BOARD01235

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

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"(d) To satisfy the obligation of the Roaring Fork River to contribute
its proportional share of a demand of at least 300,000 acre-feet of water
annually in the Colorado River below its confluence with the Roaring Fork
River, for domestic and manufacturing uses. Said demand for use iil West-
ern Colorado is to be met at the times and in the amounts required.

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"Water stored in the replacement'capacity of the Aspen Reservoir shall be
released by the United States, upon the request of the state administrative
agency having responsible charge of the distribution of the water of the stream
or str.eams affected, whenever the needs in the Colorado River Basin in Western
Colorado below the project diversion points for the uses covered by this paragraph
6 exceed the available supply of water; provided that the rate of release of such
stored water shall be reasonable and proper with due regard for the needs in
Western Colorado for replacement water and with due regard, also, for the obliga-
tion of the project to supply such water.

"No charge shall ever be imposed for water released from,or made available
by reason of releases from, the replacement capacity of the Aspen Reservoir.

"7. That. portion of the total capacity of the Aspen Reservoir not needed
as replacement capacity constitutes surplu~ capacity. Water stored in such sur-
plus capacity may be sold or leased by thelUnited States to water users in
Western Colorado. Charges for the use of ~uch water shall be comparable to
charges for use of project water for similar purposes in Eastern Colorado with
appropriate adjustment for the repayment ability of such water users. If it
hereafter appears that the cost of procuring water, from sources other than the
surplus capacity of the Aspen Reservoir, for the same uses as those to which
water from the surplus capacity of the reservoir is to be made available shall
have been increased by reason of the construction and operation of the-project,
then the charges for water released from the surplus capacity shall be diminished
by the amount of such increase in cost.

"8. Project diversions from Lime Creek shall be made only in the months of
May and June of each year.

"9. To protect recreational values, including fishing, no diversions from
Western Colorado will be made which reduce the remaining aggregate stream flows
to less than either of the following minimum standards:

"(a) The Fryingpan collection system at the points of diversion
collectively, exclusive of Lime ,Creek --- 15 c.f.s. October 1 through.
March 31; 30 c.f.s. April 1 through September 30;

neb) Near Norrie (immediately below the junction of North Fork and
Fryingpan River)--30 c.f.s. October 1 through March 3l; 100 c.f.s. April 1
through April 30; 150 c. f.s. May 1 through May 31; 200 c. f.s. June 1
through June 30; 100 c.f.s. July 1 through July 31; 75 c.I.s. August 1
through August 31; 65 c.f.s. September 1 through September 30.

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"In maintaining the above minimum standards, the project diversions shall be
regulated, so far as is practicable, in such a manner that the North Fork, the
Fryingpan River, and each of the tributaries of those streams, shall contribute
to the residual stream flows I:equired by those minimum standards quantities of
water in proportion to their natural contributions.