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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />4 OPERATING PRINCIPLES, FRYINGPNi-ARKANSAS PROJECT <br /> <br />Conservation District shall, by wri~ten communication, advise the <br />Colorado State engineer that additional diversions can be made. <br />9. The respective decrees which may be or have been awarded to <br />the parties hereto as a part of the Fryingpan-Arkansas project and <br />Basalt project shall be administered by the proper officials of the <br />State of Colorado, in accordance with the applicable laws of the <br />State of Colorado, and with the following principles and procedures, <br />to wit: <br />(l) That the demand on the ,waters available under such de- <br />crees shall be allocated in the 'following sequence: <br />(a) For diversion to the Arkansas Valley through the <br />collection system and the facilities of the Fryingpan- <br />Arkansas project in an amount not exceeding an aggregate <br />of l20,OOO acre-feet of water in any year, but not to ex- <br />ceed a total aggregate of 2,352,800 acre-feet in any period <br />of 34 consecutive years reckoned in continuing progressive <br />series starting with the first full year of diversions, <br />both limitations herein being exclusive of Roaring Fork <br />exchanges as provided in (c) below, and exclusive of diver- <br />sions for the Busk-Ivanho~ decree; and with the further and <br />absolute limitation that in order to protect existing and <br />future beneficial uses of water in Western Colorado, in- <br />cluding recreational and fishing values, the State engineer <br />shall so regulate the transmountain diversions above re- <br />ferred to, to the end that no diversions shall be made <br />which will reduce the remaining aggregate streamflows to <br />less than either of the following minimum standards: <br />(i) The Fryingpan colle'ction system at the points of <br />diversion COllectively, exclusive of Lime Creek: ],5 c.f.s. <br />October 1 through March 3l; 30 c.f.s. April 1 through <br />September 30. <br />(ii) Near Norrie (immediately below the junction of <br />North Fork and Fryingpan River): 30 c.f.s. October 1 <br />through Barch 3l; 100 c.f.s. April 1 through April 30; <br />l50 c.f.s. ~lay 1 through May 3l; 200 c.f,s. June 1 through <br />June 30; lOO c.f.s. July l' through July 3l; 75 c.f.s. <br />August 1 through August 3li; 65 c.f.s. September 1 through <br />September 30. <br />In maintaining the above minimum standards, the project <br />diversions shalA be regulated, so far as is pranticable. <br />in such a manner that the North Fork of the Fryingpan <br />River, the Fryinp:pan River, and each of the tributaries of <br />those streams, shall contribute to the residual stream- <br />flows required by those minimum standards quantities of <br />water in proportion to their natural contributions. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br />