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<br />000843 <br /> <br />-25- <br /> <br />10. The Knapp Plan (Cont1d) <br /> <br />equally effective priorities. The effect of assuming 100% diversion re- <br /> <br /> <br />quirament and effioienoy, on the part of the ditohes between Caddoa and <br /> <br /> <br />lAmar, is to unduly inerease the 0 alculated dOYlls':,'realJl deficienc ies, and <br /> <br /> <br />hence to increase the oharges against upstrelll1l Colorado ditches. <br /> <br /> <br />Further enlargements of the charges aGainst Colorado result <br /> <br /> <br />from the asswnption of the Knapp Plan that Mlter passing the headgates <br /> <br /> <br />of ditches upstreem in Districts 14 and 17 arrives at Caddoa Reservoir <br /> <br /> <br />the same day or instant. This asswnption, admittedly inacourate, is <br /> <br /> <br />said to have been made for convenience, to avoid complications incident <br /> <br /> <br />to the substantial and widely differine; times of travel. However, be- <br /> <br /> <br />cause of the one-way prooedure of the Knapp calculations. the simplifi- <br /> <br /> <br />cation in accountinG is attained at the expense of Colorado, for the <br /> <br /> <br />reason that. while charges are entered on the day~ and in the amounts as <br /> <br /> <br />calculated. no credits are entered on other days. That is to say. the <br /> <br /> <br />Knapp Plan charges Colorado with all calculated lUlder-deliveries to <br /> <br /> <br />Caddoa Reservoir, but ignores allover-deliveries calculated on other <br /> <br /> <br />days by the same formula. For eXlll1lple, on l1a.y 13. when the priorities <br /> <br /> <br />below Caddoa to be satisfied are said to total 41) second-feet (and which. <br /> <br /> <br />with the assumed 32 second-feet of mt river gain to LSlTlIll'. could have <br /> <br /> <br />been supplied by a flow of 381 second-feet at Las Animas), the actual <br /> <br /> <br />flow at Las Animas was 605 second-feet. The e~ess delivery of 224 <br /> <br /> <br />second-feet was taken away, by administrative orders, fram upstream <br /> <br /> <br />ditches that needed the water, and was delivered to Caddoa Reservoir" If <br /> <br /> <br />on other days the upstream ditches are to be charged with so-called under <br />