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Colorado 70 miles Wyoming 435 miles Nebraska (to North Platte) 180 miles <br />Drainage area of the North Platte, exclusive of the Laramie River <br />Colorado 1,630 sq. mi. 6% Wyoming 17,540 sq. mi. 63% Nebraska 8,730 sq. mi. 31 %_ Total 27,900 sq. <br />mi. <br />[ Footnote 3 ] The average annual contributions from 1895 to 1939 to the water of the North Platte were <br />computed by the Special Master as follows: <br />North Park 635,100 acre feet Wyoming state line to Pathfinder 1,059,240 acre feet Pathfinder to Whalen <br />390,000 acre feet Whalen to Tri -State Dam 281,940 acre feet Tri -State Dam to Kingsley 1,027,890 acre <br />feet Kingsley to Grand Island 308,200 acre feet <br />By States the contributions were as follows: <br />Colorado 819,220 acre feet 21% Wyoming 1,731,600 acre feet 45% Nebraska 1,336,090 acre feet 34% <br />[ Footnote 4 ] <br />[ Footnote 6 ] Which the Special Master found to be the best single index on the river due to the fact that <br />the main accretion of Colorado and Wyoming are already in the river and the natural flow is not <br />appreciably distorted by storage releases as it is below Pathfinder. <br />[ Footnote 7 ] Year Acre Feet 1904 1262000 <br />[ Footnote 05 ] 1159400 <br />[ Footnote 06 ] 1351000 <br />[ Footnote 07 ] 1851100 <br />[ Footnote 08 ] 918600 <br />[ Footnote 09 ] 2381800 1910 918100 <br />[ Footnote 11 ] 1123400 <br />[ Footnote 12 ] 1820500 <br />[ Footnote 13 ] 1265000 <br />[ Footnote 14 ] 1550900 <br />[ Footnote 15 ] 900200 1916 1253400 <br />[ Footnote 17 ] 2399400 <br />[ Footnote 18 ] 1486100 <br />[ Footnote 19 ] 859700 1920 1870100 <br />[ Footnote 21 ] 1782000 <br />