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<br /> <br />Glossary <br /> <br />@ <br /> <br />Riparian: located or living along or near a river or stream. <br /> <br />River Basin: a physiographic region bounded by a drainage divide; consists <br />of a drainage system comprised of stream and often natural or man-made lakes. See <br />"Watershed." <br /> <br />Second Fill: a legal allowance for a reservoir or other storage right to be re- <br /> <br />filled. <br /> <br />Senior Rights: water rights with a relatively early priority date. See "Priority <br /> <br />Date." <br /> <br />Storage Right: a water right defined in terms of the volume of the water <br />which may be stored in a reservoir or lake to be released and used at a later time <br />either within the same year or during a subsequent year. <br /> <br />Subordinate: a process through which a senior water rights holder allows <br />junior water rights holder(s) to be satisfied out of priority. <br /> <br />Subordination Agreement: a legal document by which a senior water right <br />agrees to subordinate his water use to a junior right. See "Subordinate." <br /> <br />Transmountain Diversion: the conveyance of water from one drainage <br />basin to another. In Colorado, the term often refers to water being transported over or <br />through the Continental Divide sometimes called "trans-basin diversion." <br /> <br />Tributary: a stream that flows into another stream or body of water. <br /> <br />Unappropriated: water in a river system for which no water rights have <br />been claimed. <br /> <br />Upper Colorado River Basin: the Colorado River and its tributaries in New <br />Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. <br /> <br />Water Court: a state district court that hears matters related to water. To <br />obtain a judicially recognized water right, change in water right, or augmentation <br />plan, persons or entities file applications with a water court to be issued a decree or <br />order. There are seven water courts in the state, one for each water division, corre- <br />sponding to each major drainage basin. <br /> <br />Water Right: a right to use, in accordance with its priority, a certain portion <br />of the waters of the state for irrigation, power, domestic use or another similar use. <br />See also "Absolute Water Right," "Conditional Water Right," ';.\ppropriation," and <br />"Priority." <br /> <br />Watershed: an area from which water drains to a single stream or river or <br />river system or other body of water. See also "River Basin." <br /> <br />Gunnison Basin Water <br /> <br />. 57 . <br />