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<br />. <br /> <br />002532 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Under the compact, neither state is allocated a specific <br />share of the water stored in the conservation pool. Rather, such <br />stored water constitutes a common resource to be released <br />" upon demands by Colorado and Kansas concurrently or sep- <br />arately at any time during the summer storage period." Article <br />v-c. Specific release rates are provided for each state, depending <br />upon the amount of water in storage. The only limit, however, upon <br />the total amount of water that either state may take is the require- <br />ment that such water must be applied promptly to beneficial use, <br />unless storage thereof downstream is authorized by the compact <br />administration. Article V-E (2). Thus, water demanded by the first <br />state to call automatically reduces the supply available to the <br /> <br />other state. <br /> <br />As a result, both states generally have demanded <br /> <br />simultaneous releases at maximum rates in order to ensure that they <br />would receive their share of stored water, even though all parties <br />might not be ready for delivery. Jt. Exh. 129 at 47; RT Vol. 66 at <br />54; RT Vol. 81 at 127-29; RT Vol. 133 at 76. <br /> <br />In practice, operation under the compact resulted in the <br />storage of most, if not all, of the inflow from November 1 to <br />March 31. At the end of the winter storage season, except in rare <br />years such as those following the 1965 flood, the reservoir storage <br />was completely drawn down early in the irrigation season, sometimes <br />by mid-April. Jt. Exh. 129 at 47. <br /> <br />In 1980 the Arkansas River Compact Administration adopted <br /> <br /> <br />a resolution concerning the method of operating John Martin <br /> <br />136672 -50- <br />