WSP08505

• File Number: 8103.400
• Description: Arkansas River Compact Administration - Article VIII Investigations
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 4/6/1949
• Author: Hans Kramer
• Title: Report to Congress of the United States on Proposed Arkansas River Compact
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

, that. sedimentatiollil of the reservoir - l.mless otherwise checked or

prevented - will decrease the effective capacity of the conservation

pool to about one-half in 34 years and vdll end its useful life for

conservation purposes: in about 68 years. Silt surveys to detennine

progressive sedimentation of the reservoir are made periodically

by the Corps of Engineers.

By the fact of its existence, the John Martin Reservoir

Project, though not affecting the equities of apportionment of water

between Colcrado and Kansas, actually constitutes the key structure

in the implementatioZ'l! of any plan of apportionment. Except for the

uncontrolled tributary inflows and return flows from irrigation

usage which come into the Arkansasmainstem below Caddoa, the operation

of the John Martin Project for water conservation purposes yull be the

controlling factor in regulating the nOV! of Vlater to Colorado

irrigation ditches below the dam site and to the Colorado-Kansas

Stateline. That operating function being vested in the Corps of

Engineers gives the United States an intimate interest and

inescapable responsibility in the administration of the proposed

compact. This significant fact has, been clearly recognized by the

Chief of Engineers in collaborating with the negotiating commissioners

in the drafting of the proposed compact.

Section 6. INTERESTS OF THE SIGNATORY STATES
The primary concern of the States of Colorado and Kansas
in the proposed compact is to attain a definitive solution to their
perennial problem of apportionment of the waters of the Arkansas River.

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