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<br />. <br /> <br />002531 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />to be in operation. Diversions for 1950-85 averaged 77,742 acre- <br />feet annually. Kan. Exh. 371*. <br /> <br />B. Wells. <br /> <br />In addition to the surface diversion systems. a large <br />number of wells have been drilled in both states, most of them <br />after the compact was approved in 1949. In 1985, the Colorado <br />evidence showed a total of 2,057 permitted and decreed irrigation <br />wells. Colo. Exh. 851. These were large wells of 100 gpm or more <br />pumping from the Arkansas River and its associated alluvium. In <br />Kansas, a 1989 study found 648 wells located within the various <br />ditch service areas, of which 175 pump from the river alluvium. <br />Kan. Exh. 361*. The remainder of these Kansas wells draw water <br />from the deeper Ogallala Aquifer. <br /> <br />C. Canal Company Storaoe Reservoirs. <br /> <br />Four of the canal systems in Colorado (Holbrook, Fort <br />Lyon, Amity and the Colorado Canal) have off-channel reservoirs <br />providing storage. These include Lake Henry and Lake Meredith; the <br />Holbrook, Dye, Adobe Creek and Horse Creek Reservoirs; and the <br />Great Plains Reservoir System. Colo. Exh. 824. The total storage <br />capacity of t.hese various private systems is in the order of <br />800,000 acre-feet. Colo. Exh. 3 at 3-12. However, they are <br /> <br />AlI36672 <br /> <br />-45- <br />