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<br />1916 <br /> <br />reservoirs (FLCC bylaws art. II, see, 1; art. VI). Presumably, the FLCC would require that <br />use by any water bank would be subject to the same rules of use as those for the FLCC <br />shareholders, <br /> <br />Delivery of water from Adobe and Horse Creek Reservoirs to users would, in some <br />instances, require use of a portion of the FLC. Such use would be subject to the availability <br />of capacity, payment of ditch transit losses, and perhaps a monetary charge. Some transit <br />losses in the outlet channel would occur, Operational schemes, such as exchanges between <br />the reservoir outlet channel and the main headgates, are presented later in some detail. <br /> <br />B. Queen Reservoir (owned by Amity Mutual Irrigation Company): <br /> <br />Queen Reservoir can deliver only to the FLC and the Amity Canal. No wasteways currently <br />exist which would allow an efficient release of this water from the FLC or the Amity Canal <br />to the Arkansas River, Even if constructed, the most upstream point of delivery to the <br />Arkansas River would be at the mouth of Big Sandy Creek, This point on the Arkansas <br />River is below any foreseeable market for the water. Downstream irrigation use, either <br />directly or by well, is deemed an unlikely market because the cost of water bank water would <br />probably be too high. While there is always the possibility of new industrial use in <br />downstream towns, e.g, Holly or Granada, that would probably not be a large enough market <br />to justify use of Queen Reservoir for the water bank. <br /> <br />Moreover, Queen Reservoir suffers from very high ditch losses in the ditches leading from <br />the FLC to the reservoir, in the outlet ditches, and from evaporation because it is a shallow <br />reservoir. Also, release into Big Sandy Creek for delivery to the Arkansas River would result <br />in high transit losses, since Big Sandy Creek is in a broad porous alluvium. <br /> <br />C. Pueblo Reservoir (owned by the United States and operated by the Bureau of Reclamation <br />pursuant, in part, to contracts with the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District): <br /> <br />Pueblo Reservoir has a conservation capacity of 234,347 af and holds a very junior storage <br />priority. The reservoir cannot store native Arkansas River Basin water until John Martin <br />Reservoir conservation storage is full, or is predicted to fill shortly. When Pueblo Reservoir <br />stores under its priority and fills, water bank water would be forced out and lost under the <br />current spill priorities in the contract between the Southeastern District and the Bureau of <br />Reclamation, <br /> <br />Pueblo Reservoir generally stores transmountain water imported by the Fryingpan-Arkansas <br />Project, water stored under the decreed winter storage program 84 CW 179, and some water <br />stored by entities having storage contracts with the Bureau of Reclamation, Entities storing <br />water under contract which use the water within the boundaries of the Southeastern District <br />have a higher priority to store water in Pueblo Reservoir, and pay a lower price than entities <br />storing water for use outside the Southeastern District boundaries, <br /> <br />7-11 <br />