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<br /> <br />'. ' <br /> <br /> <br />1159 <br />II OPI;RATlNG PRWCIPLES, rRYINGPAlI-ARKANS;AS PROJECT <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Conservation District shall, hy written communication, advise the <br />Colorado State engineer that additional diversions can be made. <br />9. The respective decrees which may be or have been awarded to <br />the parties hereto as a part of the Fryingpan~Arkansas project and <br />Basalt project shall be administered by the proper officials of the <br />State of Colorado, in accordance with the applicable laws of the <br />State of Colorado, and with the following principles and procedures, <br />to wit: <br />(1) That the demand on the waters available under such de- <br />crees shall be allocated in the fallowing sequence: <br />(a) For diversion to the Arkansas Valley through the <br />collection system and the facilities of the Fryingpan- <br />Arkansas project in an amount not exceeding an aggregate <br />of 120,000 acre-feet of water in any year, but not to eX~ <br />ceed a total aggregate of 2,352.800, acre-feet in any period <br />of 311 consecutive years reckoned in continuing progressive <br />series starting with the first full year of diversions, <br />both limitations herein being excl~sive of Roaring Fork <br />exchanges as provided in (c) belOW, and exclusive of diver- <br />sions for the Busk-Ivanhoe decree; and with the further and <br />absolute limitation that in order to protect existing and <br />future beneficial uses of water in Western Colorado, in- <br />Cluding recreational and fishing values, the State engineer <br />shall so regulate the trans mountain diversions above re- <br />'ferred to, to the end that no diversions shall be made <br />which will reduce the remaining aggregate streamflows to <br />less than either of the following minimum standards: <br />U) The Fryingpan collection system at the points of <br />diversion collectively, exclusive of Lime Creek: 15 c.f.s. <br />October 1 through March 31; 30 c.f.s. April 1 throur,h <br />September 30. <br />Ui) Near Norrie Ummediatelybelo~r the junction of <br />North Fork and Fryingpan River): 30 c.f.s. October 1 <br />through 11arch 31; 100 c. f. s. April 1 through April 30; <br />150 c.f.s. ~lay 1 through ~lay 31; :200 c.f.s. June 1 throur,h <br />June'30; 100 c.f.s. July 1 through July 31; 75 c.f.s. <br />August 1 through August 31; 65 c.f.s. September 1 throu~h <br />September 30. <br />In maintaininp, the above minimum standards, the project <br />diversions shall be regulated, so far as is pra~ticable. <br />in such a manner that the llorth Tork of the Fryin!:pan <br />River, the Fryingpan River, and leach of the tributaries of <br />those streams, shall contribute!to the residual stream- <br />flows required by those minimumistandards auantities of <br />water in proportion to their natural contributions. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br />