WSP04328

• File Number: 8126.200
• Description: Arkansas River Coordinating Committee - Bylaws - Rules - Guidelines
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 1/1/1985
• Author: P.O. Abbott
• Title: Description of Water-Systems Operations in the Arkansas River Basin - Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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CON TEN T S

TABLES

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Table 1. Developed sources of raw-water supply for the city of Colorado
Springs, 1982------------------------------------------------ 12
2. Conduits in the area------------------------------------------- 58
3. Tunnels in the area-------------------------------------------- 59
4. Major ditches in the area-------------------------------------- 60
5. Reservoirs in the area-------------------------~--------------- 64

GLOSSARY

Water-resource terms associated with this report are defined in the
GLOSSARY and are italicized. Additional terms used by irrigators, water
commissioners, water managers, hydrologists, and others with water-related
occupations in the Arkansas River basin in Colorado also appear in the
GLOSSARY.

absolute decree (absolute water right).--A decree is conditional, as. long as
the facility used to store, divert, or otherwise exercise the right, is under
construction, and until the time the full quantity of the decreed water has
been stored or diverted. Any time after the full decree has been stored or
diverted and placed to beneficial use, the holder of the decree can go to
court and have the decree made absolute, in total or in increments: for
example, if after the first year of storage, a reservoir had been filled to
some part of the capacity of its conditional decree, an absolute decree for
that quantity of storage can be obtained.

active pool.--See reservoir space allocation.

adjudication date.--The date of the court action on which the right to use of
the water is legally acknowledged. Three dates are important in the determi-
nation of basin priority of a water right: (1) The appropriation date when
the initial work toward utilizing the water was begun; (2) the adjudication
date, when the decree was granted by the court; and (3) the date of the
previous adjudication. Consideration of the last date is necessary, as all
rights must have an equal opportunity to adjudicate; in the past, courts in
some areas of the Arkansas River basin adjudicated at different times from
those in other areas of the basin. This is no longer a problem, as water
rights are now adjudicated in one Water Court.

alternate point of diversion.--A change in decree must be obtained to divert
from a point other than that described in the decree. In recent years, wells
located in the alluvial aquifer commonly have been made alternate points of
diversion for surface-water rights.

appropriation.--"...the application of a specified part of the waters of the
State to a beneficial use pursuant to the procedures described by law..."
(Radosevich and others, 1975). The term fully appropriated means that there
are enough adjudicated water rights along the particular reach of stream to
account for all water in the stream, under normal conditions.

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