Board Meeting 08/16/1982

• Board Meeting Date: 8/16/1982
• Description: CWCB Meeting
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

project because of the water regulation effect such a reservoir
woulo have on the flows of the river.

In the Upper Unit, water would be diverted just west of
Ft. Morgan and-piped to Fremont Butte reservoir about eight miles
northwest of ~kron. Also, water would be diverted through the
Prewitt reservoir enlargemeqt and piped to Fremont Butte
reservoir. The North Sterling pump plant and pipeline may also
be used for the benefit of the district by pumping water into the
existing North Sterling reservoir inlet, east of Sterling, to
eliminate approximately 30 miles of canal and take full advantage
of return flows in the river reach from Balzac to Sterling. From
Fremont Butte reservoir, water would be re-stored and/or
distributed for use in the Northern, Central, and Southern W-Y
reservoirs, through the High Plains, NOrthern W-Y, and Southern
W-Y canals.

In the Lower Unit, water would be diverted near Sedgwick
and piped over the basin divide for storage in the Marks Butte
and Phillips-Sedgwick number one and two reservoirs.
Subsequent distribution would be by the Phillips-Sedgwick canal
and lateral.

Through the Internal Management Plan, the project would
capture precipitation runoff, usually from heavy storms in the
project area, and distribute it through the proposed facilities
for di rect use or possible ,ground recharge.

WATER RIGHTS

The South Platte River diversioni and all associated
storage and conveyance facilities were conditionally decreed by
the water court for Water Division 1 on June 8, 1978, in Case
Number W-8103. The apPlication, filed in December, 1975, was
decreed with a priority date of July 10, 1975. Decreed uses
include irrigation, domestic, municipal, commercial, industrial,
power generation, recreation, piscatorial, exchange,
substitution, replacement, augmentation, and recharge, including
rights of use and reuse of all trans-basin return flows and waste
waters, and for all other beneficial uses.

Application for a conditional water right for the Internal
Management plan was filed with the water court for Water Division
1 in December, 1977, in Case Number W-g755. A decree was
entered by the water judge on April 12, 1982. This right will
provide variable amounts of water, depending on weather
conditions and precipitation, with priority dates of December
27-30, 1977. Decreed uses are the same ,as listed above.

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