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<br />" <br /> <br />is dedicated to replacement of any senior West Slope water rights <br /> <br />affected by project diversions. <br /> <br />The remainder is available for <br /> <br />other municipal and industrial uses on the West Slope.82 <br /> <br />The other transmountain diversion involving the statutory <br /> <br />basin of origin protection is the Windy Gap project.83 <br /> <br />Some of <br /> <br />the storage and transportation facilities of the Colorado-Big <br /> <br />Thompson project are utilized to transport water from the <br /> <br />Colorado River to primarily municipal users on the East Slope. <br /> <br />This totally private project is being funded, constructed, and <br /> <br />operated by the Municipal Subdistrict, Northern Colorado Water <br /> <br /> <br />Conservancy District.84 An average annual water supply of 54,000 <br /> <br />acre-feet will be furnished by the project. <br /> <br />Initially, the Municipal Subdistrict took the position that <br /> <br />Green Mountain Reservoir already satisfied the requirements of <br /> <br />the basin of origin protection provision.85 <br /> <br />However, the <br /> <br />82Correspondence contained in Ruedi Dam and Reservoir, <br />Colo. (Letter from Acting Secretary of the Interior Transmitting <br />A Report and Findings on Ruedi Dam and Reservoir, Colo., Pursuant <br />to the Federal Reclamation Laws) (March 7, 1960) specifically <br />discusses the expected water needs associated with oil shale <br />development in western Colorado. <br /> <br />83Most of the following information came from John M. Sayre, <br />"The windy Gap project: A Case Study," Presentation at New <br />Sources of Water for Energy Development and Growth: Interbasin <br />Transfers Conference (Natural Resources Law Center, U. of <br />Colo. School of Law) (June 9, 1982). <br /> <br />84Included are the cities of Boulder, Greeley, Longmont, <br />Estes Park, and Loveland and the Platte River Power Authority. <br /> <br />85The CBT project was originally planned to divert 310,000 <br />acre-feet. Green Mountain was designed accordingly. In fact, an <br />annual average of 250,000 acre-feet of water has been diverted by <br /> <br />33 <br />