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<br />" . ~ ') <br />GOtj45~ <br /> <br />GROUP "8" <br /> <br />WOlD <br /> <br />PROJECT ALLOCATION <br /> <br />Florida Canal <br />Florida Farmers Ditch <br /> <br />301013 <br />301011 <br />TOTAL <br /> <br />17,440 AF <br />6.780 AF <br />24,220 AF <br /> <br />Because the Project water is owned by individuals rather than by ditch companies, it is <br />difficult to identify the allocations specific to the individual ditches in Group" A". Accordingly, the <br />allocations assigned to the ditches in Group "A" and to the two ditches in Group "B" are based <br />on information obtained from the Florida Water Conservancy District and on the irrigated acreage <br />under each of the ditch systems, as determined from the CROSS mapping effons. The allocation <br />process is complicated by the fact that individuals with lands under the Florida Farmers "Co-op" <br />ditch, have their own specified allocations as do the individuals that receive water from the Florida <br />Canal Enlargement, The derived values are consistent with the allocations used by, the <br />Conservancy District. <br /> <br />Ponions of the Florida Project water supplies are delivered to lands owned by members of <br />the Southern Ute Indian Tribe. These deliveries are reflected in the total allocation for the Group <br />"A" ditches 1114 acre-feet out of 1,520 acre-feet) and the "Group B" ditches 11,886 acre-feet out <br />of 24,220 acre-feet). <br /> <br />Other than Lemon Reservoir, the only significant storage in the system is provided by <br />Pastorius Reservoir, an off-channel facility which provides regulation of. the deliveries under the <br />Florida Canal, It has a decreed capacity of 970 acre-feet. It is not a pan of the Florida Project and <br />its operation has not been included in the CROSS WRPM. <br /> <br />Irrigation return flows from the Group "A" ditches accrue back to the Florida River where <br />they are available for re-diversion by other downstream structures. A ponion of the irrigation <br />return flow from the Group "B" ditches returns to the Florida River upstream of some of the Group <br />"A" ditches, a ponion accrues to the Florida River downstream of the Group "A" ditches and a <br />ponion accrues directly to the Animas River. These return flow locations were determined using <br />the State Engineer's database and maps of the irrigated acreage in conjunction with the USGS <br />topographic contour maps. <br /> <br />17 <br />