WSP00691

• File Number: 8142.700
• Description: Trinidad Project - Annual Operating Plans and Reports
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 12/1/1996
• Author: US DoI BoR
• Title: Review of Operating Principles and Project Operations Final Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Operating Principles/Plan

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on November 21, 1995. Reclamation received Kansas' issues to be reviewed and their

recommended methodologies for conducting the review on November 17, 1995.

The District, Colorado, Kansas, Army COI1JS of Engineers (COI1Js) and Reclamation all

identified issues to be reviewed. The COI1JS' one issue to amend the operating principles to

allocate the excess storage capacity to the fishery or recreation pool and a provision for filling the

enlarged recreation pool was a common issue among all the parties. Other than the Corps, the

parties requested that the operations for delivery of stock water be reviewed. Colorado requested

that the operating p.rinciples be amended as recommended by the previous review and supported

the review requests of the District and the City of Trinidad.

Kansas requested a review of all hydrological operations to assure that (1) storage under

the Model right has been limited to 20,000 acre feet each year; (2) the practice of rollover has

been discontinued; (3) winter flows are stored under the Model storage right; (4) diversions to

Project lands have not exceeded the irrigation requirement; and (5) exchanges have not depleted

the inflow to John Martin ReseIVoir. Kansas also requested that the irrigated acreage be
reviewed.

The District identified 10 separate issues for review. Several of the issues would be more

appropriately reviewed in a review of the Purgatoire River ConselVancy District Operating

Criteria or a review of Contract No. 9-07-70-W0095 between Reclamation and the District. At

least three of the issues identified by the District involve methodologies for conducting the review

and not an issue to be reviewed. The one issue that had not been identified by the other entities

above is to review whether or not conditions (d) and (e) of House Document No. 325, 84th

Congress, 2nd Session, (HD. No. 325) could be implemented at this time. Reclamation agreed

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