Final Draft ALP Marketing Supply and Demand Study

Committee shall cooperate with Project participants to meet those demands
whenever feasible and practical.
4.02 Whenever feasible and practical, Project participants shall take delivery of their
portion of the Project water supply by direct ALP diversions ( "River Water')
without putting it in storage.
4.03 The Project shall be operated to maintain a Joint Storage Pool for the benefit of all
Project participants. The Project water supply in the Joint Storage Pool shall be
allocated among Project participants whose water supplies will not be satisfied
from River Water.
4.04 Unless and until the City of Durango agrees to take its Project water in accordance
with the other provisions of this document, 2,133 acre feet of the active storage
capacity of the Reservoir shall be operated and accounted as the Durango Pool,
and the remainder of the active storage capacity shal I be operated and accounted
as the Joint Storage Pool. The Durango Pool, and all water stored therein, will be
available only for use by the City of Durango to supplement direct diversions
available to fulfill the City of Durango's annual Project water supply. Water
diverted into the Reservoir to fill or refill Project storage capacity will be allocated
to the City of Durango pro rata to the share the Durango Pool represents of total
active Project storage capacity; that is, of every acre foot of water diverted into
storage, 2,133/ 95,030 acre feet will be allocated and accounted to the Durango
Pool until Durango's 2,133- acre -foot cap is met, and the balance to the Joint
Storage Pool. Evaporation and seepage from Ridges Basin Reservoir will be
allocated to the Durango Pool pro rata to the share the Durango Pool represents of
the total active Project storage capacity.
4.05 A Project participant's unused allocations of Project water supply in the Joint
Storage Pool shall not be carried over in the month -to -month accounting.
4.06 Water otherwise available for diversion by the Project and passed by the Durango
Pumping Plant to meet federal environmental requirements for ALP shall be
available for direct diversion by Project participants downstream of the Durango
[lumping Plant, provided that such water is identified and accounted for as Project
water in accordance with Paragraphs 2 and 10.
4.07 A Project participant may elect to take delivery of less than its full Statutory
Water Allocation in any year without losing the right to delivery of its full
entitlement in future years. A Project participant's election to not take full
delivery of its Statutory Water Allocation shall not constitute evidence of an
intention to abandon the water right.
4.08 A Project participant may not take delivery of more than its Statutory Water
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