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Utah Lake Annual Amended Conversion Criteria

Updated: April 2, 2002


                          March 28, 2002


                            AMENDMENT
                                TO
 INTERIM WATER DISTRIBUTION PLAN FOR THE UTAH LAKE DRAINAGE BASIN

The State Engineer received a request from the Central Utah Water
Conservancy District not to deliver water for this season under
water right numbers 57-7624, 59-14, 59-15 and 59-20.  These water
rights are supplied from Utah Lake and/or Jordan River.  The water
rights represent 25,000 acre-feet of primary rights and 57,073
acre-feet of secondary rights in Utah Lake.  With this reduction in
the demand on Utah Lake, the criteria of when system storage can be
converted to priority storage needs to be modified accordingly.
Following are the modifications to Table 3 of the Interim Water 
Distribution Plan for the Utah Lake Drainage Basin.  The River 
Commissioners are hereby directed to implement these modifications 
as of March 28, 2002, and they shall be in effect for the remainder 
of the 2002 distribution season.

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    Date            System Storage in Utah Lake and/or Upstream
                   Reservoirs for Remainder of 2002 Distribution
                            Season (Units: acre-feet)
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   March 28                          580,806
   March 28                          422,903
   April 15                          420,000
    May 15                           345,000
   June 15                           290,000
   July 15                           255,000
  August 15                          180,000
 September 15                        145,000
  October 31                         125,000*
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Note: Values can be interpolated from the table to determine system
storage on any particular day.
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*The October 31 value will be reduced to 90,000 acre-feet if the Central
 Utah Water Conservancy District requests water not be delivered during
 the 2003 distribution season prior to October 31, 2002.