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<br />a. Maintain Doctrine of Prior Appropriation System - South Platte River basin is <br />over-appropriated, and existing body of laws, policies and rules are not perfect but adequate to <br />protect vested water rights. <br /> <br />b. Return flows must be maintained - but note that retum flows are being <br />affected by lined gravel pits, lined canals, more efficient irrigation systems, changes in cropping <br />patterns, and several other factors, and these changes do not currently require maintenance of <br />historical return flows. <br />