BOARD02109

• Board Meeting Date: 6/15/1950
• Description: Table of Contents, Minutes and Resolutions. Volumes I and II of Transcription of Meeting
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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. 2. The Aspen Reservoir shall be cqnstructed and maintained on the
"oaring Fork River above the town of Aspen, Colorado, with an active capacity
of about 28,000 acre-feet and with a reasonable expectancy that it will fill
annually. The 28,000 acre-feet of water stored therein shall be available
for replacement j:Urposes in Western Colorado. All of such stored water shall
be released under the conditions and limitations hereinafter set forth.

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3. The cost of 'construction and perpetual operation and maintenance
of the Aspen Reservoir shall be a.'change agains'!; the project and shall be
paid frorI project revenues or as othendse provided by the "ongress of the
United States.

4. The Aspe,n Reservoir shall be completed before any water is diverted
to EasterIh;Colorado by means of the project.

5. The primary plrpose of Aspen Reservoir is to furnish the water
required for the protection of Western Colorado water users in accordance
with provisions of Section 1, Chapter 191, Colorado Session Laws, 1943.

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 the
use of water in Western Colorado for domestic, irrigation, and manufacturing
purposes (excluding power generation) against any anp all losses of needed
water because of stream depletions resulting from project operations. In
the determination of such replacement capacity, ~onsideration shall be given
to, but not necessarily limited to, needs for water, in quantities not in
excess of those quantities of water which would have been available from the
Hoaring Fork River to supply.such needs if the project had not been con-,
structed, for the following ,purposes:

(a) To supply existing rights below Aspen Reservoir;

(b) To irrigate new land and provide for supplemental irrigation
ih Western Colorado.

(c) To satisfy the obligation of the Roaring Fork River to con-
tribute its proportional share of the required winter flows at a
point immediately belen( the confluence of the Roaring Fork River and
the Colorado River; and,

(d) To satisfy the obligation of the H.oaring Fork Hi ver to con-
tribute its proportional share of a demand of at least 300,000 acre-
feet of water annually in the 00lorado River below its confluence
with the Roaring Fork River, for domestic and manufacturing uses.
3aid demand for use in Western Colorado is to be met at the times and
in the amounts required.

. 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 distr;ibution of the water of the stream
or streams affected, whenever the needs in the Colorado River Basin in Western

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