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• Finger Rock Pipelines. Non-consumptive for fish hatchery. (not modeled) • Moore Park Creek (Elgin Ditch) (not modeled) • Lives largely on return flows from Lindsey, Big Mesa and C.A. Leighton ditches. • Elvis can dry up stream at the Fix Ditch. Return flow from Elgin can make a stream. • Most of return flows from Buckingham Mandall, Mandall, Acton and Fix ditches go to Phillips Creek. • Pennsylvania return flows below Town of Yampa. • Bird and Nickel return flows above Egeria Ditch. • Allen Basin Supply Ditch: • Diverts from Mill Creek. Delivers transbasin to Allen Basin Reservoir. • Not much water. Only diverts in spring runoff before direct flow rights are in. • Boor Ditch is not used much. It is a small carrier ditch from So. Hunt Creek to Mill Creek above the Allen Basin Supply Ditch. (not modeled) • Lafone Ditch is the last calling right on So. Hunt Creek. • Collins Ditch and the Simon Ditch are the major rights on Middle Hunt • Rossi No. 1 is higher on Middle Hunt Creek but is not used much. (not modeled) • North Hunt Creek: • The Sage Hen Ditch is above the N. Hunt Creek Ditch • Return flows from High Mesa and Sage Hen are intercepted by N. Hunt Crk Ditch. • Allen Basin Reservoir: • Water delivered to Simon, Collins and Reservoir Ditch (a carrier ditch). • Reservoir Ditch carries to Bull Ck. Ditch, Mill Creek Ditch and Lateral A Ditch. • North Hunt Creek Ditch can dry up No. Hunt Creek; Collins can dry up Middle Hunt Creek and Lafone Ditches can dry up South Hunt Creek. • Oakton Ditch gets a lot of return flow directly from tailwater out of Egeria Ditch. • Union Ditch was inundated by Stagecoach Reservoir and is not used much except for Stagecoach mitigation plan. • Stagecoach hydropower: • Up to 115 cfs can be released for hydro. >115 cfs goes over spillway. • Typically run at minimum 40 cfs for power generation. (This was not implemented.) Yampa River Basin Information 3-14