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<br />I <br />I==- <br /><= <br />1=-.-. <br />C <br /> <br />winter storage shall accrue. to conservation storage. Con- <br />servation storage shall be released into the accounts specified in <br />Subsection II D beginning at the first request for release after <br />March 31 of account water by a Colorado Water District 67 ditch <br />or by Kansas or begiIming at 8:00 3.m. on April 7, whichever <br />OCcurs first. <br />B. Summer Storage Season- <br />(1) When a runoff event occurs during the summer storage <br />season, such that inflows into John Martin Reservoir are ex- <br />pected to exceed then existing irrigation requirements of the <br />ditches in Colorado Water District fr1 by at least 1,000 acre-reet, <br />then the gates on John Martin Reservoir shall be closed. com- <br />mencing conservation storage except for releases of account <br />water pursuant to Subsection II E, herein. <br />(2) The ditches in Colorado Water District 01 will be removed <br />from the Colorado priority system when the sum of the flows of <br />the Arkansas River at the Las Animas gaging station and the <br />Purgatoire River at the Las Animas gaging station, exclusive of <br />separate deliveries of other water under Section III, herein, <br />indicates that conservation storage will occur. <br />{3) All innows entering said reservoir during a period of <br />conservation storage in the swnmer storage season shall accrue <br />to conservation storage. Conservation storage shall be released <br />into the accounts specHied in Section II D beginning at the nrst <br />request for release of account water by a Colorado Water <br />District 67 ditch or by Kansas or beginning 48 hours after <br />commencement of conservation storage, whichever occurs <br />first. <br />C. Exhaustion of Conservation Storage- <br />(I) For the purposes of Compact Article V F, the con- <br />servation pool shall be deemed exhausted whenever con- <br />servation storage has been completely released into the ac- <br />counts. When this occurs, Colorado shaH administer the decreed <br />rights of water users in Colorado Water District 67 as against <br />each other and as against all rights now or hereafter decreed to <br />water users diverting upstream from John Martin Dam on the <br />basis of relative priorities in the same manner in which their <br />respective priority rights were administered before John Martin <br />Reservoir began to operate and as though John Martin Dam had <br />not been constructed. However, during these times, inflows <br />shall, to the extent practical, be measured and released from <br />the reservoir without temporary storage or averaging nows, and <br />conservation storage may not be accwnulated nor may storage <br />in the accounts be increased except by deliveries of other water <br />under Section III, herein. <br />(2) Administration in Colorado under decreed priorities shall <br />he initiated so that ditches upstream from John Martin <br />Reservoir shall deliver to the priorities of Colorado Water <br />District 67 ditches water at the Arkansas River at the Las <br />Animas gaging station coincident with the exhaustion of the <br />conservation storage when taking the now of all waters, in- <br />cluding that of the Purgatoire River, into appropriate con. <br />side ration. <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />1- - - - - - - <br /> <br />-41- <br />