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HUG . The planned operation of Turquoise Lake for water year 1989 will be to maintain the reservoir at or near capacity by the storage of Project imports, Busk-Ivanhoe imports, and Homestake Project imports. The Pueblo Board of Water Works and the City of Aurora each own one-half of the Busk-Ivanhoe imports. The Board's Water will either be bypassed through Turquoise Lake for storage in CleariCreek Reservoir (by exchan~e with native water) or for direct flow usage at Pueblo or be stored in their long-term storage space in Turquoise Lake. The City of Aurora water \Ii 11 be stored in their long-term storage space. The city of Colorado Springs can store all of the native inflow to Turquoise Lake when they are in priority (maximum of 17,416 acre-feet). Water released from Turquoi se Lake in exce~s of either ins tream mi n imum flow or flow to meet downstream senior rights along Lake Fork will be diverted into the ~It. Elbert Conduit. The water will flow through Mt. Elbert Powerplant and then be released to the Arkansas River from Twin Lakes via Lake Creek. The minimum .release into Lake Fork is 15 ft3/s, or natural inflow, whichever is less. Table 14 and exhibit 22 show the proposed operation of Turquoise Lake in water year 1989. . E. Federal Fish H~tct!.~and Halfmoon Creek Diversion The Federal Fish Hatchery near Leadvi lle, Colorado, wi 11 be supplied flow-through Project water at a rate of up to 6.7 ft3/s as has been done in past years. This flow is released from Turquoise Lake through Mt. Elbert Conduit to the fish hatchery and then into the Arkansas River. The flow is later stored, less appropriate transit losses, in Pueblo Reservoir. The planned operation of Halfmoon diversiori is to divert all the flow in Halfmoon Creek, to the maximum diversion capacity of 150 ft3/s, which is in excess of the downstream, call on Halfmoon Creek or the instream minimum flow. At times this diversion flow may be restri cted due to operat i ona 1 releases. from Turquoi se Lake into Mt. Elbert conduit. The diverted flow plus! the release will pass through Mt. Elbert Powerplant and will then be r~leased to the Arkansas River via Lake Creek. ,( F. ~_Lakes/Mt. Elbert,Forebay Twin Lakes/Mt. Elbert Forebay will be operated to maximize power generation. Twin Lakes will always: 1. maintain sufficient water in storage to be pumped into ~lt. Elbert. Forebay to allow 1 day of generation or 2. provide sufficient space in Twin Lakes to allow the 24 .