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WATER DIVISION 5 Colorado Water Congress Annual Convention Workshop - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
WATER DIVISION 5 Colorado Water Congress Annual Convention Workshop - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
WATER DIVISION 5 Colorado Water Congress Annual Convention Workshop January 30, 2013 Blue River Operations 2004-2013 SOME HISTORY 1935 survey by USBR for CBT project funded 1937 - Senate Document 80 accepted into record of Federal
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SOME HISTORY
1964 - Stipulation and Decree, first use of “continuing
jurisdiction”
1977 - extreme dry year resulted in dispute over 28KAF
- wed to GMR storage or power
1978 – Decree limiting upstream diversions to be:
Against GMR storage until fill Then Against GMR power after fill
1987/88 - Refill Water Court Apps renewed efforts to
settle manner of accounting
1996 Substitution Decree adding Wolford Mtn to
Denver’s sources
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SOME HISTORY
Growi wing de dema mand an and d low w sn snowp wpack f from 2 2000-2004 2004 focuse ses n need f d for r reso solution
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SOME HISTORY
2000 - Disputed fill accounting 2001 - Dispute continued through season 2002 - extreme dry year put off dispute for year 2003 – No Consensus, temporary agreement 2004 through 2011 - State Engineer’s Green
Mountain Reservoir Interim Fill Policy
No precedent Described paper fill
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SEO INTERIM POLICY 2004-2011
2 of 9 years of operation were substitution
years – 2004 and 2011
May have had minor impact on owed to accts in
- nly 2004, though mostly mitigated by late
Shoshone call
Based on bypasses greater than 60cfs and
power plant operational during fill season, lost power production occurred only in 2007 and 2010
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SEO INTERIM POLICY 2004-2011
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NEGOTIATIONS OF ADMIN PRINCIPLES
2004-2005 efforts to establish permanent
accounting principles for the Blue River
2006-2009 Impasse Jan 2010 White Paper emerged from Global
Settlement negotiations
2010-2013 Negotiations between parties to
Blue River Decree, Climax, and Division of Water Resources.
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GREEN MOUNTAIN RES FILL PROTOCOL
Jan 2013 Negotiations near completion Green Mountain Reservoir Fill Protocol
33 page document Four sections Sections 1 and 2 - Fill Administration Section 3 - CA1710 Climax priorities relative to BRD Section 4 - repayment of owed to GMR accts, a
contract between the parties
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GREEN MOUNTAIN RES FILL PROTOCOL
Green Mountain Reservoir Fill Protocol
Agreement
sets out process for litigation in State Water Court
and Federal District Court
Court filings will be this year, too late for 2013
fill season, and may not be resolved for future seasons
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2013 INTERIM FILL POLICY
How will 2013 Interim Policy be issued?
Same principles as 2004 – 2012 Adopt Protocol as Interim Policy
Will it matter? Recent Years that it mattered:
2003 near average runoff following extremely dry
year
2004 dry year runoff following near average year
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2013 INTERIM FILL POLICY
2013 Snowpac ack c compar pariso ison
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2013 INTERIM FILL POLICY
Drought Monitor Index – extreme Blue River Snotel sites 43% to 59% of average Dillon Storage January 23rd:
2012 = 242,269 acre-feet 2013 = 173,546 acre-feet
Green Mountain Storage January 23rd:
2012 = 88,389 acre-feet 2013= 62,747 acre-feet
2013 Snow Pack and Runoff Conditions
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