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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />CARLSON, HAMMOND &. PADDOCK, L.L.C. <br /> <br />\ <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />March 9, 1 998 <br />Page 2 <br /> <br />included in the ewCB's February 5, 1998, Notice of Intent to Appropriate Instream Flow <br />Water Rights. The portion of each instream flow segment that would be inundated is <br />located on private land owned by Pueblo. The dam for Pueblo's proposed reservoir will be <br />located in the northwest quarter of Section 9, Township 9 South, Range 80 West of the 6th <br />P.M. <br /> <br />In addition to native water available for storage in priority, the reservoir will provide <br />direct storage capacity for two of Pueblo's transmountain diversion ditches (including the <br />Ewing Ditch - one of the oldest transmountain diversion in the State). Also, Pueblo will be <br />able to store its other transmountain and reusable waters in the reservoir by exchange. <br />Thus, the reservoir is an important and valuable component of Pueblo's long-term municipal <br />supply plans. <br /> <br />We are still in the process of compiling the material necessary to prepare a full report <br />to the ewCB at its next meeting scheduled for May 11 and 12, 1998. However, we wanted <br />to provide this summary of Pueblo's plans to the Board members as soon as possible. We <br />hope that the ewCB will allow us to present a more detailed report at that meeting. <br /> <br />At the May meeting Pueblo plans to formally request that the ewCB consider <br />delaying its appropriation of the proposed instream flow reach on Tennessee Creek until <br />Pueblo is able to secure a water storage decree for the reservoir. In the alternative, it may <br />be worthwhile to explore a possible stipulation by which the ewCB would recognize the <br />senior priority of Pueblo's storage appropriation. Pueblo also anticipates submitting a formal <br />"Request to Inundate" the stretch of East Tennessee Creek pursuant to Rule 8.10 of the <br />ewCB's Rules and Regulations when appropriate. <br /> <br />Thank you for taking this information into consideration and we look forward to <br />presenting a more detailed report to the ewCB at its May 1998 meeting. In the interim, <br />please feel free to contact me or Bill Paddock of this office, or Bud O'Hara at Pueblo's <br />Board of Water Works for more information at (719) 584-0236. <br /> <br />Yours very truly, <br /> <br />/l:-~~/c/~ <br />{et~ C. Fleming <br /> <br />cc: Bud O'Hara <br />Bill Mattoon, Esq. <br /> <br />PCf:jd~711 <br />