BOARD01235

• Board Meeting Date: 2/9/1951
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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"3. The cost of construction and perpetual operation and maintenance of
the Aspen Reservoir shall be a charge against the project and shall be paid from
project revenues or as other\vise provided by the Congress of the United States.

"I.. The Aspen Reservoir shall be completed before any water is diverted
to Eastern Colorado by means of the project.

"5. The primary purpose of Aspen Reservoir is to furnish, in like man-
ner as if the project were constructed by a water conservancy district organized
pursuant to the laws of the State of Colorado, the water required for the pro-
tection of Jestern Colorado water users by the provisions of Section 1, Chapter
192, Colorado Session Laws, 1943 , reading as follows: "prOVided, however, that
any works or facilities planned and designed for the exportation of water from
the natural basin of the Colorado River ?nd its tributaries in Colorado, by any
district created under this chapter, shall be subject to the provisions of the
Colorado River Compact and the Boulder Canyon Project Act, as amended; that any
such Forks or facilities shall be designed, constructed and operated in such a
manner that the present appropriations of water, and in addition thereto
prospective uses of water for irrigation and other beneficial consumptive-use
purposes, including consumpt~ve usee for domestic, mining and industrial pur~
poses, within the natural basin of the .Colorado River in the State of Colorado,
from which water is exported, will not be impaired nor increased in cost a~ the
expense of the water users within the said natural basin; and that the.facilities
and other means for the accomplishment of said purpose shall be incor,porated in,
and made a part of, any project plans for the exportation of water from said
natural basin in Colorado."

"6. The replacement capacity of the Aspen Reservoir is that portion of
the total reservoir capacity required to protect existing rights to the use of
water in Western Colorado for domestic, irrigation, and manufacturing purposes
(including power generation) and hereafter acquired rights to use of water
in Western Colorado for domestic, irrigation, and manufacturing purposes
(excluding power generation) against any and all losses of needed water because
of stream depletions resultine from project operations.' In the determination of
such replacement capacity, consideration shall be given to, but not neces~arily
limited to, needs for water for the following purposes, such needs, however,
not to be for quantities in excess of those quantities of water which would have
been available from the Roaring For~ River to supply such needs if the project
had not been constructed:

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"(a) To supply existing rights below Aspen jls!lervoir;

"(b) To irrigate new land and provide for supplemental irri-
ga~ipn,in ~estern Colorado;

;.(~). 'Fo satisfy the obligation or' tbe. R?aring Fork River to con-
tribut~ its propor,tional share of the reguired winter flows at a
point immediately below the confluence of the Roaring Fork River and
the Colorado River; and