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~~ 1. Direct flow - A right to a specific rate of flow in <br />i accordance with priority which must be put to immediate <br />beneficial use. <br />2. Storage - A right to a specific volume of water diverted <br />and stored in a reservoir for use at a later time either <br />_ in the same year or a subsequent year. Storage rights <br />are entitled to only one filling each year unless the <br />i decree specifically provides otherwise. <br />r 3. Absolute - A water right, either direct flow or storage, <br />that has been perfected by application to beneficial use. <br />4. Conditional - A right to perfect a water right for a <br />certain priority upon the completion with reasonable <br />diligence of the claimed appropriation. <br />Two types of decrees may be awarded to any particular water <br />right structure, namely, an original decree or an enlargement <br />decree. An original decree is a decree encompassing the first <br />right awarded to a ditch and an enlargement decree is a subsequent <br />decree encompassing a right(s) awarded to a ditch or structure <br />enlarging the amount originally granted. <br />A decree with a very junior priority is sometimes referred to <br />as a "runoff decree" or "flood decree". These decrees entitle <br />their owners to exercise their water rights when excess water <br />exists in the stream from which diversions occur. As flows <br />decrease, low priority rights are "called" by more senior water <br />rights causing a non-availability of water for these low priority <br />water rights. <br />Plans for augmentation were created to accommodate detailed <br />`~ programs for the change of water rights from their historic uses <br />to new uses. Under a plan for augmentation, water from decreed <br />• rights may be made available to fulfill new water requirements. <br />Plans for augmentation are necessarily complex and detailed and <br />' I-5 <br />