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<br />081037 <br /> <br />, ( <br /> <br />-6- <br /> <br />Uses of reservoir and transmountain water supplies by the Bessemer, Highline, <br /> <br />Otero and Holbrook canals in 1943, probably do not vary materially from their <br /> <br />historic average uses. However increased diversions of transmountain water sup- <br /> <br />plies by the Colorado canal in recent years, and especially in 1943, preclude the <br /> <br />use of diversions by the Colorado canal in 1943 in arriving at a determination <br /> <br />of the amount of additional uses of water by the canals above Caddoa Reservoir. <br /> <br />Average historic uses by the Colorado canal up to 1939, and 1943 diversions <br /> <br />by this canal, are shown in the tabulations however, for the information of <br /> <br />interested water users. <br /> <br />By eliminating diversions by the Colorado canal, it is believed that fairly <br /> <br />reliable conclusions may be drawn as to increased uses of river water by the <br /> <br />other canals in 1943. <br /> <br />Upon this basis, the records appear to show that total net increased <br /> <br />diversions of river water in 1943 by the other five canals, amounted to but <br /> <br />1258 acre feet. This latter amount added to the total increased diversions <br /> <br />in 1943 by Colorado canals below Caddoa Reservoir, shows a total increased use <br /> <br />of water in 1943 by Colorado over average historic uses of 5285 acre feet, <br /> <br />compared with increased deliveries to, and uses in Kansas above historic <br /> <br />average uses of 4296 acre feet; also deliveries to Kansas in excess of . <br /> <br />Stipulated requirements, of 5930 acre feet and 5884 acre feet in excess of <br /> <br />Kansas' rightful proportion of all diversions by the Colorado ditche~ below <br /> <br />Caddoa Reservoir in 1943. The average of these three additional deliveries to, <br /> <br />and uses by Kansas ditches, therefore appears to have been but 85 acre feet <br /> <br />more than the total amount of increased uses of river water in 1943, by the <br /> <br />17 Colorado ditches involved. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />h <br />, <br /> <br />-~ <br />