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the river valley, and deliver it by gravity to direct use or <br /> storage sites on the High Plains. Additional diversions would be <br /> made downstream at the enlarged Prewitt Reservoir Inlet Canal and <br /> at a newly constructed diversion facility near Sedgwick. Again , <br /> the water diverted at these sites would be pumped out of the <br /> river valley , then delivered by gravity to direct use or storage <br /> reservoirs on the High Plains . <br /> An additional facility would be constructed to pump water <br /> into the North Sterling Reservoir Inlet Canal east of Sterling . <br /> This facility would divert return flows which accrue to the river <br /> reach between Balzac and Sterling and deliver them to North <br /> Sterling Reservoir , allowing Trans-County to divert equal amounts <br /> upstream by exchange. <br /> Finally, diversion and storage facilities would be con- <br /> structed to capture and retain the precipitation runoff which <br /> occurs in the High Plains area itself. Currently, much of this <br /> water is evaporated from shallow pond areas , or is collected by <br /> the numerous intermittent streams which flow out of Colorado into <br /> Nebraska and Kansas . <br /> 1.1 .3 History of Project <br /> In 1975, a group of High Plains farmers, ranchers, and <br /> businessmen formed Trans-County Water , Inc. (originally under the <br /> name W. Y. Association) , in order to investigate , pursue, and <br /> develop the project. Legal counsel and engineering consultants <br /> were employed soon thereafter to begin investigating the project <br /> and to assist in obtaining the water rights necessary for <br /> development of the project. The Water Court for Water Division <br /> 2 <br />