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<br />14GD <br /> <br />. The Colorado State Engineer also directed the District to make future stock water releases at the <br /> <br />rate specified in the operating principles unless the operating principles are amended to allow the <br /> <br />releases at a higher rate. The Colorado State Engineer acknowledged and understood how <br /> <br />Kansas' accounting of the stockwater releases on a daily basis may have resulted in total storage <br /> <br />of 20828 acre feet in the transferred Model right but did not believe that a daily analysis of stock <br /> <br />water releases was appropriate in this particular case. <br /> <br />Since initial operation of the Project, the District has made the stock water releases at high <br /> <br />rates of flow for a short duration of time for more efficient filling of stock water ponds, After <br /> <br />receipt ofthe Colorado State Engineer's directive in September 1993, the District released the <br /> <br />stock water at a rate not to exceed 5,0 cfs at a point upstream of the Baca Ditch headgate <br /> <br />(Trinidad gauge) during the winter of 1993-94. <br />. The operating principles provide: <br /> <br />"During the non-irrigation season the District will provide an allowance <br /> <br />for stock watering purposes of not more than a daily mean flow of five <br /> <br />second-feet or its volume equivalent measured at a gage to be located near <br /> <br />and above the Baca River head gate. If the ~tream gains from the Trinidad <br />.' <br /> <br />Dam to the said gage are insufficient to fulfill the allowan,ce, an equivalent <br /> <br />volume of reservoir inflow will be released to satisfy stock water demands <br /> <br />within the allowance". (Emphasis added) <br /> <br />Reclamation's pre-Project planning model assumed that Trinidad Reservoir would <br /> <br />be operated to: "Store in Trinidad Reservoir under Model right (maximum rate of700 cfs and <br /> <br />20,000 acre foot filling) winter (November through March) flows of the Purgatoire River <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />16 <br />