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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />of 37 acre feet, or 5% of total use would be required. The District <br />should pursue the availability of water from the Green Mountain <br />Reservoir for such purposes. A memorandum from a staff attorney <br />of the Northwest Colorado Council of Governments to Ms. Elizabeth <br />Etie, a commissioner for Summit County and attached in the appendix <br />of this report may be used as a guide in obtaining this water. This <br />memo expresses the opinion thct western Colorado water users can <br />obtain water free of charge from a 100,000 acre-foot pool for <br />augmentation purposes. <br /> <br />The costs of obtaining these water rights thru an augmentation <br /> <br /> <br />program are primarily legal costs and are included in the admin- <br /> <br /> <br />istration and legal costs of the system improvements. <br /> <br />F. ACTUAL AVAILABLE WATER <br />A continuous problem facing water suppliers in the West who rely <br />primarily on surface stream flows to meet their water demands is the water <br />supply availability in a stream. All the legal water rights available <br />to a supplier do not guarantee the availability of the actual water. <br /> <br />Accurate stream flow records are very incomplete for the Blue River <br />Basin. A gaging station on the Blue River, located three miles north <br />of Silver Shekel, will best represent the streamflow conditions and <br />water that could be available to the District. This gaging station was <br />established in 1957 which limits its reliability with time constraints. <br /> <br />111-11 <br />