WSP05984

• File Number: 8149.911
• Description: Miscellaneous Small Projects and Project Studies - SE Needs Assessment and PSOP
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 4/19/2001
• Author: PSOP Implementation
• Title: Final PSOP Implementation Committee Report Addendum to Preferred Storage Options Plans Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Final PSOP Implementation Committee Report
Southeastern Colorado Water Activity Enterprise
April 19, 2001

Section 4 - Use of Enterprise Water
Management Storage

The Enterprise Water Management Storage (EWMS) will be a part of enlarged Project
facilities and/or within existing non-Project facilities. Each participant in the enlargement
project will be obligated to fund the development of storage space equivalent to 115 percent
of their individual storage needs. This additional 15 percent of storage space shall be
designated as EWMS. The final amount of EWMS developed will be determined by actual
participation in the enlargement project, and the storage developed could be more or less than
7,500 acre-feel. Plans for additional EWMS will be developed as alternative funding
mechanisms are determined.

Priorities for the use of Enterprise Water Management Storage will be guided by the
following outline:

I. Temporary Storage Contracts for agricultural and municipal/domestic users. (7,500 AF)

1.1. 5,000 acre-feet for improved management of Winter Water. Available as dedicated
storage space into which Winter Water spills at Pueblo Reservoir could be stored for
later use by direct flow participants of the Winter Water Storage Program. In the
event that sufficient conservation space becomes available at Pueblo Reservoir in a
year when Winter Water has spilled, Winter Water stored in EWMS would be re-
stored in the original Winter Water accounts. All Winter Water stored in EWMS is
subject to terms and conditions of the Winter Water Decree (84 CW 179).

1.2.2,500 acre-feet for annual If & When storage contracts for the storage of non-Project
Water by municipal/domestic entities and agricultural users without a storage
allotment contract, and based upon need as determined by the Board of Directors of
the EnterPrise.

1.3. The entire 7,500 acre-feet of EWMS may be used on an If & When available basis
by both agricultural and municipal/domestic users, but the direct flow Winter Water
applicants shall have the first right to use 5,000 acre-feet reserved for this purpose.

1.4. If & When storage contracts for EWMS shall be subject to spill whenever the
District's 2000 East Slope Enlargement Water Rights are in priority.

1.5. Unused storage space will be available to provide storage for water banking in the
Arkansas Valley under terms yet to be determined.

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