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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Lake for storage of its transferred direct flow decrees. Water made available to the City from its ownership of shares in Marshall Lake Division must be used during the historical irrigation season at times when the Community Ditch is diverting water to other water users. Therefore, the City's ownership of shares in Marshall Lake cannot be used for a winter water supply according to the current by-laws of FRICO. Should the City not use its allocation of water during a particular .irrigation season, such water may be carried over to sub- sequent years, however, should Marshall Lake fill under its own storage decrees, any water carried over from previous years reverts back to the common ownership of the irrigation company. Since carry-over water would be lost should Marshall Lake fill under its own storage decrees, such carry-over storage made available by the City's ownership of 103.54 shares will provide a dependable supply of 694 acre-feet. Under the special agreement with FRICO, the City has the right to utilize all unused capacity of the Community Ditch and Marshall Lake in preference over any other municipality or other water user except for FRICO. Since the lake fills only in very wet years, and since there is normally significant amount of available storage capacity, the lease and exchange agreement with FRICO serves somewhat to reduce the amount of raw water storage the City must acquire. The lake will be a considerable benefit to the City even in those years when it fills under its own decrees. Such is the case since FRICO normally starts releasing water from Marshall Lake for irrigation during the early part of May. Releases are usually in large volumes of usually over 100 acre-feet per day which thereby create surplus capacity at a sufficient rate to allow storage of large quantities of water available to the City during the months of May and June. 24