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<br />.. <br /> <br />- 3 - <br /> <br />that the average runoff of 1938 and 1939 for the Laramie River was approximately <br />the same as the long-time average. Hydrographers from Wyoming were in the area <br />in 1937 and 1938, and their records o~ diversions have been considered to be <br />reasonably indicative of conditions in those years. <br />Taking all these factors into consideration, it is estimated that without <br />any limitation upon meadowland diversions, these ditches would probably divert <br />about 15,000 acre feet more than their actual diversions in the 1942-1949 period, <br />or a total of approximately 35,000 acre feet in an average year. <br />The data shown in Table 2, together with the attached hydrographs, indi- <br />cate that if unlimited meadowland diversions were permitted, the additional <br />amounts of water 1'Tould not be applied later in the season than has been the <br />average practice since 1942, but that the headgates of many of the ditches might <br />be opened a week or ten days earlier than r.as been the case during the 1942-1949 <br />period. <br />These data also indicate that of the 4,845 acres of irrigated land in <br />Colorado, on which the division agreement was based, a total of 1,040 acres <br />would receive practically no more water under unlimited diversion conditions <br />than has been applied during the period of the agreement, since the ditches <br />which supply this acreage divert generally from tributaries with limited water <br />supplies. <br />Of the remaining 3,805 acres which would probably use more water if there <br />were no limit on diversions, 160 acres have receiv~C: :.10 irrigation water during <br />the 1942-1949 period. This situation has been due to various causes, such as <br />absence of ~mers, partial irrigation by flood water, or the choice of the <br />owner to use the allotted 1v.ater on other tracts. The unused portion of the water <br />