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<br />The reservoir has a total storage capacity of 153,639 af, with a dead storage of 6,860 af, It has <br />an original storage right ot 154,645 af and a refill right of 6,316 at. The operating policy of Green <br />Mountain Reservoir is set forth in Senate Document No, 80 (Act of August 9, 1937, 50 Stat. 564) and <br />reaffirmed in subsequent court decrees and stipulations including: <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />Consolidated Cases (Civil Actions) Nos, 2782,5016, and 5017 <br />October 12, 1955 Stipulation and Decree <br />April 16, 1964 Stipulation and Decree <br />November 2,1977 Memorandum Opinion and Order <br />February 9, 1978 Supplemental Judgment and Decree <br /> <br />-' <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />Senate Document No. 80 specifies that 52,000 at of storage in the Green Mountain Reservoir <br />is to be reserved to supply replacement water to the Colorado River for out-of-priority CST project <br />diversions. The balance of the storage, about 100,000 af, is to be used primarily for power <br />generation and for irrigation and domestic uses in western Colorado which are not satisfied by <br />natural flows. Under Senate Document No. 80, one of the uses of the Reservoir in such <br />circumstances, is to augment irrigation and domestic uses that existed in 1937 and, to the extent <br />storage water is thereafter available for release, to augment similar needs which subsequently arise, <br />To meet these needs, the Reservoir has been operated to maintain a flow of about 1250 cfs during <br />the irrigation season at the Dotsero gage in Glenwood Canyon. Approximately 66,000 af of water was <br />released from storage in 1977 to supplement natural flow shortages in western Colorado (USSR, <br />1963-1982), <br /> <br />The water rights for Green Mountain Reservoir have a priority date of 1935, and are senior to <br />those of Roberts Tunnel and Dillon Reservoir, which are Denver's Slue River diversion, A <br />combination of the 1955 and 1964 Stipulations and Decrees provided that, upon approval of the <br />Secretary of Interior, Denver can store out-of-priority water in Dillon Reservoir during the spring <br />snowmelt runoff season, This out-of-priority storage is permitted on the condition that if Green <br />Mountain Reservoir does not fill, water would be released later to satisfy the fill requirement of <br />Green Mountain Reservoir. Water can be released either from Dillon Reservoir to flow into Green <br />Mountain Reservoir, or from Williams Fork Reservoir to meet the Green Mountain Reservoir release <br />obligations, Another condition was that energy lost to the Green Mountain Power Plant because of <br />reduced flow, would be replaced in kind, <br /> <br />i <br />'-' <br /> <br />I <br />l...." <br /> <br />3-4 <br />