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0('1036 ,( -5- Since the Colorado ditches below Caddoa Reservoir diverted 118,018 acre feet, required deliveries to Kansas based upon 44.1 percent of diversions by ditches below Caddoa Reservoir, should have been 52,046 acre feet instead of actual -'.de.liveries of 57,9.30 acre feet, which shows on this basis, excess delivery to Kansas of 5884 acre feet. All such diversions in Colorado and deliveries of water to Kansas, involve , no storage water in the sense that this term is used in connection with uses of stored water by canals diverting above Caddo a Reservoir. Diversions of water in 1943 by the Oxford Farmers, Catlin, Rocky Ford, Las Animas Consolidated, and Las Animas Town Ditches, which used no reservoir or trans mountain water, amounted to 27,718 acre feet more than their historic ( average diversions, while comparable diversions by the Fort Lyon canal were 14.490 acre feet less than its historic diversions. This comparison may not be exact, since records of historic diversions by some of these ditches at times, include water released from upstream reservoirs. and possibly small quantities of transmountain water. It is believed however, that the comparison is sufficiently accurate to reflect the increased or de- creased uses of water in 1943 by these ditches, out of direct river flow. The attached tabulations show 194.3 diversions by the Bessemer, Colorado, Highline, Otero and Holbrook canals of reservoir and transmountain water, as taken from the Daily River Reports, and also the amount of river water used. An exact determination of the extent of increased or decreased uses of river water alone. is not possible in the absence of a record showing segregations of diversions of reservoir and transmountain water from total diversions as shown ,( by the recorder charts and the use of reservoir water which was stored after April 1st. No such record of historic uses, has been made available. ,. L._ l~;