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~'s74 Recently, an amended filing on the Williams Fork Reservoir was accepted in the State Engipeer's office under date of February 27, 1956. In this filing it is stated that the reservoir shown therein is ex?ctly the same as the reservoir shown on the filing No.. 16051 mentioned above, but that statements in the amended filing will show a different estimated cbst and additional purposes for which the structure will be used. An addition to the claim set out in the original filing was * * * "for the further purpose-of filling and refillipg said reservoir throughout the year." With regard to the use of the reservoir, the statement in the amended filing did not connect the stream regulation to jus~the Williams Fork and the Jones Pass tunnel, but extended the connection to "transmountain tunnels or ditches constructed or to be constructed through or over the Continental Divide, between the watershed of the Colorado River and the watershed of the South Platte River, and in connection with regulating use of water of tributaries of the Colorado River among themselves, and in connection with all purposes relat~d to the decree of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado in consolidated cases numbered 2782, 5016 and 5017 heretofore filed in the office of the State Engineer ***, and as shown on the filing for the Williams Fork Reservoir Power conduit filed on the same date as this filing. Waters of the Williams Fork River and stored water released from time to time from said reservoir will be used for the generation of hydro- electric energy by means of a pen stock, power plant, and appurtenant works in and below the dam." This filing also states that the reservoir is an integral part of the Denver Municipal Water Works System, various parts of which have been heretofore shown in filings. The filing for the Williams Fork Power Conduit, No. 20636, is dated February 27, 1956 and states that the carrying capacity of the conduit is 440 cubic feet per second. Attached to this memorandum are copies of pertinent statments which appear in these filings. A status report on the Cliffs-Divide project was made available by the Bureau of Reclamation in February 1954. One of the potential projects described in this report was the Parshall Unit, which would use water from the Williams Fork. This unit is planned to bring water to 27,510 acres, including 3,100 acres presently irrigated, on Williams River, Little Muddy Creek and the lower east side of Blue River. It is estimated by the Bureau that it woul'd provide an average of about 69,000 acre feet annually for these lands. One of its features would be the potential Ute Park Reservoir, which would be situated above the Williams Fork Reservoir and have a storage capacity of about 40,000 I I