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The Pueblo Chieftain Online I Tuesday Page 2 of 4 <br />Pueblo Zoo <br />, <br />rs' a if lwwr `','"` <br />Alan Hamel, executive director of the water <br />FOCUS ON YOUTH: <br />Headbone Zone <br />works, said Monday that "because of the <br />�1��'l# <br />Images <br />complexity of Aurora's filing and because of the <br />it) fi)I -I Ilion <br />Classroom Chieftain <br />School District 60 <br />many objectors in the case, I would anticipate <br />School District 70 <br />Pueblo Library District <br />that we recommend to our board that we o <br />g <br />1 , <br />ahead and file a statement of opposition and <br />continue our discussions with Aurora." <br />May 31 is the deadline for filing statements of I"WPWW <br />opposition. <br />Hamel said continued discussions will be aimed <br />at "understanding their filings and how they <br />would affect the board's rights, and under what <br />terms we could enter into an agreement to ` <br />protect our rights through stipulation - something <br />that would become part of the decrees." <br />Hamel said Aurora has proposed numerous <br />alternate points of diversion - some of them <br />upstream from Pueblo's diversion sites, and <br />points where return flow is measured for <br />Pueblo's exchange decrees. <br />Those decrees allow the water works to <br />exchange return flows from Comanche Power <br />plant, sewage - treatment operations and <br />residential irrigation for equal amounts of water <br />upstream. <br />"One of their filings would move rights above our <br />intakes and into the middle of those exchanges, <br />and the other would move water from Pueblo <br />Reservoir to Turquoise or Twin Lakes," Hamel <br />said. "We have some concerns with those <br />proposals." <br />If Aurora wins an exchange decree, the city <br />wouldn't be able to rely on an existing contract <br />with the Pueblo water board to get all of its <br />Rocky Ford Ditch water upstream from Otero <br />County to Aurora. <br />The entities have a 15 -year contract that allows <br />Aurora to exchange water it has stored in Lake <br />Pueblo for transmountain water owned by <br />Pueblo and stored at Clear Creek Reservoir, <br />Twin Lakes or Turquoise Lake. <br />http: / /www.chieflain.com/tuesday /news /display.php3 ?article =l 04/04/2000 <br />