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<br />14';3 <br /> <br />. below Trinidad Dam exceed the irrigation requirement and the excess flows are storable the <br /> <br />District will resume the exercise of the direct flow rights and exercise the District's storage rights. <br /> <br />As indicated in the paragraph above, determination of a canal and lateral transportation <br /> <br />loss allowance for the individual ditch systems and the irrigation requirements are important <br /> <br />elements in operation of the Project for optimum beneficial use of the District water supply. The <br /> <br />District has not determined transportation losses for the individual ditch systems, but has assumed....::S" ~ <br />. ~s-.. <br />the equivalent value for all the Project ditch systems that was determined and used in the project ~......:~ <br />f^:t<-L T <br />7~M.. '- <br /> <br />-_.,-_.~----- <br /> <br />planning studies; thus using the s <br /> <br /> <br />the ditch systems. The District <br /> <br />should either use the theoretical values for the individual ditch systems used in the planning <br /> <br />studies or determine values with field measurements. However, if the Project water users desire <br /> <br />to use the equivalent value for all the ditch systems it could be used for Project operations. ~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The District has not developed a methodology for determining a current real time <br /> <br />irrigation requirement. The irrigation requirement limits the water supply allocation, determines <br /> <br />when the irrigation season is opened and closed and when the District resumes exercise of the <br /> <br />direct flow rights after the reservoir has been declared empty and the exercise of the direct flow <br /> <br />rights had been relinquished. A methodology should ~e developed to determine a real tillle ~ ~ <br /> <br />irrigation requirement and strictly administered in order to attain more optimum use of the District <br />~ "1 V"'''''-I _ <br />water supply. 4J.~ <br /> <br />The City of Trinidad owns a majority of the shares of the J~hns Flood Ditch water rights. <br /> <br /> <br />Trinidad presently leases this water to other land owners for irrigation purposes. Trinidad has <br /> <br />~/t <br />\.-y.,! v <br />'I.,:-;J",~ <br /> <br />proposed to change the use of these water rights from irrigation to municipal and industrial <br />. L <br /> <br />purposes to use the water for municipal uses in Trinidad and to replenish the fishery and <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />25 <br />