PROJ00515

• Contract/PO #: FS0019X
• Contractor Name: Turkey Creek Snowball Creek Project CWRPDA 1985
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 0
• County: Archuleta
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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presently owned by the Southwest Water Conservation District. The
reservoir operation study presented later in this report assumes the full
use of this 30 cfs right to fill the reservoir.

The water rights owned by the Town of Pagosa Springs are for direct
diversion only. If an alternate. point of diversion is pursued, an
application for a storage right in Snowball Reservoir should also be made.
The town should maintain its right to continue to divert from the San Juan
River, since under the Town's senior water right, diversions could be made
from the river when they could not be made from Turkey Creek.

3.6 LEGAL CONSTRAINTS

Five classes of legal constraints need to be considered:

1. Present Turkey Creek rights.

2.

Senior adjudicated rights on the San Juan River.

3.

Unadjudicated Indian reservation claims.

4.

Calls by New Mexico under the terms of Article XIV of the Upper
Colorado River Basin Compact.

5. Calls at Lee Ferry under the terms of Article IV of the Upper
Colorado River Basin Compact.

Decrees on Turkey Creek which would be senior to project water rights
are shown on Figure 3.3. All senior absolute and conditional rights below
the Pagosa Springs gage, and senior conditional rights above the gage were
included in the operation study. Decrees on the mainstem San Juan senior
to project water rights include 225 cfs of conditional water rights above
the San Juan at Pagosa gage, and 285 cfs of senior absolute and conditional
rights below the gage. In addition, 24,700 acre-feet of storage rights
were identified. The total monthly diversion requirement for these rights
if fully developed, and the net incremental demand at the Pagosa Springs

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