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<br />" <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />source, date, lIIWlU1tt decreed, section, tOlll1Bhip IlDd rlll1ge. Alter the cClllplstion of <br /> <br />o tabulating these di version r1ghts~ the rigJ1ts vere plotted on the map 8Dd lIhovn by" <br />CJl <br />o green art'fis. After plel;t~ the IIIIlP was again studied and t1lO 1h~s 1I8nl noted: <br />c..-.:' -a.-~ _ ~ <br />1. Where there vasa high densit;y or stock P0Dis ard""nd.'[d1tch decrees, 2. there vere <br />-f).,..< "'<'- <br />Ilot of diversion rights _ not ver:y JIIBIIY stock pollis. This clear~ sesed to indl.- <br /> <br />cate that there can be IIG direct conflict between the tvo, hove \eI', th1e can not be <br /> <br />predicted for ~ <br /> <br />Later it was decided to select a few areas where the stream reoord was <br /> <br />available aud calcula:l;e above the station the total capacity of the stodt ponds asSllBl- <br />~~t~ ~Ij) 17 <br />ing they vere filled with the big ra1n storm. For this study, the Pargataile <br />River Mar Tl'1l11dad vas selected. Above this station the total capaci.ty of the stock <br />poDis is S18 acre feet. From the U. S. Weather BJreau reports, a precipitatl.on statl.on <br /> <br />vas chosen vhich would give a true pattern of precipitation in the basLn aJ:xwe Trinidad. <br />Fer this purpose, the precipitaUon station at Trinidad was selected. 8IId it was as- <br />sumed that the predpitation fa1:tU1g there also fell on the baSin aoove TriD1dad. <br />From the precipitation record the two mouths or M8;y and June were selected. When there <br />was a heavy rainfall. the rainfa11 vas recorded for the tllO months. AlBo the now of <br /> <br />the Purgatoire River at Trinidad vas recorded for these two months. It was ass1lllled <br /> <br />that in the tvo months, in vhich the heavy rainfall occurred. the stock poms, located <br />on normal:Qr dry channels. bec8llle filled due to flood conditions. Thus, this lIlUCh water <br />never reached ths gaging station at Trinidad. This S18 A. F., which is equal to the <br />total capacity ef the stock poDda, was colllpl1'ed with the dl.scharge at Trinidad. <br />,For cOlllpBrtson, the ratio that this _oum. bears to the now ld; Tr1.D1dad was calcu- <br />lated. 'Ibis percent.age varied from year to year. This is tile percentage that the <br />fiaw llOuld have increased theoretically at Tr:I.ni~ had there been no sto ck ponds aoove <br />the station. ~e reason this increase is called theoretl.cal is bec811se in practice <br /> <br />this much would have naver reached Trinidad in the absence of the stock ponds due to <br />channel losses. These channel lesses would be sanevhere between qO to 100 PEll'cent.. <br /> <br />Thus, in order to knew the actual discharge, one would hllVEl to subtract from the above <br /> <br />- 2 - <br />