WSP03555

• File Number: 8143.800
• Description: John Martin Reservoir - Water and Contracts
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 12/1/2000
• Title: Report of the Colorado State Engineer - Concerning Accounting of the Operations of an Offset Account in John Martin Reservoir for Colorado Pumping - 1998 -- Part 1 of 2
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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December 1, 2000

Report of the Colorado State Engineer

Offset Account Operations

November 1, 1999 to October 31, 2000

An Offset Account in John Martin Reservoir was authorized by the Resolution
Concerning an Offset Account in John Martin Reservoir for Colorado Pumping
dated March 17, 1997 ("Resolution") and by the Resolution Concerning an Offset
Account in John Martin Reservoir for Colorado Pumping As Amended March 30,
1998 ("Amended Resolution").

This report summarizes the operations conducted using the Offset Account for the
period November 1, 1999 through October 31, 2000 and has been prepared pursuant
to paragraph 11 of the Amended Resolution.

At 0000 hours, November 1, 1999 the Offset Account contained 1997.89 acre-feet.
From November 1, 1999 through October 31, 2000 there were deliveries to and
releases from the Offset Account as summarized in the tables below, On March 31,
2000, 500 acre-feet of fully consumable water was delivered to the Offset Account to
satisfy the Storage Charge prerequisite for using the account for another year. Copies
of the correspondence describing this delivery are included in Section 3.

The entire content of the Offset Account was spilled on one occasion during the
period of this report. On February 5, 2000 through February 7, 2000 the 1976.56 acre-
feet remaining in the Offset Account were spilled.

In Section 1, a monthly summary of the contents of the Offset Account is provided in
Table 1. A summary of the subaccounts of the Offset Account is provided in Tables A
through 8.2. The outline preceding the tables in Section 1 provides an explanation of
the purpose of each subaccount.

Section 2 of this report contains the daily accounting records, by month, for all
subaccounts in the Offset Account.

From November 1, 1999 through October 31,2000, there were three deliveries of
water to the Offset Account, including the delivery of 500 acre-feet of fully consumable
water to satisfy the Storage Charge. These deliveries are summarized in the following
table.