PROJ00259

• Contract/PO #: C153424
• Contractor Name: Colorado River Water Conservation District
• Water District: 0
• Bill Number: XB 99-999
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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In this case decreed means existing while conditional means
the project has not been completed. A direct flow right gives the
right to remove water from the stream at a certain point, or in the
case of instream flows, to leave the water in the stream. Storage
rights allow the owner to retain water in a reservoir.

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All of these rights are assigned a basin rank, with
tive priority to be used during times of shortage. The basin
usually directly related to the date of appropriation.
Colorado River Basin a senior right might have a basin rank of
an appropriation date of 1883. A very junior right would
recent appropriation date and a basin rank of about 6500.

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Within the Colorado River Basin above Cameo the principal
water rights and physical features controlling the operation of the
basin are:

Denver's Transbasin Diversion System

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ODillon Reservoir
oWilliams Fork Reservoir
oRoberts Tunnel
oMoffat Tunnel

Colorado-Big Thompson (C-BT) System with Appurtenances

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oGranby Reservoir
oGreen Mountain Reservoir
oAdams Tunnel
OWindy Gap Pumping Station

Water Rights at Shoshone Hydroelectric Power Plant

Frying Pan Arkansas Project

ORuedi Reservoir
oBusk Ivanhoe, Boustead and other Tunnels

Water Rights near Cameo

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There are numerous other large water users; however, those
listed above are the principal controlling features.

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Dillon is a major water storage reservoir for Denver; it
delivers water to the Roberts Tunnel, a transbasin diversion. The
Moffat Tunnel is also a trans basin diversion but the water comes from
direct diversions, not a reservoir. The Williams Fork Reservoir is

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