BOARD01235

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

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"10. An appropriate written contract shall be made whereby'the Twin Lakes
Reservoir and Canal Company shall refrain from diverting water whenever the
natural flow of the'Roaring Fork River and its tributaries shall be only suffic-
ient to maintain a flow equal to or less than that required to maintain the
recommended average flows in the Roaring Fork River at the head of the proposed
Aspen Reservoir in a quantity proportionate to the respective natural contribu-
tions of those streams from which diversions are made to the natural flow of the
Roaring Fork River. The 'recommended average flows above mentioned are flows
in quantities equal to thoserecommended as a minimum at the head of the Aspen
Reservoir according to the following schedule submitted by the United states
Fish and Wildlife Service and the Colorado Game and Fish Commissionl

Average Acre-feet
"Month Second-feet (1,000)
October 44 2.7
November 35 2.l
December 29 1.8
January 26 1.6
February 25 1.4
March 24 1.5
April 64 3.8
May 100 6.2
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June 120 7.1
July 100 6.2
August 63 3.9
September 44 2.6
Total '40.9

"In maintaining the above averages, at no time shall the flow be
reduced below 15 c.f .s. during the months of August to April, inclusive, or
below 60 c.f.s. during the months of May to July, inclusive, providing the
natural flow during said period is not less than these amounts. The obligation
to supp].y the minimum stream flow as set forth in the above table on the Roaring
Fork River shall, to the extent of 3,000 acre-feet annually, be a project obliga-
tion to be supplied from a~v waters diverted from the south tributaries of Hunter
Creek, Lime Creek, Last Chance Creek, or any of them.

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"The Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Company shall not be required to
refrain from divertine water under its existing decrees from the Roaring Fork
River except to the extent that a like quantity of replacement water is furnished
to said company without charge therefor through and by meansof project diversioni.

"If by reason of storage capacity in the Aspen Reservoir, the Twin Lakes
Reservoir and Canal Company derives additional water or other benefits or advant-
ages it would not have realized had this project not been constructed, then
nothing herein contained shall prevent the project from making appropriate charges
for such water or other benefits or advantages.