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<br />house. Furthermore, irrigation and ornamental ponds have been allowed on or just above the slide that . <br />increase the likelihood of slippage as the reservoir is lowered. It is anticipated that elevation 7850 will <br />be reach cd sometime inmid-Scptember. <br /> <br />As a rcsult, the following issues are developing. First, it is the legal position of Reclamation and <br />Northcrn that this loss of water is to be borne by the HUP pool (west slope interests). The Colorado <br />River WCD is taking the opposite position and suggests that the loss should be split evenly between the <br />HUP Pool and the CBT replaccment pool. NOlthcrn has acquired 10,000 AF of water out of the <br />regulatory capacity at Ruedi Reservoir to ease this loss and Reclamation has issued an environmental <br />assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact that will allow this transaction to go forward this year. <br />Please note that regulatory capacity at Ruedi is primarily for the benefit of west slope users, However, <br />thc 10,000 AF sought at Ruedi is not under contract for any purpose and does not impact water available <br />to endangered fish, but such use would impact recreation at the reservoir and possibly on the Fryingpan <br />downstrcam ofRuedi. <br /> <br />Couplc this with the fact that water stored and used out-of-priority above Green Mountain this year must <br />bc rcpaid since Green Mountain did not fill (Substitution Year) and the fact that Reclamation has <br />declared a 100% shortage to the contract pool at Green Mountain (Contract users get no water and thus <br />have no functional augmentation plans) and you can see the difficulties developing as the drought <br />continues. Attached are some photo's showing the slide area, We will work with Reclamation and <br />others to see what can be done to lessen or remove these operating restrictions, <br /> <br />The following are pictures of the reservoir taken on Aug. 21: <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />~, <br /> <br /> <br />California Water Rights Protection Campaign: Advertisements have begun appearing in Califomia <br />metropolitan newspapers signaling the start of a campaign by a coalition of business, agricultural and <br />community leaders to protect the water rights of the Imperial Valley. <br /> <br />Imperial Valley United Co-Chairman John Pierre Menvielle said the organization decided to start an <br />education campaign in response to pressure to put farmland out of production to save the Salton Sea. <br />Imperial Valley United was formed after the Imperial Irrigation District signed the largest ever water <br />conservation and transfer agreement with the San Diego County Water Authority in 1998. The . <br />agreement, which would move up to 200,000 acre-feet of water to the coast, is an integral part of <br />Califomia's plan to reduce its over reliance on the Colorado River through the Quantification Settlement <br />Agreement (QSA). <br /> <br />14 <br />