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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Water Rights Located Within WSA <br /> <br />Cross Mountain Penstock and Pipeline (conditional) - T6N R98W, Sec. 23, NW SW; <br />2,200 cfs - 1975 adjudication and 3100 cfs - 1979 adjudication; all beneficial <br />uses.. <br /> <br />Cross Mountain Reservoir (conditional) - T6N R98W, Sec. 23, NW SW; 142,000 acre <br />feet - 1974 adjudication; 66,000 acre feet - 1979 adjudication; 125,500 acre feet <br />- 1981 adjudication; all beneficial uses. <br /> <br />Water Rights Located Daomstream of WSA <br /> <br />(to confluence with Green River) <br /> <br />Lily Park Pump - T6N R98W, Sec. 19, SW SW; 36.67 ch; 1894 adjudication; <br />irrigation use. <br /> <br />Haystack Pump - T6N R102W, Sec. 17, NW NW; 6.7 cfs; 1982 adjudication; irrigation <br />use. <br /> <br />Studebaker Pump - T6N R102W, Sec. 18, SE NE; 2.0 cfs; 1982 adjudication; <br />irrigation use. <br /> <br />Yampa River Buffalo Gulch Pipeline (conditional) - T6N R99W, Sec. 26, NE SE; <br />100.0 cfs; 1980 adjudication; all beneficial uses. <br /> <br />State of Colorado InstrelUll Flow Rights Wit;JJin WSA <br /> <br />None <br /> <br />Pattern of Water Use <br /> <br />Water Availability - The Division of Water Resources considers the Yampa River <br />to be less than fully appropriated. In the unlikely event that all conditional <br />water rights in the basin are made absolute, the Yampa River would be considered <br />overappropriated. <br /> <br />Water Right Priorities - The Juniper Project is considered to be the controlling <br />right in the Yampa River watershed because its conditional water rights claim <br />approximately 75% of the available water. To allow water development and use to <br />proceed in the absence of this project, the Colorado River Water Conservation <br />District has signed agreements which subordinate the Juniper Project priority to <br />certain junior water rights. These agreements, and the current basin-wide pattern <br />of consuming less water than decreed, allows diversions to operate without active <br />administration of priorities. <br /> <br />Diversions - Current diversions throughout the watershed consume approximately <br />10% of the average annual flow of the river. (Shen, et al, 1985.) Because of <br />this level of use, Colorado delivers more water to the State of Utah than is <br />required by the terms of the Upper Colorado River Compact. <br /> <br />Land Status Within and UpstrelUll of WSA <br /> <br />A significant percentage of the lands upstream of the WSA are privately owned, <br />especially along the main stem of the Yampa River in the Craig-Hayden-Steamboat <br />Springs vicinity. A large area of lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service is <br />located around the eastern perimeter of the watershed, and provides a high <br />percentage of watershed's runoff. Lands managed by the BLM consist of scattered <br />tracts in the western portion of the watershed and large tracts along the Yampa <br />River west of Craig. <br /> <br />72 <br />