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I I ,- I . 1"~3': 1- U have significantly affected the District water supply because if the water was not legally storable ~t the time of the overdelivery, the water would have been unavailable for the District to store the water and carry it over into a year of water shortage. H. The City of Trinidad may change the use of its Project water rights from irrigation to municipal and industrial purposes in accordance with the contract between Reclamation and the District without interference with the District water supply and pursuant to Colorado water law without injury to downstream eolorado and Kansas water users. The operating principles do not now include a provision for Trinidad to change the use of its Project water rights from irrigation to municipal and industrial purposes. The operating principles should be changed to allow Trinidad to change the use of its water rights pursuant to Colorado law. I. Conditions (d) and (e) ofH.D. No. 325 which provide for reregulation of summer . flows which would have historically been diverted to Project lands and storage of flood flows originating above Trinidad Reservoir could be implemented under Colorado water law through development of substitute water supply plans. The substitute water supply plans would need to provide for protection of downstream water rights on the Purgatoire River and provide replacement water to John Martin Reservoir to prevent material depletion of the inflow to John Martin Reservoir. Recommendations A. Suspension of the practice of the transfer of water remaining in storage in the Model' Storage right to the joint use pool at the end of the irrigation season has had no effect since all Project lands have been irrigated and the operating principles should not be amended to recognize this practice. 33 " ,"," " "'," \ \ " ," '\: . " .>~' ". ".- ."'. {-",... , , . , ".'" :,':i~' .\: -;. ',......~ .