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. 31 . thOl storage of the increased Fort Collins return flOl-TS under the plains storage rights. This increase was determined as the difference between the historic diver~ sion to storage of 76,500 acre-feet per year (Col 1, Ta.ble 6) and the total diversion to storage under the anticipated combined operation of 81,000 acre-feet per . year (Col 9, Table 6) 7--~------~------------------~ 4,500 AF!.Yr 3--Eva,pora.tion savings. The abandonment and diminished use of some plains reservoirs due to the consolidation vill reduce the evaporation and seepage losses by an estimated 2,400 acre-feet a year. This rough estiL1flte of saving was assumed to occur each year and has not been sufficiently defined to include in any operation studies ---~---------------------------------------- 2,400 AF/Yr Tota11fater developed by the consolidation, capacity replacement, and transfer of plains storage rights -------------------------------------------13,000 AF/Yr . The estiLated historic operation of the storage decrees in the plains reservoirs is summarized in Table 6. The anticipated combined operation of the storage decrees in the consolidated storage ~n the unit reservoirs and in the remaining plains reservoirs is also sUllmarized in Table 6. The average annual release of the water stored under the trans- ferred decrees from Grey Mountain Reservoir is 33,100 acre-feet and the averl1ge annual release from the remaining plains reservoirs is 37,100 acre-feet, giving a combined annual release of 70,200 acre- feet. The increased average annual release over the historic release of 59,600 acre-feet is 10,600 acre-feet. The water savings realized by the evaporation and seepage reduction of 2,400 acre- feet per year vouJ.d be in addition to this increased release, giving a total ,nater developed by the consolidation of 13,000 acre-feet per year as indicated in Table 6. The Carriage Lo~ It was assumed in these hydrologic studies that the irrigation releases from storage at Grey MOUJ1tain Reservoir vould be reduced by a carriage loss estiL1flted at 10 percent of the release. This loss applies to the releases from the plains reservoir consolidation at Grey Mountain Reservoir of 33,100 acre-feet per year(Co1. 5, Table 6) and to the 6,100 acre-feet per year of stored surplus