WSP07150

• File Number: 8240.200.43.G
• Description: Grand Valley/Orchard Mesa
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 9/16/2002
• Title: Report of Appraisal - Storage Right, Highline Reservoir
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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97D-Z48-0601

T-IZ7 P.014/017 F-345

Contract No.

UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF RECLAMA TlON

RECOVERY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM
UPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN
GRAND V ALLEY PROJECT
mGHLINE LAKE WATER STORAGE SPACE

CONTRACT AND GRANT OF PERPETUAL EASEMENT

THIS CONTRACT Al\'D GRANT OF PERPETUAL EASEMENT (Contract), made this
day of ,2002, in pursuance of !he Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388),
and the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (87 Stat. 88 [16 USC Sec. 1531-15441), and acts
amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, between THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
hereinafter styled the United States, acting through such officer as is authorized therefore by the
Secretary of the Interior, and

STATE OF COLORADO FOR THE USE AND BENEFIT OF COLORADO GAME,
FISH AND PARKS COMMISSION; hereinafter styled Grantor

WITNESSETH, That for and in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained,
the parties hereto do covenant and agree as follows:

1. The Grantor does hereby grant, with covenants of warranty, and by this Contract
convey to the United States free of lien or encumbrance, except as otherwise provided herein, !he
following-described interests in real property situated in the County of Mesa, State of Colorado,
to-wit:

A perpetual easement to use and reuse approximately 320 acre-feet of water storage space in
Highline Lake, to temporarily store Grand Valley Project inigation water in and pump back out
of Highline Lake during the months of August, September and October each year. Said storage
space being the top tWO vertical feet of Highline Lake located between elevations 4698.6 and
4700.6 feet above mean sea level. Highline Lake is located in the W1I2 of the Fractional NE1I4
of the NE1I4, the Fractional NW1I4 of the NE1I4, the EI/2 of the Fractional NEl/4 of the
NWl/4, the SE1I4 of the NWl/4 and the r-.TE1I4 of the SWl/41ying Easterly of the ditches
named 49 Main and 49B, the SWl/4 of the NEl/4, the Wl/2 of the SEl/4 of the NE1I4, the
NW1I4 of the SE1I4, the Nl/2 of the SWII4 of the SEl/4 and the N1I2 of the SEl/4 of the
SW1I4 of Section 5 Township 2 North, Range 3 West, Ute Meridian, Mesa County, Colorado
and has a water surface area of approximately 160 acres. The above elevations are based upon
the Highline Lake spillway crest elevation of 4700.7 feet above mean sea level.

(a). The terms and conditions for the use of this perpetual easement area shall be
governed by the Memorandum of Understanding, Contract No. between the