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<br />...J~.J.,~ <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />amount of space necessary for the preservation <br />of brood stock of fish that may be planted <br />and established during periods of substantial <br />storage in this facility. On at least two <br />occasions, the Fish and Game Department have <br />stocked this facility with warm water fish, <br />such as white bass, walleyed pike, crappie, <br />sun perch, and channel catfish. These fish <br />grow at a phenomenal rate. Under the provi- <br />sions of the Arkansas River Compact with Kan- <br />sas and downstream users, they are allowed to <br />call for the release of the total amount of <br />flood water stored in the John Martin Dam and <br />as a result, the pool has been drained and the <br />fish population so established, has been lost. <br />We have been discussing the matter of 10,000 <br />or 20,000 acre-feet and I think it is well to <br />distinguish, at this point, that I think our <br />request tOday represents a minimal request for <br />preservation of brood ,stock. Whatever incon- <br />sistency that may have appeared heretofore <br />was probably based, I suspect, on the desire <br />for a larger pool which would be more ideal <br />for the propagation of such stock. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />It is well to note that this facility <br />was built by the corps of Army Engineers. , <br />initially as a flood control project, and that <br />a part of the space available for impoundment <br />of flood waters was retained for regulated.re- <br />leases of stored water for the benefit of ,irri- <br />gators. The cost of the project, in round <br />figures, was fifteen million dollars, This <br />cost was borne by the country's taxpayers in <br />general, and no part of the maintenance of' . <br />this facility is borne by the irrigators as <br />such. During the operation and since the <br />construction of this facility, I have no exact <br />figures as to the impoundments, but I collect- <br />ed some a few minutes ago that indicate between <br />1947 arid 1960 there was released of impounded <br />waters a total of 2,900,000 acre-feet. This <br />is from the records of the Corps of Engineers <br />at John Martin Dam. On a tabulation of bene- <br />fits accruing from the dam, made by the Corps <br />of Engineers, the value of the benefits to the <br />