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present capacity of the tunnel is 1,181 c. f. s. and it is expected that work on the tunnei will continue so that this conditional right will be made absolute so as to accommodate the full decreed amount of 1,300 c.f.s. to meet existing needs of the .Uncompahgre Project. c. Also associated with the Gunnison Tunnel and the Uncompahgre Project are two conditional decrees for hydropower rights: the Uncompahgre Valley Hydroelectric Project which has a decree for 900.0 c.f.s. with a priority date of 2/16/81, and the AB Lateral Hydroelectric Project which has a decree for 235.0 c.f.s. with a priority date of 10/31/84. [These will be addressed in more detail under "conditional rights."] 2. Taylor Park Reservoir: , 71. Taylor Park Reservoir is owned by the United States of America and was constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation in the mid-1930's to provide a supplemental supply of water for the UVWUA when no water was available for diversion through the Gunnison Tunnel under the direct flow right. Taylor Park Reservoir is an "onstream" . reservoir located on the main channel of the Taylor River which, at its confluence with the East River (at Almont, Colorado), forms the Gunnison River. Water stored in Taylor Park Reservoir is used to supplement the direct flow right which is decreed for the Gunnison Tunnel (see discussion below in !!105- 106). The. water right for the Reservoir was decreed in 1941 for 111,260 acre feet with a priority date of August 3, 1904 for irrigation and other purposes. The total capacity of Taylor Park Reservoir below the spillway level is 106,230 acre feet of water. The 5,000 acre feet difference between the decreed amount and the <capacity stored below the spillway is due to the fact that under the design of the reservoir when there is sufficient head over the spillway to discharge the water, there will then be in the reservoir a total of 111,260 acre feet. 72. The original decree for Tayler Park Reservoir granted conditional rights, but in Civil Action No. 2021 of the District Court for Gunnison County on April 29, 1941, the irrigation purpose was declared absolute and the other purposes were continued on a conditional basis. In 1986 the conditional decree for non-irri- gation uses of Taylor Park Reservoir was terminated for lack of diligence, with the exception of two (2) cubic feet per second (not to exceed four (4) acre feet per year) which was continued for hydroelectric purposes. The 1941 decree for Taylor Park Reservoir, as modified in 1986, is for irrigation purposes only, with the sole exception of said hydroelectric power use. The original decree for Taylor Park Reservoir includes no decree for fishery or recreation purposes. . 73. The average volume of water discharged by the Taylor River at Taylor Park Reservoir for the years 1952 through 1988 was approximately 154,000 acre feet per year. 33