BOARD01979

• Board Meeting Date: 3/29/1999
• Description: ISF Section - Statements of Opposition - Case No. 2-98CW138, Pueblo Board of Water Works
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Agenda Item 6e
Case No. 2-98CW138; Pueblo Board of Water Works

Application Summary

This is an application for a 12,230 acre-foot conditional storage reservoir with an additional
enlargement of 16,558 acre-feet of conditional storage along with conditional appropriative rights of
exchange in Pueblo, Fremont, Chaffee and Lake Counties (see attached map). Pueblo is requesting to
fill this reservoir with water from Tennessee Creek and its tributaries and/or by exchange with credits
from any of its transmountain sources (i.e, Ewing, Wurtz, Columbine, Busk-Ivanhoe, Homestake,
Independence Pass and/or Fry-Ark Systems) and/or Pueblo's storable native water stored in Turquoise
Lake, 'I'win Lakes, ,Clear-Greek and PueblouReservoirs and/or with waste water' retulTl' flows.
Applicant is requesting an appropriative right of exchange for all of the above water rights into
Tennessee Creek Reservoir for different rates and different exchange dates. Applicant is also
requesting the right to exchange water stored in Tennessee Creek Reservoir into Turquoise, Twin
Lakes and Clear Creek Reservoirs. The date of appropriation for these exchanges are June 26, 1967,
and July 1, 1997, In addition, the Board has an instream flow water right on East Tennessee Creek
which could be inundated by the proposed conditional reservoir.

CWCB Appropriations
The Board has the following ISF water rights which could be injured by this application.

Case No.
2-75W427I
2-77W427I
2-77W427I
2-77W4650

Stream
Lake Creek
Lake Fork Creek
Lake Fork Creek
, East Tennessee Creek

Amount (cfs)
15
20
15
2

Approo. Date
5/1/1975
1/19/1977
1/19/1977
1/19/77

Potential for Iniuty

Applicant's request to store water in Turquoise and Twin Lakes Reservoirs by exchange may
deplete the Board's Lake Creek and Lake Fork Creek instrearn flows at a time and in an amount
in which they were not historically depleted, Applicant's proposed reservoir may inundate a
portion of the Board's East Tennessee Creek instream flow right.

Other Obiectors

Other objectors include the Eagle Sky Foundation, the Fort Lyon Canal Company, Lake Fork Ranch
Company, St. Charles Mesa Water District, the Holbrook Mutual Irrigating Company, the Colorado
River Water Conservation District, the City of Salida, East Twin Lakes Ditches and Water Works,
Arkansas Water Conservancy District, Arkansas Valley Ditch Association, Edith M. Seppi and S&Z
Ltd., Eagle Park Reservoir Company, City of Florence, Public Service Company of Colorado, Lake
, County Board of Commissioners, US Bureau of Land Management, US Forest Service, Colorado
Division ofWtldlife and Mount Massive Lakes, Inc.

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