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<br />I :t- <br />...) <br /> <br />~ <br />~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br />The Aspen Reservoir, to be built with a capacity <br />of 28,000 acre-feet, is the facility which will accomplish <br />the objectives set forth in the Act. As a part of the <br />proj ect, it provides all of the replacement capacity <br /> <br />required and, in addition, will supply certain natural <br />shortages and contingent uses. <br />The replacement requirement represents the storage <br />capacity necessary to replace to the stream, from water <br />stored at times of surplus runoff, the amounts of water <br />which would be diverted by the rehabilitated Independence <br />Pass system and the Fryingpan-Arkansas collection system <br /> <br />at times when such diversions would not be possible <br /> <br />boeause of stream flows less than the demands at Cameo, <br /> <br />a critical point, just above the Grand Valley diversion. <br />The requirement to supply natural shortages for canals <br />at Aspen is the amount of storage necessary, in addition <br />to the above mentioned replacement capacity, to furnish <br /> <br />an ideal supply to those canals at times when natural <br /> <br /> <br />stream flow would be 0010111 the ideal requirements. <br /> <br />A recheck of the operation of this reservoir was <br /> <br />recently made by the engineering division of the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board. An analysis of the flows at <br />Aspen and Cameo was also made to estimate the amounts <br /> <br />of water which would be available in the Aspen Reservoir <br /> <br />to take care of the drought seasons of 1934 and 1954. <br />