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Riverside Reservoir and Land Company Riverside Irrigation District Farmers State Bank of Brush Case No. 90-CW-189 Page 11 28. Conditions of temporary storage: In order to preserve the historical return flow regimen attributable to the operation of Riverside Reservoir and its inlet and outlet canals, any water stored for the Headley Re- charge and Augmentation Project will be subject to the following terms and conditions (No parallel criteria are proposed for Wildcat Reservoir since it has no associated historical return flow regimen): A. The water so stored shall be separately accounted for by Riverside as the "Recharge Account." The amount of water delivered into or released from the Recharge Account will be quantified on a daily basis. B. The amount of water credited to the Recharge Account shall be decreased by 0.33 per day to account for seepage and evaporative losses. C. The following water rights listed in order of seniority are decreed for storage in Riverside Reservoir: (1) A water storage right, Reservoir Priority No. 24, with an appropriation date of April 1, 1902, which was decreed on January 15, 1914, for 700 million cubic feet of water or 16,070 acre-feet for irrigation purposes, to be diverted through the inlet canal at a rate of 500 cfs. (2) A water storage right, Reservoir Priority No. 45, with an appropriation date of August 1, 1907, also decreed on January 15, 1914, for 1,805 million cubic feet of water or 41,437 acre-feet for irrigation purposes, to be diverted through the inlet canal at a rate of 1,000 cfs. (3) A water storage right, Reservoir Priority No. 77, usually referred to as the "rod decree," with an appropria- tion date of October 25, 1910, also decreed on January 15, 1914. The decree grants the right to a sufficient amount of water to fill Riverside Reservoir, together with the water granted under Reservoir Priority No. 24 and 45, to a specified depth above the bottom of the outlet tubes. Subsequently, this storage right has been made absolute to a depth of 33.55 feet above the bottom of the outlet tubes of Riverside Reservoir, to be diverted at a rate not to exceed 1,000 cfs from the South Platte River through the inlet canal. The remaining portion of the conditional water right awarded in the January 15, 1914 decree has been abandoned.