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I MR. SPARKS: MR. MILENSICI: MR. SPARKS: MR. MILENSKI: MR. SPARKS: I MR. MILENSKI: .L::J'%/ makes quite a difference of. where this water comes from. I mean, when you start pulling it by all these headgates and you have to leave so much in there and you haven't got any river to carry it with, I think that's the thing that bothers the i rriga tors more than anything." "Your point is, I think, Frank, that perhaps we would be turning at a given point 50 cubic feet of water above the reservoir and only 10 was getting into the reservoir." "If that much gets in. The river goes to nothing at times." "But again we could measure the inflow. We could only get credit for the inflow whatever it may be." I~lell, for instance, we have to hold a gauge over our dam to satisfy downstream users and at the present time we are running five-tenths over the dam. If you had, we'll say 30 feet on top of it, and we allowed for that, if the river was down, the river would take up more than that to where the ditches would finally be furnishing the 30 feet. That comes just automatic because the river runs from nothing to just as large as it wants to. Many times you can walk across it with your shoes on and never get your feet wet. I'Ve seen it that way several times. The problem of where you get it from. makes an awful lot of difference as to how it affects the irrigators." "That's very true. As I stated, that's a matter for the courts to decide. What limitations they would place upon the change of point of diversion. Secondly, the admin- istration would have to be under the juris- diction of the State Engineer and the Arkan- sas Compact Administration." "There would be another thing. When you were down to supporting just the fish pool, . your dam would have to be manned 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, I would think, if there are any fluctuations and I don't think they