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REPUBLICAN RIVER COMPACT <br />Decemher 31, 1942 <br />Signatory States: Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska <br />Colorado Commissioner: State Engineer <br />Major Purposes: <br />1. Provide for most ef~cient use of water for multiple purposes (Art. I) <br />2. Remove all present and future con~roversy (Art. I) <br />3. Promote interstate comity (Art. I) <br />4. Recognize that the most efficient utilization of waters in the basin is for beneficial <br />consumptive use (Art. I) <br />5. Promote joint action between the U.S. and the states in the ef~cient use of water and in the <br />control of floods (Art. I) <br />Important Provisions: <br />1. Allocation of waters are based on a computation of average, annual virgin water supply in the <br />respective streams. (Art. III) <br />2. Colorado is allocated the beneficial use of the following waters on an annual basis: <br />North Fark of the Republican 10,000 acre-feet <br />Arikaree River 15,400 acre-feet <br />South Fork of the Republican 25,400 acre-feet <br />Beaver Creek 3,300 acre-feet <br />Total 54,100 acre-feet <br />plus the entire supply of Frenchman Creek and Red Willow Creek in Colorado. (Art. IV) <br />3. Kansas is allocated on an annual basis 190,300 acre-feet of beneficial consumptive use and <br />Nebraska 234,500 acre-feet. (Art. N) <br />4. No provision is made for any debit or credit system, but provisions are made for readjustment <br />of historical, annual virgin flows should they vary more than ] 0% from those set forth in the <br />Compact. Reallocations can be made on these readjusted flows. (Art. III) <br />l0 <br />