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<br />, ' <br /> <br />ot the South Platte RiTer by Colorado and it. citizena,wis dia- <br />m15.84 ane there is no other pending or ~reat.ned litigation <br />en this important river. <br /> <br />llF.JlORAlfDUll <br />The acmpaet concludes negotiations and continuous <br />atudie3 of water supply, engineering and other problema since <br />1916. It 1s ~e succ8ssful result ot probably the ttrat effort <br />to uee the treaty powers ot the states in the 6ettl~ent of <br />interstate controversies resl)ecting the watera of wE:atern streams., <br />The changed river conditions. due to davelopment in <br />Colorado 5ince 1859, make yoaeiole theconclusion of a compact <br />between the two states which will protect the ~ater uaera in <br />.eb~skaJ without injury to present andfuture users in Colorado. <br />and will permit ~ractically unlimited expansion and deTelopmen~ <br />in Colorado. <br />A rsviell ot the fa.cta and of' the history ot the <br />stream is easent1a1 to an understanding at the eompact. <br />DeTelopmeat 11.'1 ColG)r~d.Q, fortunately, commenced noar <br />the head.waters of the South Platte 11 i t.h resultant ltland-storag.- <br />of' ~a.ter OTe:r an 11im1enae a.creage long prior to June 14, 1897, the <br />a.llepd da. te 0 f commencement of the canal of' the tYe3tern Irriga- <br />\101'1 Diatrict, the pr1nci-pa.l elaimant in Nebraska. The flo" <br />or return and seepage waters coming baok to the river from. irri- <br />gation of Colorado land3, has resulted in a constant 5upply at the <br />interstate line~ This flo~ 1a increasing and will soon be suffi- <br />cient to care for the full d.emands of Nebraska as cietarmined '01 <br /> <br />-9- <br />