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<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 />I <br />I <br /> <br />Proceedings of a water court and/or negotiations between the interested <br />parties will be required. Absent such a judicial determination on these <br />rights, the CWCB assumed for purposes of this study that 80,000 acre-feet of <br />water per year would be consumed from the White River Basin under YJWCD's <br />1966 water rights. Judicial determinations concerning the consumptive use <br />of water by the Yellow Jacket water rights, however, could have a <br />significant impact upon conclusions and findings made in this report. <br /> <br />Other Water Rights <br />Other water rights in the basin must be fully considered to determine the <br />yield of the YJWCD water rights and the size of storage and diversion <br />systems. Those water rights were separated into three categories: 1) <br />senior absolute rights, 2) senior conditional rights, and 3) junior rights. <br />The White River Basin water rights listing of July 1, 1981 from the Colorado <br />.State Engineer was the sole reference for the determination of seniority. <br /> <br />Senior Absolute Water Rights <br />As mentioned previously, water development on the White River has been <br />largely associated with irrigated agriculture. The senior water rights in <br />the basin are predominantly agricultural rights, During normal years, there <br />is adequate flow in the White River to satisfy most of these agricultural <br />needs. As a result, the senior absolute rights include only a small number <br />of storage rights. <br /> <br />The main crops under irrigation are meadow hay and alfalfa with <br />grains. The senior water rights for agriculture differ greatly in <br />the flow rate per acre. However, extremely high water application <br />typical and a high percentage of the diverted water eventually <br />the river. <br /> <br />some small <br />terms of <br />rates are <br />returns to <br /> <br />The absolute water rights in the basin, senior to the 1966 YJWCD right, <br />constitute a total aggregate right to divert approximately 3200 cfs. Many <br />of those rights are on small tributaries and are not in a geographical <br />position to put a demand on the water available to the Yellow Jacket right. <br />The total demand of the absolute direct flow water rights on the mainstem <br /> <br />11-11 <br />