in Table 1. A summary of the subaccounts of the Offset Account is provided in Tables A through B.2. The ' outline preceding the tables in Section 1 provides an explanation of the purpose of each subaccount. Section 2 of this report contains the daily accounting records, by month, for all subaccounts in the Offset Account. From November 1, 2007 through October 31, 2008, there were eleven deliveries of water to the Offset Account, including the delivery to complete the 500 acre -feet of fully consumable water to satisfy the Storage Charge. These deliveries are summarized in the following table. Source Delivery End Date Amount to Offset Account ac -ft Net Consumable Water ac -ft Net Return Flow Water ac -ft LAWMA Article II March 31, 2008 94.36 58.28 36.08 LAWMA Article II Aril 1, 2008 202.30 143.78 58.52 LAWMA Article II Aril 14, 2008 91.99 62.66 29.33 LAWMA Article II Aril 21, 2008 1347.46 917.87 429.59 LAWMA Colorado Springs CU June 22, 2008 1983.00 1983.00 0.00 LAWMA Pueblo West/Aurora CU July 22, 2008 5099.75 5099.75 0.00 LAWMA Colorado Springs CU) Au ust 14, 2008 1963.35 1963.35 0.00 LAWMA Article II Au ust 26, 2008 663.63 452.05 211.58 LAWMA Article II October 17, 2008 233.24 158.88 74.36 LAWMA (Highland Canal Shares October 31, 2008 3840.27 3840.27 0.00 LAWMA Keesee Ditch Shares October 31, 2008 1 3337.17 1 3337.17 0.00 TOTALS 1 18856.52 1 18017.06 839.46