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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />lO~j <br /> <br />B. <br /> <br />Name of Structure: <br /> <br />Turquoise Reservoir Enlargement (Sugar Loaf Dam) <br /> <br />c. <br /> <br />Description of Existing Structure; <br /> <br />I. Location - Legal Description: <br /> <br />The intersection of Sugar Loaf Dam axis and Lake Fork Creek, a point whence the <br />Northwest comer of Section 16, Township 9 South, Range 80 West of the 6th P.M., <br />bears North 440 46' 18" East a distance of 10,344.35 feet. Said reservoir inundates <br />all or pOitions of Section 7, 8, 17, Ig, 19 and 20, Township 9 South, Range 80 <br />West of the 6th P.M" and Section 10, II, 12, 13, 14 and 15, Township 9 South, <br />Range 81 West of the 6th P.M. <br /> <br />2. Decrees: <br /> <br />Turquoise Reservoir was decreed in Civil Action No. 5141, Chaffee County <br />District Court, on July 9, 1969, with an appropriation date of February 10, 1939 <br />(priority No, A-92C), The decree was modifled in Case No. SOCW6 (Water <br />Division 2) on October 23, 1980 (amended to correct clerical error on Apri129, <br />1'981), to conform to the reservoir as built. The conditional portion of the water <br />right has been maintained through a series of diligence proceedings, most recently <br />Case No, 95CW91 (Water Division 2). <br /> <br />3. Storage Volume of Current Capacity: <br /> <br />The current decreed and existing capacity is 129,432 acre-feet, plus a right to refill. <br />Of the decreed amounts, only the right to refill remains conditional. <br /> <br />4. Height cfD3.411: <br /> <br />135 feet <br /> <br />5. Surface Area of Existing Reservoir <br /> <br />1,789 acres <br /> <br />-2- <br />