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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I received from these Fort Lyon members. In this way, the Fort Lyon members would be the beneficiaries of the water. Table 7 shows the amounts of project water that was diverted into the Fort Lyon Canal during water years 1980-94, and derives the amounts of water returned by these LA WMA members. The project water diverted into the Fort Lyon Canal averaged 13,154 acre-feet per year, and ranged from none during the wet years of the 1980's to 42.422 acre-feet in 1989. During water years 1990-94, the project water diverted for LAWMA members averaged 2.484 acre-feet annually. The return flows in this table were estimated at 40 percent of the diversions consistent with the existing District policy. They averaged 993 acre-feet annually during 1990-94, and accrued to the Arkansas River in the various segments above the X-V ,headgate and to the Wiley, Pleasant Valley, and May Valley drains above the Amity Canal. Stubbs Riahts In 1989, LAWMA acquired the water rights for the Stubbs portion of the Sisson-Stubbs Ditch and two wells that were used in connection with the Stubbs right. These rights include the Stubbs portion of the Sisson-Stubbs Article II Account in John Martin Reservoir. The Stubbs right, which was confirmed in the November 4, 1909 decree of the Bent County District Court, amounts to 7.2 cfs under a December 1,1895 priority. Historically, this Stubbs right was used through the Sisson-Stubbs Canal. The Sisson-Stubbs Canal diverted from the south bank of the Arkansas River in sec. 14, T.23 S., R.43 W., and extended generally east a distance of about 5 miles. As the name of the canal suggests, the Sisson right also was used through the Sisson-Stubbs Canal. This right amounted to 18 cfs under a December 1, 1891 priority. The two rights were under separate ownership and used on separate lands, although a rotational system was used to distribute the water between the two rights. Because of difficulties in operating and maintaining the diversion facilities on the Arkansas River, a pumping station was established on the river in the early 1950's a short distance downstream from the diversion dam to assist in diverting the water available under the two rights. The diversion facilities were destroyed during the 1965 flood and were not rebuilt, although some water may have diverted from the river since then through a portable pump. 18