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<br />Like reservoir operations and releases, irrigation company diversions, operations and "by- <br />passes" can have a major effect on downstream flood flows and inundation of floodplain lands and <br />property. On the Roaring Fork, Rio Grande, Cache La Poudre, North Fork of the South Platte, <br />Lower South Platte and Upper, Blue, Colorado, and Lower Arkansas Rivers, the irrigation <br />diversions assisted in the reduction of flood flows. State agencies have no jurisdiction over these <br />private irrigation companies as to their flood protection responsibilities during flood. These flood <br />protection benefits must be viewed as incidental. This flood protection can only be obtained <br />through fiiendly negotiations and mutual agreements for securing flood control benefits. Local <br />governments cannot take such flood protection for granted annually without implementing better <br />management practices. <br />