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<br />i:Jl; <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />3. Reservoir Operations <br /> <br />The planned operation of Turquoise lake for water year 1984 will <br />be to draw the reservoir down to allow storage of project imports, <br />Busk-Ivanhoe imports, and Homestake Project imports. Release from Turquoise <br />Lake will be made into Mt. Elbert Conduit at a rate to fill Twin Lakes and <br />then in 1 ate April and May to evacu ate the remai n i ng water necessary to <br />allOw the imported water to be stored. <br /> <br />The Homestake Project water will be imported to fill their contracted <br />storage space during April. <br /> <br />The Board of Water Works of Pueblo and High line Canal Company each own one-half <br />of the Busk-Ivanhoe imports. The High Line Canal Company water will be <br />stored in Turquoise Lake under contract. The Pueblo water will be bypassed <br />through Turquoise Lake. <br /> <br />The CF&I Steel Corporation stores all of the native inflow to Turquoise Lake <br />when they are in priority (maximum of 17,416 acre-feet). Of this, 3 ft3/s <br />stored from May 15 through September 15, under their California Gulch decree <br />of not to exceed 738 acre-feet, must be released from Turquoise Lake prior <br />to November 1. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Water released from Turquoi se lake, in excess of ei ther i nstream mi nimum <br />flow or flow to meet downstream senior rights along Lake Fork Creek and on <br />the Arkansas River above its confluence with lake Creek, will be diverted <br />into the Mt. Elbert Conduit. The water will flow through Mt. Elbert <br />Powerp 1 ant and then be released to the Arkansas Ri ver from Twi n lakes vi a <br />Lake Creek. <br /> <br />Table 11 and exhibit 19 show the proposed operation of Turquoise lake in <br />water year 1984. <br /> <br />E. Federal Fish Hatchery and Halfmoon Creek Diversion <br /> <br />The Federal Fish Hatchery near Leadville, Colorado, will be <br />supplied flow-through project water at a rate of up to 6.7 ft3/s as has been <br />done in past years. Th i s flow is released from Turquoi se Lake through Mt. <br />Elbert Conduit to the fish hatchery and then into the Arkansas River. The <br />flow is later stored, less appropriate transit losses, in Pueblo Reservoir. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />23 <br />