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<br /> <br />Page | 6 <br /> <br /> <br />Georgetown Lake Dam Outlet Modification Project – Georgetown Colorado <br />In recent years, the 1866 right has been called out from mid-summer through the end of <br />October. In order to continue to divert notwithstanding the call, the Town must make up the <br />depletions that are caused to Clear Creek so that senior downstream water rights are not <br />injured. The Town’s pending augmentation plans are intended to provide such augmentation. <br />Case No. 98CW439 seeking to change the Town’s 1 ½ shares of the Farmers High Line Canal & <br />Reservoir Company to municipal and augmentation uses. Case No. 08CW145 seeks to use as <br />additional augmentation supplies water stored in Georgetown Lake under pending junior <br />storage applications (Case Nos,. 99CW12 and 07CW324) and transmountain water delivered <br />through the Vidler Tunnel. Thus the Town’s out of priority depletions will be offset when the <br />1866 right is out of priority by (1) leaving water from its Farmers High Line right in Clear Creek; <br />and (2) making releases of water from Georgetown Lake. <br />As noted above, entry of the Final Orders in Case No. 08CW266 was necessary prior to <br />finalizing decrees in the cases described above. All of these cases are set for trial in 2012 or 2013, <br />and Georgetown is hopeful that stipulated decrees will be negotiated prior to the trial dates in <br />these cases. <br />Two key issues that have impeded negotiated resolutions of these cases have been operation of <br />Georgetown Lake and the quality of the Town’s wastewater effluent. Operation of the lake was <br />addressed in the Final Orders in Case No. 098CW266, and the Town has recently completed a <br />new wastewater treatment plant that produces an acceptable effluent quality. Therefore, the <br />Town reasonably believes that stipulated decrees are likely to be reached in all of the pending <br />cases. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />