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<br />.. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />'.. <br /> <br />CALOIA " HoUPT, P.C. <br />ATTORl'iEYS AT LAW <br />1204 GIlANI> AVENUE <br />GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO 81601 <br /> <br />RECEIVED <br />JUl 06 1998 <br /> <br />Colorado Wat&r <br />Conservation Board <br /> <br />SHIlRRY A. CALOIA <br />JIlFFBRSON v. HOUPT <br />IIAll.BARA p.1C02llLXA <br /> <br />July 6, 1998 <br /> <br />TE!.EPIlONE: (970) 945-006'7 <br />FACSlMILIi: (970) 945-62P2 <br />E-mail: calDia&houpt@sepri..no. <br /> <br />Peter H. Evans, Acting Director <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />1313 Shennan Street, Room 721 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br /> <br />Via Facsimile <br />(303) 866-4474 <br /> <br />Wendy C. Weiss <br />First Assistant Attorney General <br />Natural Resources Section <br />1525 Shennan Street, 3rd Floor <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br /> <br />Via Facsimile <br />(303) 866-3558 <br /> <br />Re: Case Nos. 95CW296 and 9SCW297: <br />CWCB's Instream Flow Claims on the Coln...r1n River <br /> <br />Dear Peter and Wendy: <br /> <br />This letter is in response to the CWCB-'s request for input on the disposition ofits <br />instream flow claims on the Colorado River. This film represents the following entities, <br />each of which filed a Statement of Opposition to both the Base Flow claims and the <br />Recovezy Flow claims: The County of Eagle; The Towns of Eagle, ~arbondale, DeBeque, <br />and Palisade; Powderhom Recreation and Development Company and Powderhom <br />Metropolitan District. <br /> <br />Our clients an: primarily local governments and special districts charged with <br />providing water service to growing populations on the Western Slope. They are relatively <br />small water users who divert their water supplies from the Colorado River and its tributaries. <br />Approximately 90% of what they divert is returned to the Colorado River system upstream <br />of the 15 Mile Reach. Individually and collectively, their contributions to the depletion of <br />the Colorado River upstream of the 15 Mile Reach is de minimis. They rely on Colorado's <br />existing appropriation system, the Colorado River Compact, and existing Western Slope <br />compensatoI)' storage facilities to provide the water they will need for their citizens and <br />customers. <br /> <br />As filed and as currently structured, CWCB's claimed instream flow applications <br />represent a major threat to the availability of water to fulfill our clients' future needs. <br />Although the Reeovezy Flow application describes a 100,000 acre foot "carve out," which <br />would be modifiable up to 400,000 acre feet, the most rccent iteration of the Fish and <br />Wildlife Service's Biological Opinion for the 15 Mile Reach would allow only 60,000 acre <br /> <br />CWeB-Evans.llr <br /> <br />.26 ~. <br />( <.o,v\ \ <br />