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<br />l <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />PROPOSED <br />~lAT2R ALLOCATI G~r AND l.l<;NJ>.CLr-1ENT ?LAi'J <br />BEAR CREE~ LAKE, COLORADO <br /> <br />OCTODER 1984 <br /> <br />IN'I'ROnUCTION <br /> <br />This Water Allocation and Management Plan has been drafted in order to <br />present a reasonable agenda for storage and use? of wJ.ter in Bear" Creek <br />La.ke if such space is determined to be available. To date, efforts to <br />store water in the facility have failed due to a lack of consensus, among <br />Fote:1tial wat.e:r users of the. facility, reqarding sto:L3.ge allocation and use <br />of Bear Creex Lake water. It is the intent or this draft propose:!. t~at <br />cOllsensus can be reached if a reasonable plan is developed whereby all <br />pa:::-tie5 benefit. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND <br /> <br />Construction of Bear Creek Luke besan on October 29, 1973 and was co~plctcd <br />J;,;ly 19, 1977. 'T'he facility has a drainage area or 236 square mil~s, -3.:1d a <br />IT.<.lxir~urn desig!"! pool of 74,970 acre-feet. Currently, d con.servutior. pool of <br />1,990 acre-feet is mai:ltClineJ.. The project W2S c1.uthorL.::ec ut an esti!i12.t(2,':;' <br />cost of >32,314,000. <br /> <br />For several years, discussions have been held regardir:g the availablii ty of <br />excess storage space in Bear Creek Lake. Entities Idhich have expres:3'2d u:l <br />ir.tere.et in acquiring space in addition to the Central Colorado Nater <br />Conservancy District include the Town of t:lorrison, Genesee Water and <br />S,::.ni tation District, ~1t. Carbon Water and Sanitation Dist,;:,,-ict, City of <br />La~e~cod, Ir.dian Hills Water District, and the Evergreen Metropolitan lv~ter <br />~nd Sanitation District. <br /> <br />\;ATER AVAIT,ABILITY <br /> <br />Althouqh a comprehensive study or water availability at the reservoir has. <br />not been completed, an analysis was conducted by the U. S. Army Corps of <br />Engineers in the mid-1970's .and by the Centra-l. Colorado vlater Conservancy. <br />Di3trict in 1383. Figure 1 presents information .developed by Hesou!:."ce <br />CJnsul tants, Inc. of Fort Collins for the Central Colorado t'IQ"cer Ccr:se:r- <br />vancy District regarding water availability in Bear Creek Lake, by month, <br />r"r the period 1960-1981. <br /> <br />Of the 252 cor:secutive months analyzed, some water ....]..18 <br />months, or 58 percent of the time. One-thousand acre-feet <br />stoP-old almost 36 percent of tr..e tirne. He.....;ever, there \...1s <br />p~ricd with only one month showing available water and that <br /> <br />avai lable ir. 146 <br />would have been <br />also a 24-~,onth <br />quantity was <br />