WSP04343

• File Number: 7630.325
• Description: Wild and Scenic-Gunnison River-Curecanti Unit
• State: CO
• Basin: Gunnison
• Water Division: 4
• Date: 12/1/1986
• Author: WBLA inc
• Title: Gunnison-Curecanti-Curecanti Instream Flow Water Rights Study
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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diversions under a 1913 decree (1901 appropriation date) and power

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diversions under a 1982 decree (1981 appropriation date).

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Taylor Park Reservoir was modelled as a 1941 storage decree (1904

appropriation date) with a live decreed capacity of 106,200 acre feet out

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of a total decreed capacity of 111,260 acre feet. Blue Mesa was modelled

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as a storage decree of 952,202 acre feet. This represents a first fill

decreed amount of 940,755 acre feet, less 111,255 acre feet of dead

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storage, plus a refill decreed amount of 122,702 acre feet. The four Blue

Mesa storage decrees of interest and the derivation of the amount of the

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storage decree for the model are shown in Table 3:

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Table 3: Blue Mesa Storage Decrees

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Water Decree
District Date
62 1960
62 1968
59 1961
59 1965
62 1968

Appropr i at i 01'.
Date

Decreed
Amount (af)

Modelled
Amount (af)

1957
1957

939,204
1.551'
940,755
939,204
1.551.
940,755
122,7021.2

940,755
+ 122.702

1959
1959

1957

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TOTAL
Dead Storage

1, 063, 457
- 111. 255
952,202

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Previously decreed to Crystal Reservoir
. Enlargement subsequently decreed, but w,th relation back to 1959
appropriation date
. Refill. Only decreed in Water District 62

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