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<br />3. Conditional Storage Right for Middle Fork Reservoir - a <br />channel reservoir on Middle Fork of Parachute Creek <br />Owned by Colony Development Operation <br />Decreed by District Court for Garfield County in Civil <br />Action No. 4914 for 171.622 acre-feet (Application for <br />additional storage pending) <br />Priority date - 9/15/1959 <br />Adjudication date - 11/10/1966 <br />The natural flow water rights held by Colony Development Operation <br />for the diversion of water from the Colorado River (Dow pumping <br />plant and pipeline) are of a relatively recent priority date. <br />• The rights on Davis Gulch and Middle Fork are also of recent <br />priority date as well as limited volume. These rights will <br />not assure a constant supply of water during certain months <br />of reduced Colorado River flow without impinging on senior water <br />rights. Since this would present operational difficulties for <br />the mining and processing activities, supplemental water supplies <br />will be obtained to assure continual operation of the oil shale <br />complex. The following paragraph reviews Colony's activities <br />to date in obtaining a supplemental water supply. <br />Colony Devlopment Operation actively negotiated and reached <br />agreement in principal, with the Bureau of Reclamation in 1973- <br />74 for delivery of between 4000 and 7000 acre-feet of water <br />from Green Mountain Reservoir. At that time a contract could <br />not be signed until completion of the project Environmental <br />Impact Statement. The EIS was completed by the Bureau of Land <br />Management in 1977, at which time Colony renewed its request <br />to the Bureau of Reclamation. Subsequent talks to date have <br />G-45 <br />