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•As soon as water stored in a reservoir or in the process of being <br />delivered by a ditch seeps through the bottom or sides of the <br />structure, it is considered waters of the state subject to the prior <br />appropriation doctrine. <br />•Absent a specific decreed appropriation to the contrary, water <br />flowing from the toe drain of a dam associated with a reservoir is <br />considered seepage and cannot be considered a release or be used. <br />•A reservoir owner may not recapture seepage water from a <br />reservoir as part of the original storage right unless specifically <br />allowed by decree and may not recapture fully consumable water <br />without dominion and control accounting approved by the division <br />engineer.