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<br />operating procedures for Green Mountain Reservoir (Senate <br />Document 80). The purpose for the 1983 revisions was "to <br />quantify the perfected uses of water dependent upon the reservoir <br />and to provide for the orderly disposition of water remaining in <br />the reservoir". The new operating procedure calls for the <br />division of the original 100,000 a.f. power pool into what may be <br />termed a "committed" and "uncommitted" pool" The "committed" <br />pool preserves 66,000 a.f. (in addition to the original 52,000 <br />a.f.), free of charge, to meet water rights which were perfected <br />as of October 15, 1977, (66,000 a.f. is the amount of water which <br />was needed during 1977, the base dry year, to satisfy all <br />perfected rights). <br /> <br />The "uncommitted" pool of 34,000 a. f. is to be made <br />available to other water users in the basin on an exchange basis <br />by means of water service contracts. This new revised operating <br />procedure was published in December, 1983, and as of October, <br />1984, 24 formal requests for water have already been made <br />totalling 16,800 a.f. In addition, 250 a.f. has been set aside <br />for small water users in Summit County and an additional 5000 <br />a.f, to protect some 800 small water rights (15 - 30 gpm) <br />~,a.c3juct!.?f'!,Prl~flJIlC€1977. " ., <br /> <br />. ------ -----.---. ------------ <br />.c=:'-~=;~c,;;,~:~;t~~~~e~hJ?~ri'i:bh~ ctl.civ-e'!>Ei'~~.:;ra fsw''Sc>'f_-a~ ~ <br />feasibiH'tY O~t:-h-"LS =p1cin include; . <br /> <br />regardi-ng the <br /> <br />1) Whether there would be sufficient water supply to meet <br />all requests in dry years, <br /> <br />2) Would water sales by exchange impact other vested water <br />rights within the basin, and, <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />3) Whether Denver would be able to continue making its <br />Williams Fork exchange if water was diverted above <br />Dillon Reservoir. <br /> <br />At the same time the Bureau of Reclamation was putting <br />together the revised operating plan, the Vail Valley Consolidated <br />Water District was developing a plan to meet its own future water <br />needs. This plan has since developed into a major water exchange <br />proposal. Formally called the Green Mountain Exchange, this <br />proposal was first pUblicized in April, 1982. It proposes <br />trading billions of gallons of water in storage rights between <br />the Denver Water Board, Colorado Springs, Aurora, the Bureau of <br />Reclamation, and the Vail Water District, and would work <br />something like this: <br /> <br />Denver, Aurora and Colorado Springs would build a new <br />350,000 a.f. reservoir near Wolcott (where the Eagle and Colorado <br />Rivers meet). Denver and Aurora would then exchange an estimated <br />66,000 a.f. of storage rights in Wolcott Reservoir for an equal <br /> <br />-3- <br />