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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />-- <br />" . <br />.. <br />I <br /> <br />OC0880 <br /> <br />A list of Federal documents concerning the Qevelo?ment, <br /> <br />analysis and design of the project is included in the <br />Appendix. Notable among those are Volumes 1 and 2 of the <br />Irrigation Report, Trinidad Project, Colorado (Corps of <br /> <br />Engineers), Upper Arkansas River Basin, USBR Region 7, 1964. <br /> <br />The 1965 Model transfer decree, granted by the Las <br />Animas County District Court in Civil Action 19793, <br /> <br />addresses the transfer of the Model Reservoir storage right <br /> <br />and a change in use from winter direct flow to storage for <br />project ditches, and was the last obstacle to final design <br /> <br />and construction of the dam. Concerns of downstream water <br /> <br />users prompted inclusion in the decree of the language, <br /> <br />".. .the quantity of water occurring in the... purgatoire <br /> <br />River...below Van Bremer Arroya shall remain and be the <br /> <br />same, as determined by the State Engineer, during any period <br /> <br />of ten consecutive years reckoned in continuing progressive <br /> <br />series...as it would have been had the Model Reservoir Right <br /> <br />not been transferred to Trinidad Reservoir," (Civil Action <br /> <br />19793). Other conditions such as "Operating Principles - <br /> <br />Trinidad Dam and Reservoir Project" and the Arkansas River <br /> <br />Compact are included in the decree. <br /> <br />The Purgatoire River Water Conservanc~ District (PRWCD) <br />was formed in the early 1960's as the entity responsible for <br />repayment and operation of the project. Pursuant to the <br /> <br />1965 transfer decree, PRWCD controls water rights of 11 <br /> <br />-3- <br /> <br />......"""""""_......~--,""",.,. -.-<-...- <br />