PROJ00474

• Contract/PO #: FS0005x
• Contractor Name: Central Colorado Water Conservancy District
• County: El Paso
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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Table I, cont'd
Bootleg Reservoir Storage

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Year Amount (Acre-feet)
1964 "flood"
1965 "flood"
1966 0
1967 "2 floods"
1968 0
1969 0
1970 0
1971 0
1972 0
1973 "6 floods"
1974 0
1975 0
1976 0
1977 0
1978 0
1979 "flood"
1980
1981
1982
1983

Comments

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Henrylyn data
Henrylyn data

Four days; Henrylyn data

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Damaging flood; Henrylyn data

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Henrylyn data
Record not available
Record not available
Record not available
Breached

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Note:

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Bootleg
District 1.
vicinity, it
and recorded

Reservoir lies within the southwestern part of former Water
Because there are no administered surface water rights in the
is doubtful whether the water commissioner regularly observed
all flows into Bootleg Reservoir.

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Where appropriate, the records of the Henrylyn Irrigation District
have been substituted for the record of the water commissioner. Mr.
Gerkin, manager of the Henrylyn Irrigation District, was able to provide
detailed records for the period 1964 through 1979.

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When the water commissioner noted in his records that the reservoir
was "Full", this probably indicates a storage volume of approximately
6,200 acre-feet, plus spill into the Denver Hudson Canal and Box Elder
Creek.

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