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<br />l; <br />." <br /> <br />., <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />- 2 - <br /> <br />decrees from Mcqueary, Jones, Bobtail and Steelman Creeks and tributaries with <br /> <br />a limt at any one time of 214 cubic feet per second, dated July 4, 1921, with <br />a conditional decree of the same date to expand to a total of 620 cubic feet <br /> <br />per second. <br /> <br />A concrete arch dam about 70 feet high was constructed on the Williams <br /> <br />Fork, in Which storage began in April 1939. The capacity of the reservoir was <br /> <br />5,120 acre feet until it was increased in 1942 to about 7,000 acre feet by the <br /> <br />addition of radial gates at the spillway. There is an absolute decree for <br /> <br />6,623 acre feet, under date of November 10, 1935, with a conditional decree of <br /> <br />the sarne date to expand to 93,637 acre feet. <br /> <br /> <br />The Jones Pass t1:nnel has diverted an average of 6,400 acre feet since <br /> <br />diversion started, and the reservoir has been used to replace diversions by <br /> <br />both the Hoffat and the Jones Pass tunnels. <br /> <br />Recently, an amended filing on the Williams Fork Reservoir was ac- <br /> <br />cepted in the State Engineer's office under date of February 27, 1956. In <br /> <br />this filing it is stated that the reservoir shown therein is exactly the same <br />as the reservoir shown on the filing No. 16051 mentioned above, but that state- <br /> <br />ments in the amended filing ,Till show a different estimated cost and additional <br /> <br />purposes for which the structure "rill be used. An addition to the claim set <br /> <br />out in the original filing was <f -'f " "for the further purpose of filling <br /> <br />and refilling said reservoir throughout the year". ,lith regard to the use of <br /> <br />the reservoir, the statement in the amended filing did not connect the stream <br /> <br />regulation to just the ,Iilliams Fork and the Jones Pass tunnel, but extended the <br /> <br />connection to "transmountain tunnels or ditches constructed or to be constructed <br /> <br />through or over the Continental Divide, betHeen the .'latGrshed of the Colorado <br /> <br />River and the watershed of the South Platte River, and in connection l,uth re- <br /> <br />0754 <br />