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<br />" '" <br /> <br />-2- <br /> <br />gates were re-opened and additional amounts of water were taken b:y thl~ meadow- <br /> <br /> <br />land ditches a~d the transmountain users. <br /> <br />Beginning in 1942, a year to year agreement has been in effect, under <br /> <br />which the 39,750 acre feet annually has been equally divided between the in- <br /> <br /> <br />basin users and the exporters. The meadowland users have been diverting under <br /> <br /> <br />allotments made on the basis of 4 acre feet per acre fo;..~ their irrigated lands. <br /> <br /> <br />This summary of uses has been made to assist in the interpretation of <br /> <br /> <br />attached Table 1, which shows diversions from the Laramie River and tributaries <br /> <br /> <br />in Colorado, including all available records of meadowland diversions which are <br /> <br /> <br />considered reasonably accurate, with averages shown for pertinent periods. <br /> <br /> <br />Table 2 lists the meadO'nland ditches in Colorado and summarizes available <br /> <br /> <br />data relative to the dates of opening and closing the headgates of these ditches <br /> <br /> <br />for the years 1937 and 1938, and the amounts diverted by each ditch during the <br /> <br /> <br />years 1937, 1938 and 1939. Since 1939 was one of the lIhorse racE~1I ;>rears, the <br /> <br /> <br />opening and closing datE~s were not considered typical. For the purpose of com- <br /> <br />parison, the averages for the period 1942 to 1949, during which ~rears the <br /> <br /> <br />division agreement has been in effect, are sho".'ffi for ea.ch of the ditches with <br /> <br /> <br />respect to opening and closing dates and amolmts divert,ed. <br /> <br /> <br />With regard to this table, it was recognized that adequate measuring de- <br /> <br /> <br />vices were not installed in all of the ditches until the season of 1939; that <br /> <br /> <br />the opening dates :3hO""m for 1937 are generally app:c oxi mate , the information in <br /> <br />most cases having been furnished from memory by the Colorado Water Commissioner; <br /> <br /> <br />that it has been reported that the w'ater users ~'!ere urged in 1937 and 1938 to <br /> <br /> <br />divert as much wat,er as was possible, which accounts for some unusual opening <br /> <br />dates (as early as late April in 1938); that 1938 was a year with a water supplJr <br /> <br />on both main river and tributaries, which was considerably above ave:rage; and <br />