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<br />., <br /> <br />Ml:n"l <br />- - >082-40-91566 <br />COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD'.ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />WATER ENTERING NEBRASKA FROM THE NORTH PLATTE RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES <br />September 1940 <br /> <br />Although there has been a station maintained during reoent years <br /> <br />at the \~oming-Nebraska state line. tIns station does not measure the total <br /> <br />water entering the State of' Nebraska having its souroe in the North Platte <br /> <br />River and its tributaries. There is oonsi. derable water diverted by the <br /> <br />Interstate and Fort l.e.ramie Canal Systems which in part is used in the <br /> <br />State of' Wyoming and in part by Nebraska. Nebraska receives the largest <br /> <br />share of' this oanal water and in order to make an aoourate estimate of' the <br /> <br />total amount entering Nebraska it is necessary either to estimate the <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />amount used in "yoming or to obtain some reoord of the amounts entering <br /> <br /> <br />Nebraska through the oanal systems. The United States Reoltu1lB.tion Bureau <br /> <br />has maintained a reoord of the amounts of water passing from l~oming into <br /> <br />Nebraska through these two canal systems. From 1912 through 1919 the <br /> <br />station was maintained at Henry. Nebraska. whioh is a short distanoe below <br /> <br />the stllteline. By use of that reoord and the extension of it. together <br /> <br />wi th the records of the Interstate Canal as furnished by the Reolamation <br /> <br />Bureau. and from r eoords of the Mitohe11 and Gering oanals. and from <br /> <br />estimates for those oanals. amounts were oaloulllted whioh are believed to <br /> <br />be the total flow into the State of' Nebraska. The oontributions made by <br /> <br /> <br />Horse Creek should be considered and al1owanoe has been made for the dis- <br /> <br />charge of' Horse Creek in these oaloulations. Then f'rom 1929 to date a <br /> <br /> <br />gaging station has been maintained at the Wyoming-Nebraska line. Thi s new <br /> <br /> <br />gaging station is above the Gering Canal and below the llitohell Canal. <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />In oalculllting the total f'low in Nebraska for this later period the <br /> <br />diversions made by the Gering Canal are left out and the Ft. l.e.ramie <br /> <br />Diversions added with all other items remaining as f'or the earlier period. <br /> <br />-1- <br />