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<br />'1 of (." '!j <br />,.J~ 10 <br /> <br />. principles. The hydrologic analysis indicates there may have been a slight decrease in deple!ions <br /> <br />resulting from Project operations compared to depletions that would have occurred under <br /> <br />historical conditions, <br /> <br />(C9 The District has ~t, attained optimum beneficial use of the District water supply. The <br /> <br />District has not determined individual ditch losses for the allocation of the District water supply <br />c <br /> <br />nor has the District limited individual ditch diversions to the amount allocated. The District has <br /> <br />not developed a methodology for determining a current real time irrigation requirement. Absent <br /> <br />the determination of a real time irrigation requirement, the District is unable to limit the allocation <br /> <br />or the delivery of water to the irrigation requirement. The District delivered more than the <br /> <br />irrigation requirement in seven of the ten years of the review period. The over delivery may not <br />1 <br /> <br />have significantly affected the District water supply because if the water was not storable at the <br /> <br /> <br />. time of the overdelivery, the water would have been unavailable for the District to store the water <br /> <br />and carry it over into a year of water shortage. <br /> <br />CZJY Th~ City of Trinidad may change the use of its Project water rights from irrigation to <br /> <br /> <br />municipal and industrial purposes in accordance with the contract between Reclamation and the <br /> <br />District without interference with the District water SlIpply and pursuant to Colorado water law <br />. . <br /> <br />without iniury to downstream Colorado and Kansas water users. The operating principles do not <br /> <br />now include a provision for Trinidad to change the use of its Project water rights from irrigation <br /> <br />to municipal and industrial purposes. The operating principles should be changed to allow <br /> <br />Trinidad to change the use of its water rights pursuant to Colorado law. <br /> <br /> <br />~onditi~ns (d) and (e) ofH.D. No. 325 which provide for reregulation of summer <br /> <br /> <br />flows which would have historically been diverted to Project lands and storage of flood flows <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />31 <br />