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<br /> <br />00114~ <br /> <br />'e <br /> <br />l <br /> <br />-12- <br />Water is produced in this basin in large quantities, muoh of which <br />flows across the state line and benefits the State only in helping to <br />supply the required compact flow at Lee Ferry. For 1931-40, this discharge <br />averaged 1,466,660 acre-feet per year, and for the period 1941-50, it was <br />2,007,000. <br />8.Yamoa ~ White Rivers Water Supply <br />Under the Upper Colorado River Compact, Article XIII, the State of <br />Colorado agrees that it will not "cause the flow of the Yampa River at <br />the lIaybell Gaging Station to be depleted below an aggregate of 5,000,000 <br />acre-feet for any period of ten consecutive years. . .n An annual average <br />of 50,000 acre-feet might be taken by the State of Utah under this <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />agreement. <br /> <br />During the period 1931-1940, the drought years, the Yampa River <br />. passed an average of 852,300 acre-feet into the Green River and out of <br />the State each year. The White River contributed 448,000 acre-feet more. <br />From 1941-1950, the corresponding figures were 1,289,000 and 510,000 acre- <br /> <br />feet. <br /> <br />9. San Juan River Water Supply <br />Under Article XIV of the Upper Colorado River Compact, Colorado <br />"agrees to deliver to the State of New i:exico from the San Juan River <br />and its tributaries which arise in the State of Colorado a quantity of <br />water which shall be sufficient, together with the water originating in <br />the San Juan Basin in the State of New :~exico, to enable the State of New <br />~f:exico to make full use of the water apportioned to the State of New <br /> <br />" <br />.~ ~\exico by Article III" of the Compact. This might go as high as 800,000 <br /> <br />~ <br />