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<br />101 <br /> <br />en <br />~ <br />.-l <br />CJ <br /> <br />Water Supply for the Proposed Yellow Jacket <br />Project on the White River in Colorado. <br /> <br />The filing, in 1959, of a proposed hydro power project <br /> <br />by the Rocky Mountain Power Company has raised some serious doubts <br /> <br />as to a conflict in water supply between this power project and the <br /> <br />Yellow Jacket Project proposed by the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation as <br /> <br />a participating project of the Upper Colorado River development plan. <br /> <br />The staff of the Colorado Water Conservation Board has <br /> <br />conducted a water supply study to determine whether a conflict does <br /> <br />/:!=f) <br />Q~' exist and if so, the nature and extent of the conflict. <br /> <br />The water supply study was complicated by the existence of <br /> <br />conditional decrees. It was necessary to make certain assumptions <br /> <br />with regard to these decrees in order to assign the demand on the <br /> <br />river imposed by existing and potential developments including the <br /> <br />two projects in question. The proposed development plans will use <br /> <br />all of the water available, so it was also necessary to evaluate the <br /> <br />fish flows required, in order to avoid serious damage to the fishing <br /> <br />resource. <br /> <br />Mr. Dick Moore of the staff of the State Department of Game <br /> <br />and Fish was contacted, and requested to furnish the C.W.C.B. staff <br /> <br />with estimates of minimum fish flow requirements. Mr. Moore advised <br /> <br />verbally that a minimum flow requirement, based on reconnaissance <br /> <br />surveys would be approximately 30 c.f.s. in each fork of the river <br /> <br />near Buford, or below the project works. This verbal estimate was <br />