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Howardsville Language <br /> Animas Workgroup Meeting <br /> January 17, 2013 <br /> Bruce Whitehead(Southwestern Water Conservation District) <br /> The Animas Workgroup expressed a strong sentiment to recommend that no new major <br /> impoundments be developed on the Animas River mainstem above Silverton (confluence of <br /> Cement Creek), which includes the decreed location and SWSI site for the Howardsville <br /> Reservoir. The Southwestern Water Conservation District (SWCD) holds the water rights for the <br /> Howardsville site, which is still an active conditional water right associated with the Animas-La <br /> Plata Project. Under the Animas-La Plata as constructed, water is stored in Ridges Basin <br /> Reservoir (a/k/a Lake Nighthorse) utilizing the alternate point of storage water right associated <br /> with Howardsville Reservoir. The SWCD has participated in the River Protection Workgroup <br /> process and acknowledges the sentiment of the group, but wants the record to reflect that <br /> these active conditional water rights exist at the Howardsville site. In the interest of achieving <br /> consensus on the River Protection Workgroup discussion, the District can concur in general with <br /> the groups recommendation, noting that nothing in this recommendation may be used to <br /> adversely impact the water rights associated with the Animas-La Plata Project as decreed in <br /> Case No. B-1751, and as changed in Case No. 80CW237. <br />