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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />4.) Accounting and Deliveries of storage water: <br /> <br />a.) <br /> <br />Roles and relationship of the North Fork Water <br />Conservancy District and the Fire Mountain Canal <br />and Reservoir Company? <br /> <br />= <br />r.J <br />r-' <br />>-" <br />-..J <br />- <br /> <br />The North Fork Water Conservancy District (District) was formed to provide a <br />contracting entity for the paonia project. The District entered into <br />contracts with the United states, the Fire Mountain Canal and Reservoir <br />company (Company) , and the Leroux Creek Water Users Association. <br />(Association) . <br /> <br />As outlined in the provisions of the June 11,1948 contract between the United <br />States and the District, the paonia project was constructed, and two <br />irrigation blocks were established: the Fire Mountain Irrigation Block and <br />the Leroux Ck. Irrigation Block. <br /> <br />-- A contract between the District and the Company (August 9,1948) provided <br />the Company with the perpetual right of use. of 8100 acre-feet of paonia <br />Project storage water on the Fire Mountain Irrigation Block for the amount of <br />repayment obligation allocated to the Fire Mountain Irrigation Block. <br />Operation and maintenance of the project has been transferred from the <br />District to the Company by contract. <br /> <br />-- A contract between the District and the Association (June 11,1948) <br />provides the Association with the perpetual right to the use of 4550 acre- <br />feet of project storage water to be made available to the Leroux Ck. <br />Irrigation Block for the amount of the repayment obligation allocated to the <br />Leroux Ck. Irrigation block. <br />The Association is composed of water users on Rogers and Redlands Mesa. The <br />Association was formed to permit a consolidation of all water rights and <br />holdings on Leroux Ck. into one central administration. This provided a <br />means for the exchange of the Leroux Ck. water historically used below the <br />Fire Mountain Canal for project water. (Currant Ck. diversions are are used <br />to supply demands outside the Leroux Ck. basin.) <br />A principal feature of the paonia project is the provision for the complete <br />diversion of all decreed waters of the Leroux Ck. watershed upstream from the <br /> <br />8 <br />