Lead paragraph
The City has a water rights portfolio that allows for reuse of certain water rights and Windy Gap shares. Currently, the City uses downstream exchanges of its treated wastewater effluent return flows to allow for increased surface water diversions at its water treatment plant and other raw water supply ditches, for exchanges to increase its raw water supply and to meet required return flow requirements that result from water rights change cases. The City optimizes use of its reuse water where legally and physically possible.