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1088 Water and Irrigation Ch. 232 CHAPTER 232 WATER AND IRRIGATION RESERVOIRS HOUSE BILL NO, 1186. BY REPRESENTATIVES Carpenter, Shoemaker. Herzog, Dambman. Younglund, Swenson, McInnis, M.L. Bird. Pankey, Paulson, and Shoemaker; also SENATORS McCormick. Bishop, Allard, Rizzuto, Strickland, and Wattenberg. AN ACT CONCERNING PROBABLE FUTURE WATER FLOWS, AND RELATING TO HAZARDS ASSOCIATED THEREWITH. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: Section 1. 37-87-102 (2) and (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, as amended, are REPEALED AND REENACTED, WITH AMENDMENTS, to read: 37.87-102. Definitions . natural streams aud use thereof by reservoir owners. (2) Whenever the records basic to a determination of probable future water flows, either with respect to this section or by other require- ments of law, extend for a period of one hundred or more years, the calcula- tion based upon those results shall be deemed conclusive. If such records do not extend for a period of one hundred or more years the determination shall be made by interpolation and correlation to a full one hundred years of records by relating them to known records of water basins as similar as reasonably possible to the basin under consideration or by other acceptable methods. (3) (a) In any case in which a determination of probable future surface water flows at any place in the state is required, the calculation shall be based upon past surface water runoff at the place in question supplemented as pro- vided in this section. Such probable flows shall be determined by reference to the records of reliable stream gauging stations..A stream gauging station record shall be deemed reliable if made by the state of Colorado or the United States as part of a regular program of either of those entities, except as to any part of such records which the state engineer shall have designated as being unreliable, on the basis of facts so showing. Whenever a designation of probable future runoff is required at a place other than the location of a reliable stream gauging station, the determination of probable runoff at such other place shall be made by relating the probable future runoff at that place Capital letters indicate new material added to existing statutes; dashes through words indicate deletions from existing statutes and such material not part of act.