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<br />-i ( <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />I' <br /> <br />6 <br /> <br />In general. Green Mountain water releases are used to replace junior water <br />diversions when one of these senior water rights is placing a call on the <br />river. Junior water users located above Dillon Reservoir in Summit County <br />must provide augmentation water for the Denver Water Department's Dillon <br />Reservoir and Roberts Tunnel diversion system in addition to the downstream <br />Shoshone and Cameo calls. Water users below Glenwood Canyon need only provide <br />water for the downstream Cameo calls and other senior downstream calls. <br /> <br />On December 22. 1983. an operating policy was established which set aside <br />66.000 af of water out of the 100,000 af power pool to meet the demands of <br />historic agriculture and municipal beneficiaries of Green Mountain water. The <br />remaining yield from the 100,000 af pool. 28.800 af of water, would be <br />available for sale under long-term contracts. In May 1984, the Colorado River <br />Water Conservation District issued a request for potential contracts for water <br />from Green Mountain Reservoir. In response to this request, the River <br />District received responses from 29 potential agencies which expressed <br />interest in contracting for water from Green Mountain Reservoir. Table 2 <br />summarizes the requests received for contract water from Green Mountain <br />Reservoir. Snowmaking and municipal/domestic requests represented <br />approximately 20 percent and 22 percent of the identified requests. <br />respectively. Irrigation represented about 6 percent and industrial (mostly <br />oil shale), about 52 percent of the total requests. <br /> <br />Table 2. Summary of Green Mountain water sales requests as presented in the <br />Green Mountain Biological Assessment (Reclamation, 1985). <br /> <br />---------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br /> <br />Total identified requests <br /> <br />Volume requested <br />by category in average, <br />annual af per year <br /> <br />% of <br />Total <br /> <br />---------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br /> <br />Total snowmaking 3,467.00 19.8 <br />Total municipal 3,874.85 22.2 <br />Total irrigation 986 . 25 5.6 <br />Total i ndustri a 1 9.164.00 52.4 <br /> Total: 17,492.10 <br />Total Colorado River 10,334.00 59.1 <br />Total Fraser River 940.00 5.4 <br />Total Blue River (below Dillon) 1,404.00 8.0 <br />Total Upper 81ue River 2,888.00 16.5 <br />Total Eagle River 1.926.10 11.0 <br /> Total: 17.492.10 <br /> <br />Additional Requests: <br />About 212 af Summit County small future users <br />About 5000 af To protect small users with diversions between 1977 <br />and 1984. <br /> <br />Approximate Grand Total: 22,704 af per year <br /> <br />---------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br />