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<br />31 <br /> <br /> <br />0046 <br /> <br />storage and regulation could be provided in the authorized Cheney <br /> <br />Reservoir. This system could divert an average ~nual supply of <br />about 18,000 acre-feet from Syracuse Reservoir plus a portion of <br /> <br />the 21,000 acre-feet of unregulated inflow occurring between Garden <br /> <br />City and Dodge City. <br /> <br />An alternate diversion route could leave the Arkansas River <br /> <br />about eleven miles below Lamed. A canal about 45 miles long would <br /> <br />convey the water in a southeasterly direction across the Rattlesnake <br /> <br />drainage to discharge into a tributary of the North Fork of the <br /> <br />Ninnescah River just south of Stafford. This plan could divert the <br /> <br />releases from Syracuse Reservoir plus a part of the average annual <br /> <br />unregulated inflow of 153,000 acre-feet between Garden City and Larned. <br />This inflow includes 104,000 acre-feet from Pawnee River which enters <br /> <br />the Arkansas at Larned. This diversion route traverses a rather <br /> <br />extensive oil field and the danger of pollution might be high. <br />1 <br /> <br />A second aJ.ternate i'outecould divert from the Arkansas River <br /> <br />about 3 miles below Great Bend. A canal about 44 miles long would <br /> <br />flow in a southeasterly direction across the Rattlesnake drainage to <br /> <br />the North Fork of the Ninnescah River near the town of Sylvia. This <br /> <br />plan would have available the releases from Syracuse Reservoir plus <br /> <br />part of the unregulated average annual inflow of 203,000 acre-feet <br /> <br />between Garden City and Great Bend. This inflow includes Walnut <br /> <br />Creek. This route could aJ.so be subjected to serious pollution from <br /> <br />the oil fields and salt marshes which would be traversed. <br /> <br />Regulation of the Pawnee River and Walnut Creek flows would <br /> <br />materially enhance the two latter plans. <br />