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<br />0371 <br /> <br />2.11 <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />January, <br />February, <br />March, <br />April, <br />May, <br />June,' <br />July, <br />August, <br />Se ptember , <br /> <br />3,500 <br />3,200 <br />3,500 <br />3,500 <br />4,000 <br />4,200 <br />4,600 <br />4,400 <br />3,800 <br /> <br />Alternative 7. <br />Minimizing Ri sk <br />Water Rights <br /> <br />This alternative encourages the winter distribution of Ruedi Reservoir <br /> <br />2.1. 7 <br /> <br />Modified Municipal/Industrial Water Sales <br />to Wildlife and Recreation to Augment Junior <br /> <br />water based on augmented water sales to junior water rights. Eighty percent <br /> <br />of the water shortage in the Colorado River will occur in the months of <br /> <br /> <br />August, September and october with the assumed future demand of 433,000 acre- <br /> <br /> <br />feet (see Table 3.'5). This alternative decreases the overall level of augment, <br /> <br /> <br />sales by 44 percent from the Alternative 2 level of sales and then imposes a <br /> <br /> <br />25 percent reduction in the maximum water sales in the month of April through <br /> <br />August. The result is a maximum water sale under this alternative of 38,700 <br /> <br /> <br />acre-feet per year or a net reduction of 48 percent in the maximum augmented <br /> <br />sale from the sales level in Alternative 2. The level of augmented sales in <br /> <br /> <br />an average year is 18,000 acre-feet. Average demand in the month of August <br /> <br /> <br />through OCtober is 12,100 acre-feet or 67 percent of the average yearly <br /> <br /> <br />demand. ,Figure 2.7 shows typical charts of reservoir levels and instream <br /> <br /> <br />flows in the Fryingpan River. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />2.1.8 Alternative 8. Modified Municipal/Industrial Sales Minimizing <br /> <br />Risk to Fish, Wildlife and Recreation to Provide Sales on Demand <br /> <br />This alternative encourages the winter distribution of Ruedi Reservoir <br /> <br /> <br />water sale using an on-demand schedule. This alternative decreases the <br /> <br /> <br />overall level of sales on demand by 29 percent from the level of sales in <br /> <br /> <br />Alternative 3 and then imposes a 25 percent reduction on the sales during the <br /> <br />month of April through August. The result is an annual sale of 44,200 acre- <br /> <br /> <br />feet which is a 37 percent reduction compared to the maximum possible sales on <br /> <br />demand level in Alternative 3. The August through October sales level is <br /> <br /> <br />11,900 acre-feet or 27 percent of the total yearly sale. The monthly distri- <br /> <br /> <br />bution of water sales is as follows: <br />