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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9. The lIinderlider Plan, (Cont'd)

regimen of the river downstream, it cannot similarly e.1'1'ect the 1'low 01'

the river at upstream points; and while the diversion opportunities down-

stream will be changed, those upstream will not be altered. To avoid dis-

turbanoe of historic interstate relations, it was neoessary, in the 1933

Stipulation, to define the downstream diversions, - those in Kansas in

relation to those in Colorado. But it was not necessary or aclV'isable to

de1'ine the relations between appropriators above and below Caddoa Reser-

voir in colorado, for the relations between them are defined by the

Courts of Colorado and are,1'ixed on the basis 01' relative priorities, and

could not, by an agreement between the two States, be redefined on a diff-

erent quantitative basis. Henoe it appears that an allooation to Colo-

rado, for diversion by ditches upstream from caddoa, was not intended

in the 1933 Stipulation, and should not be asswned.

10. Tha Knapp Pla.n.

As distinguished from the previously outlined Hinderlider Plan,-

which compares the aggregate total diversions, including stored and sur-

plus supplies, 01' a selected group of upstream ditches in 1943, with

their historic average diversions, in acre-feet by months, and attributes

the departures to Caddoa Reservoir, - the Knapp Plan, hereinafter dis-

cussed, considers the diversions 01' river water, exclusive of stored and

imported supplies, on a daily second-foot basis, and involves so-oalled

out-of-priority diversions of upstream ditohes selected individually.

The Knapp Memorandum of July '<9, 1943 explains the procedure.