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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Page #2 <br /> <br />developments. However, in this regard reference is made <br />to a reported claim of a right to divert 30,000 a.f. <br />annually from the Blue River to the South Platte drainage <br />by means of a tunnel under Hoosier Pass. An investigation <br />should be made of such claim. <br /> <br />Summary Analysis <br /> <br />1. The Denver claim is for 1,600 c.f.s. of water <br />for direct flow and storage to be taken at or above the <br />Dillon Reservoir site without feeder canals intercepting <br />water naturally tributary to the Blue River below that site. <br />The priority date claimed for both direct flow and storage <br />is March 21, 1914, except that the priority date claimed <br />for Dillon Reservoir is October 1, 1941,. This claim con- <br />templates a total storage of 1,053,959 a.f.of which 252,678 <br />a.f. will be in Dillon reservoir, 266,281 a.f. by exchange <br />with certain reservoirs located in the South Platte drainage, <br />and 535,000 a.f. by storage in other reservoirs. <br /> <br />2. The claim of the South Platte Water Users Associ- <br />ation is for 3,300 c.f.s. of water for direct flow and <br />storage to be taken from the Blue River, Williams Fork and <br />Black Creek drainage areas above elevation 9,013 feet either <br />naturally or by intercepting feeder canals. The priority <br />date claimed for both direct flow and storage is October 27, <br />1942. This plan contemplates an unnamed amount of storage <br />of which 266,281 a.f. will be by exchange with reservoirs <br />located in the South Platte drainage. <br /> <br />3. In No. 1806 the prayer of the claim filed by the <br />United States asks for direct flow rights for power genera- <br />tion in the amount of 2000 c.f.s. In No. 1805 the prayer <br />asks for 1726 c.f.s. direct flow rights for power generation. <br />In each of these statements of claim the description of the <br />project is open to the construction that 2000 c.f.s. is <br />claimed for each of the proposed hydroelectric plants. It is <br />believed that the intent is to claim only a total of 1726 <br />c.f.s. for power generation, as that is stated to be the <br />maximum amount of water "already and hereafter to be used <br />in the generation of electric energy." United States claims <br />a priority for storage of 156,545 a.f. in Green Mountain <br />from the Blue River and Elliott Creek, a 185 c.f.s. feeder <br />canal being contemplated from Elliott Creek. As to priority - <br /> <br />~S..9./' <br />