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<br />the Municipal Subdistrict of the Northern Colorado Water Conser- <br /> <br />vancy District in conjunction with its application for a condi- <br /> <br />tional decree for the proposed Windy Gap project. <br /> <br />The Court <br /> <br />first held that the project plans for accomplishing the protec- <br /> <br />tion purposes of the statute must be prepared and submitted to <br /> <br /> <br />the water court before a conditional decree may be granted.75 <br /> <br />The Court then found the plan that had been submi tted to be <br /> <br />insufficient and held that "[t]he plan required by subparagraph <br /> <br />IV must be at least as detailed as that necessary to document the <br /> <br />elements of an appropriation."76 <br /> <br />In particular, the Court <br /> <br />emphasized the need for such plans to manifest a "physical <br /> <br />demonstration of the design, construction, and operational <br /> <br />aspects of" the proposed diversion facilities that will achieve <br /> <br />the protections required by the statute.77 <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />4. <br /> <br />Other Experience with Compensatory Storage. <br /> <br />In addition <br /> <br />to the CBT Project, two other transmountain diversion projects <br /> <br />have been built by conservancy districts inVOlving water from the <br /> <br />Colorado River basin. <br /> <br />The first was the Fryingpan-Arkansas <br /> <br />project. <br /> <br />Beginning in the 1920's, agricultural interests in the <br /> <br />Arkansas River valley sought to supplement irrigation water <br /> <br />supplies.78 <br /> <br />Bureau of Reclamation investigations began in the <br /> <br />late 1930's. The project that was finally approved and funded by <br /> <br />75Id. at 356 and 84. <br /> <br /> <br />76Id at 357 and 84. <br /> <br /> <br />77Id. at 358 and 85. <br /> <br />78Terence Brace, "The History of the Fryingpan-Arkans'as <br />project" (undated) at 1. <br /> <br />31 <br />