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..... ., .' .:, .) \4)~'1D:&~ 10 WATER SUPPLY .. The water supply for the Interstate Division of the North Platte n Project is obtained from the North Platte river under a priority of 1904. 1 Flood waters are stored in the four reservoirs, for project use when the natural flow of the river is insufficient to supply both the proje~t and those rights senior in time to the project right. The Pathfinder Dam is located in the channel ~f the North Platte River, about 45 miles west and South of the City of Casper, Wyoming. The Reservoir has a capacity of 1,070,000 ~cre feet at the spillway crest, The Guernsey Drun is loc~ted in the channel of the North Pl~tte River about 168 miles down streno from the Pathfinder reservoir. The' Guernsey Reservoir has a cap~city of about 58,000 acre feet. This is less than the .f.l designed capacity but the difference between the present and the designed capacity is now occupied by silt deposits. o The Lake Alice reservoir is an ~ff channel reservoir and is located about eleven miles n~rth and esat of the city of Scottsbluff, Nebr~ska. And has a capacity of about 11,500 acre feet. The reservoir is also used as a regul~ting basin for the main canal, The Lake Min~tare Reservoir is an off channel reservoir, it is located about seven miles north of thc town of 1iin~,tare. The reservoir hc.s a designed cap~city of ~bout 65,000 acre feet. Nater for storage in both the Lake Alice and Lake Uinat~re Reservoirs is carried through the Interstate Canal a distance of niney-five and 100 miles respectively. There are two other storage dams, which were recently constructed on the N,rth Plhttc River, nCJ:1ely; the Seminoe ane. thQ "lcwa, neiJ:;her of the resel"Volrs el"e""",d~ be""use of th.)se dar.1S, are for st.orage of water fOr" use 1