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<br />. <br /> <br />002538 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />acre-feet annually. <br /> <br />Colo. Exh. 4*, Table 5.8. <br /> <br />The average for the <br /> <br />last 20 year period which included wet years is still only 117,823 <br />acre-feet. Id., calculated for years 1966-85. <br /> <br />Earlier reports show considerably higher flows. For <br />example, the Interim Report of the engineering committee prepared <br />during the compact negotiations showed that Stateline flows <br />averaged 280,800 acre-feet annually over the 1908-42 period. Jt. <br />Exh. 5, Table D at 16. Even during an earlier dry decade, 1931-40, <br />they averaged 146,200 acre-feet. Id. In a 1944 settlement plan <br />proposed by C. L. Patterson, the Chief Engineer of the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board, average Stateline flows for 1908-38 were <br /> <br />given as 260,700 acre-feet per year. Jt. Exh. 8 at 22. Colorado <br />also submitted these same flow numbers to the Special Master in <br />1941 during earlier Supreme Court litigation. Kan. Exh. 379 at 2. <br /> <br />Similar figures were used in a 1961 Bureau of Reclamation <br /> <br />Report for 1921-56 showing an average of 262,000 acre-feet <br /> <br />annually. <br /> <br />Colo. Exh. 113 at 6. <br /> <br />According to a 1968 report <br /> <br />prepared for the Colorado State Legislature, Stateline flows for <br /> <br />1924 -42 averaged 194,000 acre-feet . la/ <br /> <br />Jt. Exh. 91 at 10. <br /> <br />A <br /> <br />1974 USGS report shows an annual average of 210,000 acre-feet for <br /> <br /> <br />the years 1941-65. Jt. Exh. 78. In 1975 the Colorado Division of <br /> <br />Water Resources issued a report which compared average Stateline <br /> <br />flows for the periods 1935-50 and 1951-72, showing a decline from <br /> <br />ll/ This average excluded the extraordinarily high flows of 1942 <br />which were estimated at more than 1.3 million acre-feet. ' <br /> <br />.1366n <br /> <br />-58- <br />