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ARCA Annual Meeting 29 <br /> December 14, 1993 <br /> 40 <br /> 1 This water is their imported water and in the case of Twin Lakes, some of it is <br /> 2 native but the majority, the vast majority, of it is all imported water and especially from the <br /> 3 Colorado River. <br /> 4 CHAIRMAN COOLEY: And Tommy, that was very helpful to me. <br /> 5 It would appear that water administered in the Fry-Ark just encompasses a broad <br /> 6 spectrum of other rights, other decrees; some of them very senior, and other projects. Is that a <br /> 7 fair generalization, Tommy? <br /> 8 TOMMY THOMSON: Yes, sir, it certainly is. And we thank Mr. Jesse, not only <br /> 9 for his previous work as Division Engineer but for the two years he worked for me in the Bureau <br /> 10 of Reclamation, but Bob portrayed it very accurately. It is water that otherwise would have been <br /> 11 down in Glen Canyon or in Lake Powell or Lake Mead, or in the Gulf of California. But in <br /> 11112 addition to the things that Bob talked about we also have Ruedi Reservoir. As you know, we had <br /> 13 several meetings in Glenwood Springs on that one,just recently, as to the future operation of <br /> 14 Ruedi. The combination of all of them make an excellent management program. <br /> 15 CHAIRMAN COOLEY: I am very grateful for your remarks. The only other <br /> 16 question that fascinates me every time there is a feature article in one of the Denver papers, is the <br /> 17 rafting releases, that you have already discussed and probably covered, but that would be in your <br /> 18 case, if you had water in storage at Turquoise, say and capacity in Pueblo, for example, if you <br /> 19 would, you might make a rafting release without losing domain over the water, and be able to <br /> 20 accommodate the rafters without seriously injuring your own decrees or rights, is that the idea? <br /> 21 MR. THOMSON: That's precisely what we are doing. We are paying more <br /> 22 attention to the other entities and when we schedule releases, we never lose control of the water, <br /> .3 and, in fact, if there is any additional evaporation caused by the movement of this water, the <br /> 24 rafting companies themselves purchase water rights and replace that to the projects. This year, <br />