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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />-," r' 0 <br />,1 u "oJ <br /> <br />Water Rights <br /> <br />From Kersey, Colorado, to the Colorado-Nebraska State Line, <br />~ater rights have been adjudicated for 8,041.06 second-feet of direct <br />flo~ and for 296,453 acre-feet of storage rights. The use of these <br />rights, as measured by historic diversions, \olas recognized in making <br />the analysis of storable flo\ol. Under State law, these rights must <br />be recognized before storage in Narrows Reservoir ~ill be permitted. <br /> <br />The Colorado-Nebraska Compact requires that the 120 second-foo'c <br />right of the Western Canal under its priority of June 14, 1897, be <br />recognized during the summer months by those ditches belo~ Balzac, <br />Colorado. The proposed Narrows Unit is not affected by the Compact <br />since it is above Balzac. The Unit will not injure the Western Canal <br />Right, ho~ever, because return flo~s to the River will increase the <br />supply available for diversion during lo~ flow periods of the irriga- <br />tion season. <br /> <br />With the purchase of land that will be inundated by the reservoir, <br />the area served by the Weldon Valley Canal will be taken out of <br />production. For the purpose of this report, it is assumed the Weldon <br />Valley Canal water rights ~ill be purchased with the land and the <br />project will thus acquire the right to 165.00 second-feet having on <br />October 26, 1881, priority. Weldon Valley has historically obtained <br />an average yield of 32,900 acre-feet per year from this right. <br /> <br />The primary project water supply ~ill be derived from the storage <br />of surplus flo~s, i.e., flo~s ~hich are not no~ being diverted. The <br />Storage filing for Narro~s Reservoir has been made but has not yet <br />become adjudicated. Studies indicate that about 188,000 acre-feet <br />per year are potentially available to the project from surplus flows. <br /> <br />WATER REQUIREMENTS <br /> <br />Total ~ater requirements ~ere computed for each ditch in the <br />Lo~er South Platte Water Conservancy District. For computing <br />requirements, the conservancy district ~as divided into subbasins <br />Band C. The Fort Morgan, Deuel and Snyder, and Upper Platte and <br />Beaver Canals are in subbasin B, which has a requirement of <br />2.3l+ acre-feet per acre, and the balance of the ditches in the <br />conservancy district are in subbasin C ~hich has a requirement of <br />2.12 acre-feet per acre. The requirements were based on the total <br />classified area illlder each ditch as reported in the October 1957 <br />status report. The classified area reported in the Project Lands <br />Appendix of this Report includes only that part of the classified <br />area ~hich is included in the Lo~er South Platte Water Conservancy <br /> <br />4 <br />