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<br />11-10 <br /> <br />I <br />II <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 />The YJWCD also owns a more junior water rilght with an adjudication date of <br />December 31, 1976. This conditional right consists of the right to stol'e <br />80,000 acre-feet of water in Sawmill Mountain Reservoir by diverting up to <br />500 cfs from the North Fork of the White River approximately nine miles <br />upstream of Buford. The Sawmill Mountain Reservoir site is located on Big <br />Beaver Creek just above Lake Avery. <br /> <br />Another YJWCD water right is for the transbasin diversion of waters from the <br />Yampa River B,ls into the upper reaches of Lost Creek in the Wh ite River <br />Basin. This conditional right allows for the diversion of 100 cfs from each <br />of two collector canals located in the upper basin of the South Fork of the <br />Wi 11 i ams Fork, <br /> <br />One of the pr'imary objectives of this study was to examine a number c,f <br />alternative p"ans for diverting, storing, and delivering water using tre <br />YJWCD water r"ghts. The alternatives include storage sites and diversicn <br />points in addition to those described in the various decrees. <br /> <br />The utilization of YJWCD's conditional water rights at locations other than <br />those in the c,riginal decree would require proceedings in water court. One <br />limitation which could be imposed by the water court is that only the amount <br />of water physically available at the originally decreed diversion and <br />location of storage would be allowed for diversion at alternate points <br />downstream. Several precedents for such a limitation exist in transfer <br />cases in the ~hite River Basin. The decrees for change customarily require <br />the installation of streamflow measurement stations at the original <br />diversion points, and an estimated conveyance loss that would be charged <br />against the total water supply available. The originally decreed points of <br />diversion and storage are therefore very important in properly assessin9 <br />long-term project yields. <br /> <br />Various analyses of YJWCD's water rights indicate that substantial <br />differences of opinion exist concerning the allowable depletion associated <br />with these rights. The CWCB concluded that it was neither appropriate nor <br />possible to resolve the differences within the scope of this study, <br />