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<br /> <br />'0 <br /> <br />-2- <br /> <br /> <br />---" - .... <br /> <br />,0 () 1134 <br />I ' <br /> <br />f..: <br />year throuqh the main Item of the Colorado River and its tributaries. <br />The ~oentaqe of oontribution to thill total by each of the several' <br />basins ill as followlI:* <br /> <br />Yampa & White Riverll . . . . . . . . . . 19.3 peroent <br />. . . . . <br />I.in Stem of Colorado. 31.7 . <br />. . . . . . . . . . . . . <br />GunniBon River 21.4 . <br />. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <br />Dolorell River. 7.5 .. <br />. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <br />San Juan River 20.1 Ii <br />. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <br /> <br />In order to UN the portion of this water that Colorado is entitled <br />to, two thinqs must be done: <br />(1) Small damll mullt be construoted hiqh upstream on tributaries in <br />. .,lor&do to store water and divert it to proposed P!lrtici]:)llting projects. <br />Such projectll. as the term is used here, are irrigation projectll, and <br />partioipate in the' earninqs of the larqe storage projeots mentioned in <br />the next paraqraph. <br />(2) Cyolio storaqe (IItorage of suffioient capacity to hold water <br />throughout a complete weather cycle) must be.,conlltructed on the <br />river 110 that Lower Basin States may be aSllured eaoh year of the share <br />awarded to them by the Colorado River Compact, and secondly, so that <br />electrical energy may be produced to pay the, cost of this cyclic storage <br />plus, in a larqe measure, the COlt of the projects mentioned under (1). <br /> <br />. -DepleUon of Surface Water Supplies of Colorado West of Continental <br />. Divide by Leedll, Hill and Jewett, Bulletin No.1, Surface Water Series <br />~lor~do Water Conllervation Board. ' <br /> <br />. <br />