欧博Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District
During the early planning stages of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, what has become known as the Winter Water Storage Program (WWSP) was formulated. As a result, the concept of a WWSP evolved with the objective of storing irrigation water that would have been diverted to the fields by irrigation entities downstream of Pueblo Reservoir during the winter months. This stored water would then be released during the following irrigation season. Through meaningful negotiations and the experience and data gained each year, refinements and adjustments were made to the WWSP with the goal of arriving at an equitable means of apportioning the stored water among the WWSP participants and avoiding injury to non-participants.
Following intensive negotiations and finally reaching unanimous consent of the participants and objectors, an interlocutory decree was approved by Water Court Judge Tracey on November 10, 1987. Judge Tracey entered an order making the interlocutory decree final on November 10, 1990. The WWSP runs from November 15 through March 14 of the following year.
The participants in the WWSP store their WWSP water primarily in Pueblo Reservoir, but also use Lake Henry and Lake Meredith under the Colorado Canal system, Holbrook and Dye Reservoirs under the Holbrook System, Adobe and Horse Creek Reservoirs under the Fort Lyon System, Great Plains Reservoirs under the Amity System and in John Martin Reservoir. Priority for storage of WWSP water in Pueblo Reservoir when space is limited goes to entities not having off channel reservoirs.
The Board of Directors of the Winter Water Storage Program meets at least once a year usually in October prior to the beginning of the WWSP.
Winter Water Storage Participants
The participants in the Winter Water Storage Program are:
The Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District
Amity Mutual Irrigation Company
Bessemer Irrigating Ditch Company
Catlin Canal Company
The Colorado Canal Company
The Fort Lyon Canal Company
The High Line Canal Company
The Holbrook Mutual Irrigating Company
Lake Henry Reservoir Company
Lake Meredith Reservoir Company
Las Animas Consolidated Canal Company
Oxford Farmers Ditch Company
Riverside Dairy Ditch
West Pueblo Ditch
Winter Water Meeting Agenda and Minutes
2024-2025 Winter Water Reports
2023-2024 Winter Water Reports
2022-2023 Winter Water Reports
2021-2022 Winter Water Reports
2020-21 Winter Water Reports
2019-20 Winter Water Reports
2018-19 Winter Water Reports
2017-18 Winter Water Reports
2016-17 Winter Water Reports
2015-16 Winter Water Reports
2014-15 Winter Water Reports
2013-14 Winter Water Reports
2012-13 Winter Water Reports
2011-12 Winter Water Reports
Historical Years Winter Water Reports