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<br />.;. <br /> <br />\ <br /> <br />application and the NECO change application <br />were all filed in 1986. Of the three competing <br />applications for additional use of water in the <br />Taylor River, the Upper Gunnison River <br />Water Conservancy District application claims <br />the earliest appropriation date. That proposal <br />remains an application before the Division IV <br />Water Court. Aurora's proposal includes an <br />augmentation reservoir which could offset <br />injury to downstream irrigation rights, if not <br />the hydro-electric power rights. <br /> <br />The NECO-Arapahoe County application is in <br />serious jeopardy as a result of the Division IV <br />Water Court's Summary Judgment that it was <br />speculative. The Colorado Supreme Court <br />would have to reverse the Water Court's <br />determination that the application was <br />speculative if this application is to be <br /> <br />LOCATION MAP SHOWING GENERALIZED <br />ROUTE OF TRANS BASIN EXPORT <br /> <br />GRANO JUNCTION <br />o <br /> <br />/~ <br />~ '\ <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />------. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br /> <br />DIV 4 <br /> <br />\ <br /> <br />Morrow <br />Porn' "". <br /> <br />revitalized. Arapahoe County's 1988 refiling on <br />the same project would be the most junior of <br />several competing proposals in the Taylor <br />River Basin. In this author's opinion, a 1988 <br />decree would only be meaningful if the more <br />senior applications did not proceed. <br /> <br />The Taylor River represents a limited <br />resource. Three applicants, two proposing to <br />export water and one proposing to increase <br />in-basin use for recreation and fishery, are <br />competing for this limited resource. Senior <br />irrigation water rights within the Gunnison <br />Basin have already claimed much of the <br />available resource. Water rights for hydro- <br />electric power generation can control the <br />Gunnison River if fully exercised. <br /> <br />~ <br />J <br /> <br />-../ DIV I <br /> <br />'-.J- <br /> <br /> <br />rj FAIRPlAY <br /> <br />DIV 5 <br /> <br />.~.. <br />'"<" <br /> <br />( <br />~ <br />\ SAlIDA -I). <br />'\. " <br />)/"'" ~ <br />~ <br /> <br />DIV 2 <br /> <br />GUNNISON <br /> <br />GtJflnl$on <br /> <br />Slul' M.JtI R., <br /> <br /> <br />r-...../ <br /> <br />'\....-- <br />( <br />~ <br />{ <br /> <br />'-- <br />