WSP06093

• File Number: 8543.200
• Description: Projects in the Closed Basin
• State: CO
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 3/1/1989
• Title: Closed Basin Division Operating Criteria
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

District which provides for the temporary delivery of project salvaged water to

the refuge and the habitat area in those years in which there is not sufficient

water to fully sati sfy the purposes of bott! paragraphs (1) and (2) of thi s sub-

secti on.

(3) To apply to the reduction and elimination of any accumulated

deficit in deliveries by Colorado as is determined to exist by the Rio Grande

Compact Commission under article VI of the Rio Grande compact at the end of the
compact water years in which the Secretary first determines the project to be
opera ti ona 1 .

Note: It appears that the spills of Elephant Butte Reservoir in 1985, 1986,

1987, and 1988 have resulted in a situation that may eliminate Priority (3) from

further consideration.

(4) For irrigation or other beneficial uses in Colorado:

Provided that no water shall be delivered until agreements between the United

States and water users in Colorado, or the RGWCD acting for them, have been exe-

cuted providing for the repayment of such costs as in the opinion of the

Secretary are appropriate and within the abil ity of the users to pay and for

payment of all the cost of operation and maintenance which are allocable to the
production of this priority for water.

NOTE: Reclamation will be the responsible agency for the development of

such agreements ana the Albuquerque Projects Office will be the point of con-

tact for initializing water sales contracts.

B. Requests for Water Deliveries

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Requests for project water deliveries should be handled by the RGWCD with

the concurrence of the Colorado DWR. Thus, a request for delivery at Alamosa NWR

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