WSP08323

• File Number: 8051
• Description: Area of Origin
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 12/1/1985
• Title: Guidelines for Developing Area-Of-Origin Compensation -- A Research Report Prepared for the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

Colorado Supreme Court, in a case previously noted,86 disagreed

and required the Subdistrict to develop a specific plan consti-

tuting "a physical demonstration of the design, construction and

operational aspects of diversion facilities required by subpara-
graph IV."87

Negotiations ensued between the Municipal Subdistrict and

the Colorado River Water Conservation District (River District)

beginning in December, 1979.

John Sayre provides an excellent

account of these negotiations, discussing the concerns of the

various West Slope interests and the settlements eventually

reached to satisfy these concerns.88

To summarize briefly,

concerns about possible increases in salinity were addressed by

paying Grand County $25,000 to conduct salinity studies; concerns

by the Town of Hot Sulphur Springs about its water supply and

sewage systems were met by payments of $150,000 for improvements

to its water treatment facility and $270,000 for improvem~nts in

its waste water treatment facility; concerns by ranchers about

this project. Since Windy Gap was a project of entities within
the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District and since the
additional diversions still would not bring the total to more
than the originally planned 310,000 acre-feet, the Subdistrict
considered that its obligations were already satisfied by Green
Mountain Reservoir.

86Colorado River Water Conservation District v. Municipal
Subdistrict, Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, supra
note 73.

87Id. at 358 and 85.

88See supra note 83. See also "Agreement Concerning the
Windy Gap-project and the Azure Reservoir and Power project"
(April 30, 1980) and "Supplement to Agreement of April 30, 1980"
(March 29, 1985).

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