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<br />facts <br />From the foregoing/it l'/Ould appear that transfer of the <br />present lower rights to upper lands would de1ay for 30 days the necess~ <br />ity to begin drawing Overland storage, during which time an average of <br />considerably more than 50 BElcond-feet of add.itional a.1vert 1'10'11' would <br />have been avai1able to the upper lands. Thus the upper lands 'III'Ould gain <br />a minimum of 50 second-feet for .30 days, or 3,000 acre-feet of direct <br />flow, but more important 'still their Overland storage 'WOUld be oonser- <br />ved until 30 days later than it hi n_ required. <br /> <br />Involved in the transfer are the storage rights now held below <br />Fire Mountain Canal in Leroux Creek reservoirs, amounting to 2,000 acre- <br />feet, more or less, and 500 acre-feet in Overland reservoir, as well as <br />such direct div.ersion as i8 n01W possible while the reservoir water is <br />being released. Computation from recorda of 1938 and 19;9 as well as <br />inspection of the plotted records indicates that this additional direct <br />flow, would, during the period of' storage release, amount to a minimum <br />of 2,000 acre-feet. <br /> <br />Apparently the gains from transfer of present lower rights UIl- <br />stream would 'be: <br /> <br />Direct flowl 3,000 acre-feet minimum between present and probab1e dates <br />of' call ror Overland storage, <br /> <br />2,000 acre-faet present minimum direct diversion during <br />period when lower landa are nOlllT drawing Leroux storage~ <br /> <br />~Sl;ored water: 2,500 to 2,700 acre-feet or Leroux end Overland storage. <br /> <br />This minimum gain o:r 5,000 acre-feeto:f direct now, which seems <br />poss.tble under 19.39 conditions, is not SO important as the fact that Over- <br />land .storage oan be conserved :ror .30 days beyond the time when it is nOlII' <br />required and that apparently the Leroux Creek storage gained can be held <br />until an even later period. A.t present the storage for Ulfper lands is <br />practically exhausted in dry years just when it is most needed -during <br />J'uly and August. <br /> <br />The :!'ollowing talbe is based on .actual diversions to the upper <br />lands from Leroux Creek and the Overland systan in 1939, and the amounts <br />gained by transrer of the lower rights upstream are olosely estimated from <br />runo:!'f records of' LeI'Oux Creek and the total diversions in that year to <br />lower lands. <br /> <br />-1..- <br />