WSP01800

• File Number: 8149.100
• Description: Miscellaneous Small Projects and Project Studies - NRCS-Ft Lyon Canal Co Limestone Graveyard Creeks
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 2/1/1994
• Author: Gronning Engineering
• Title: Ft Lyon Canal Company Water Transfer Alternatives Study Appendix of Final Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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WATER RIGHT

Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Company

TOTAL ACRES - 50,000 to 56,000 acres

CASE NUMBER - See Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Co, v, City of Aspen, 193 Colo. 478,
568 p.2d 45 (1977) which affirmed the water court decree.

TOTAL MOVED
Aurora -
Pueblo -
Colorado Springs
Crowley -
Olney Springs -
Pueblo West
Sugar City -

Total Shares outstanding:
2,434,6 4.9%
11,476.1 23.1%
27,101.7 54,6%
62 0.001%
91.6 0,002%
5,732,4 11.5%
80 0.002%

49,588,965

% MOVED

- 94.1 %

ACREAGE DRIED UP TO DATE -The Twin Lakes water was used to supplement the
Colorado Canal shares used on the land, and removal of shares did not directly and immediately
result in any dxyup. However, because of shortage of the remaining supply from Colorado Canal,
some water was consolidated and some lands dried up. Change from irrigated row crops to
irrigated pasture was contemplated in the decree.

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Irrigators

TO - Cities listed above

DATE - Decree affirmed, 1977 At that time about 65% had been acquired by
municipalities. Colorado Springs acquired most of its shares in 1972. Pueblo West acquired shares
in 1970-1971. Aurora continues to acquire shares,

PRICE -Small numbers of Twin Lake shares have sold for as much as $10,000. Aurora
purchased shares in 1992 for $3500 per share. Colorado Springs purchased its shares for $1,500
per share in 1972. Pueblo West has recently offered to lease 4300 shares for between $40 and $60
for a ten one year periods to the Division of Wildlife, During the past two years all excess Pueblo
West shares were leased to irrigators and Aurora. Until 1989 Pueblo West had been unable to lease
all of its extra shares, The Pueblo Board of Water Works annually leases excess shares at auction
to irrigators and others.
One share is considered to yield, in an average year, 1 ac. ft. of transmountain water and
0.1 ac. ft. of native Arkansas River water. Native water yield for the system ranges from 10,000
ac. ft. yr to 125,000 ac. ft, yr. Gross transmountain imports are limited to 57,000 ac. ft, yr. on a
ten year average.

DECREED TERMS AND CONDITIONS -

Maximum 68,000 ac, ft. transmountain imports

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Ten year average limit of 570,000 on transmountain imports

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