WSP09807

• File Number: 8101
• Description: Arkansas River Basin
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 8/27/1943
• Author: Uknown
• Title: Dispute Concerning Interstate Administration of Arkansas River and Caddoa Reservoir During Months of April to July 1943
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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O. History o!...9addoa, Sto.::"ge (Cont'd)

A.F. on Hay 1, and to 14,770 A.F. on tlay ';S, 1943. During this period

tentative fiGures were compiled, more or less fram day to day, by the

Colorado State EnGineer. showing the quantities diverted by Colorado

ditches be low Caddoa. the, qu otas bas ed there on to whic h Kansas was en-

titled, the Stateline deliveries to Kansas, and the additional quanti-

ties delivered to Kansas in excess of that State's quotas. Tentative

estimates \\ere also JIW,de of the additional diversions of upstream Colo-

rado ditches that might be attributed to the sUPF,J of water stored in

Caddoa Reservoir to Colorado's credit. ,!hen on ~iay ';S. 1943 it appeared

that the said additional upstream diversions might then have accumulated

to' a total 11 ,000 A. F. greater than the excess or additional quanti ties

delivered to KansaS, the Colorado State Engineer notified ,the appropria-

tors along the Arkansas River that no longer might such additional up-
stree.m diversions be made, and thereaf'ter their rights, both above and
below Caddoa Reservoir. would be administered on the basis of priorities
and as though no water was stored in Caddoa Reservoir to Colorado's
credit. Through June and July the natural flows entering the reservoir,
being the waters claimed by dom-stream appropriators away from those up-
stream, were released for diversion by dom-stream Colorado ditches. and

the stored waters were released as and when requested by Kansas water

officials, at rates such that the stored waters amounted to 2.394 A. F.

on July 1 and to 93 A.F. on July 31. 1943, at which time for practical

purposes the reservcir was empty.