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<br />42 <br /> <br />downstream. This rule now applies to native water and to foreign water <br />brought into the basin prior to 1969. At that time, the water law was <br />clarified to allow imported water to be captured and reused, provided it <br />could be identified and maintained under control of the original user. <br /> <br />4.4 Reuse of Imported Water <br />The legal right to capture and reuse imported water, where vested <br />claims have not already been established, has opened new avenues for <br />improving the effectiveness of water use. For example, the City of Fort <br />Collins impor.ts annually around 4,000 acre-feet from the North Platte <br />River Basin, into storage at the head of the Poudre River Basin (Joe <br />Wright Reservoir). An irrigation company, Water Supply and Storage <br />Company (WSS), imports foreign water from the Colorado River Basin into <br />storage also at the Poudre headwaters (Long Draw Reservoir). In order <br />to reuse as much of this imported water as possible,the two worked out <br />an exchange plan enlisting the cooperation of a third water user, the <br />North Poudre Irrigation Company (NP). The plan is diagrammed in Fig 4.1. <br />.Fort Collins owns water in Horsetooth Reservoir which is del ivered <br />to WSS through the river (4581 AF). WSS credits Fort Collins with an <br />equal volume in Long Draw Reservoir (the first exchange). Now Fort <br />Collins owns 4581 AF of reusable foreign water. That water from Long <br />Draw Reservoir pl us 3055 AF of reusable foreign water al ready owned by <br />Fort Collins in Joe Wright Reservoir is now delivered to NP through the <br />river. In turn, NP credits Fort Collins with an equal volume of water <br />it owns in Horsetooth Reservoir (the second exchange). <br /> <br />,,' <br />