WSP07518

• File Number: 8143.800
• Description: John Martin Reservoir - Water and Contracts
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 12/1/1999
• Title: Report of the Colorado State Engineer - Concerning Accounting of the Operations of an Offset Account in John Martin Reservoir for Colorado Pumping - 1998 -- Part 1 of 2
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Coil Report of the Colorado State Engineer

Offset Account Operations

November 1, 1998 to October 31, 1999

An Offset Account in John Martin Reservoir was authorized by the Resolution
Concerning an Offset Account in John Martin Reservoir for Colorado Pumping
dated March 17, 1997 ("Resolution") and by the Resolution Concerning an Offset
Account in John Martin Reservoir for Colorado Pumping As Amended March 30,
1998 ("Amended Resolution").

This report summarizes the operations conducted using the Offset Account for the
period November 1, 1998 through October 31, 1999 and has been prepared pursuant
to paragraph 11 the Amended Resolution.

At 0000 hours, November 1, 1998 the Offset Account contained 4848.68 acre-feet.
From November 1, 1998 through October 31, 1999 there were deliveries to and
releases from the Offset Account as summarized in the tables below. On March .31,
1999, 500.4 acre-feet of fully consumable water was delivered to the Offset Account to
satisfy the Storage Charge prerequisite for using the account for another year. Copies
of the correspondence describing this delivery are included in Section 3.

The entire content of the Offset Account was spilled on two different occasions
during the period of this report. On May 3,1999 the 5985.95 'acre-feet in the Offset
Account were spilled and on August 8, 1999 the 304.82 acre-feet in the Offset Account
were spilled.

In Section 1, a monthly summary of the contents of the Offset Account is provided in
Table 1. A summary of the subaccounts of the Offset Account is provided in Tables A
through B.2. The outline preceding the tables in Section 1 provides an explanation of
the purpose of each subaccount.

Section 2 ofthis report contains the daily accounting records, by month, for all
subaccounts in the Offset Account.

From November 1,1998 through October 31,1999, there were five deliveries of
water to the Offset Account, including the delivery of 500.4 acre-feet of fully
consumable water to satisfy the Storage Charge. These deliveries are summarized in
the following table.