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<br />mentioned in Division 7, we're now getting, the only thing left is stock watering. To some extent,
<br />we have to be careful that we use our water as efficiently as possible because if we try to move
<br />water from one point to the other, as we go into the summer, the Phreatotypes (sp?) and the fact
<br />that re-wetting the perimeter if its dry is going to take more water than what we will actually get
<br />down to the stream. And we'll have a lot of losses through the system. Sitting right here in May,
<br />San Juan, Pagosa Springs, right here is the Dolores, Division 7. They're well below normal, the
<br />rivers are running at 40% of normal. Now again, this doesn't tell the whole story, because this is
<br />40% of normal when they start to increase, and we're already down and coming...ifyou want to
<br />call it peaked and coming down. So it's really not good. Very senior ditches came on almost
<br />immediately, and Navajo Reservoir inflow is only 35% of average. 1'lllet the BOR talk more
<br />about the project, but they're drawing about 800 AF daily out of storage out of Lemon, and that
<br />would only last about 20-30 days ifthey maintained that rate. And it took well over our water,
<br />just as I mentioned the losses, for some ofthe water to seep down the ditches to charge up the
<br />system, which is certainly more than normal. Again, just the fact that we do have groundwater,
<br />these areas are certainly connected to the surface streams, and so therefore they are administered.
<br />This was Dillon again, this was about a week later. That's all I have, unless you have some
<br />questions.
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<br />- Jack, have you been able to estimate at this point what type of electric power stations are
<br />likely to go out as the reservoirs and streamflow really go down?
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<br />Jack - Right now, the ones that we normally deal with, of course the BOR will talk about those,
<br />the Shoshone is still in priority, and so they will probably have water for some time. We're not
<br />aware... we have no reports from Public Service Company of Colorado, must be Excel now?
<br />We've got no reports from them that they have any power coming off-line. As far as I know, we
<br />still have power being generated at the Bureau plants appropriately. 1'lllet you deal with those in
<br />your report.
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<br />_ - Back to your connent, ..(inaudible)...available water still the ag user...is there also some
<br />leasing of water back to ag and municipalities, and _(inaudible)_ will ag be adversely affected?
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<br />Jack - Let me start with the start ofthat question, 1'll walk through it a little bit. Certainly the
<br />historic use within Colorado from our records of diversions, about 80% of the water goes to
<br />agricultural. And that would be even the leased water back. It would be 80% to agricultural.
<br />Certainly there are some lease agreements, and it's my understanding at this point in time is that
<br />some of those municipalities have chosen not to lease that water, they've chosen to have it held
<br />down around in Division 7. There are some of the irrigation companies that have voluntarily,
<br />negotiated, 1'm sure, but voluntarily decided to reserve some water for domestic use. Certainly
<br />there's a point in time when whatever that water supply is for the ag, it's not enough, but it's still
<br />water that they have available. And through 1414 passing allows us, the State Engineer's office to
<br />legally allow some of those substitute supply plans to occur moving that water from other uses to
<br />those uses that are more critical at this point in time. And obviously, in most cases, there's a nice
<br />mutual willing agreement to do that.
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<br />- My point was, now that the reservoir storage is slipping (?).. .(inaudible).. .not being in a
<br />drought situation, (inaudible) we know the rest ofthe storage will go. Likewise, municipalities
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