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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.- 4' ., <br />, .'t1.t. <br /> <br />BASALT PROJECT <br /> <br />HATER SUPPLY <br /> <br />Surface runoff and ground water draining from pro,iect lands and <br />adjacent areas as a result of project irrigatioll in the Cattle Creek <br />area would appear principally in established. drainage channels and be <br />available for project reuse downstream. 'l'his return flot, was estimated <br />to approximate 30 percent of the diversions made and was distributed on <br />an assumed monthly pattern. It was estimated that 1}0 percent of the <br />return flow would be available for reuse within a month following the <br />irrigation application, 30 percent during the second month, 20 percent <br />the third month, and 10 percent during the fourth month. <br /> <br />Hater Rights <br /> <br />Water rig~ts on project streams are of record in the office of the <br />Colorado State Engineer and in the office of the Division Engineer, <br />Division 5, Glenwood Springs, Colo. Rights have been established for <br />more water then is normally available in the streams so that the junior <br />rights receive little or no water except in the high runoff season. In <br />project studies it was not considered necessary to bypass water from <br />project streams for downstream rights on Roaring Fork or Colorado River <br />as these rights were considered to be satisfied by water from other <br />sources inclUding water made available under the provisions of Senate <br />Document 80, 75th Congress, 1937. <br /> <br />A conditional water right for the Basalt project with a priority <br />date of July 29, 1957, has been decreed to the Colorado River Fater Con- <br />servation District pursuant to an application filed by the district. <br />The right covers the following quantities of water. <br /> <br />Ruedi Reservoir <br />Fryingpan River (conservation) <br />Fryingpan River (fiSh flOW) <br />Cattle Creek <br />Coulter Creek <br />Sopris Creek <br /> <br />140,697.3 acre-feet <br />400 second-feet <br />50 second-feet <br />170 second-feet <br />170 second-feet <br />30 second-feet <br /> <br />This right was acquired for a project plan formulated by the Con- <br />servation District that differs in some respects from the plan of this <br />report. The amounts of water covered by the right would be adequate <br />for the report plan, however. <br /> <br />The water exchanges required for full project operation are permit- <br />ted by COlorado law and, with anticipated cooperation of present and <br />potential water users, could be agreed upon. <br /> <br />2d <br />