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<br />" <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />002530 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />SECTION V <br /> <br />DESCRIPTION OF MAJOR STORAGE AND DIVERSION WORKS <br /> <br />A. Surface Diversion SYstems. <br /> <br />Surface flows of the Arkansas River in both Colorado and <br />Kansas are diverted and distributed for irrigation through a number <br />of canal companies. Often they are referred to as "ditches," but <br />this friendly colloquialism greatly underplays the size of their <br />facilities and operations. Colorado calculated that surface <br />diversions by the various canal companies between Pueblo and the <br />Stateline averaged 884,881 acre-feet annually for the 1950-85 <br />period. Colo. Exhs. 838, 839. These systems include major <br />diversion structures, as well as distribution and off-stream <br />storage facilities. In Colorado there are 23 canal systems with <br />rights to take water from the Arkansas River between Pueblo and the <br />Stateline. Nine of these canals are located below John Martin <br />Reservoir. <br /> <br />In Kansas, beginning about 1880, eight canals were <br />developed with rights to divert Arkansas River water in the reach <br />from just above the Stateline to Garden City. All of the data on <br />Stateline flows have been adjusted to include Kansas diversions on <br />the Colorado side of the line. Only six of those canals continue <br /> <br />,1366n <br /> <br />-44- <br />