WSP03609

• File Number: 8407
• Description: Platte River Basin - River Basin General Publications
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 7/11/1984
• Author: Joe Tom Wood
• Title: Tunnel Vision - An Analysis of River Call Data in the South Platte River Basin
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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atea? That is, have the .conditions at the time of th,

appropriation" changed?

o Have existing water rights, located downstream from the

Metropolitan Denver area become dependent upon the intro.

duction of these developed waters?

o Where do dominion and control over the reuse(s) and/or

s~ccessive use(s) of these developed waters cease?

o will the Denver Water Board, and perhaps other entities,

continue to make exchanges on the basis of the return

flows from these developed waters? Will the municipal

developers of these waters allow, or continue to allow,

aQgmentation plans proposed by others to claim credits

for augmentation waters based on the introduction of the'

developed waters by the municipalities? When will the

municipalities fully claim such waters for their own

benefi t?

o Just how much of the imported and consumptive use waters'

m~y be fully used, ~, used to extinction?

o HOW much native South platte River Basin water is

available for exchange on the basis of the imported and

consumptive use water? Where, when, and how large are

these limitations, particularly in the cumulative, rive~

basin sense?

o Are the increased supplies the result of more gentlemen

farmers and water rights speculators in the upper South

Platte River basin taking land out of irrigation and no~

utilizing the rights on an interim basis?

o H,as Nebraska, under the South platte River compact,

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