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November 15, 2008--Water storage program in effect; lake levels begin rising today (Pueblo Chieftain)

Lake Pueblo will begin filling again today, after demands for water downstream stop drawing it down. The winter water storage program began at midnight, signaling the end of irrigation season in the Arkansas Valley. The winter water storage began in 1975 after Pueblo Dam was built as a way to allow farmers to hold back flows during winter months until March 15 for use the following year. The program was put into a water court decree in 1984. On average, 130,000 acre-feet have been stored annually, most of it in Lake Pueblo, but some in downstream reservoirs as well.

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