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<br /> <br />LEEDS. HILL AND JEWETT. INC. <br /> <br /> <br />existing uses be not curtailed under the decree recommended by the <br /> <br />Special Master. The impact of any such restriction on the Upper <br /> <br />Basin as a whole would be more severe on some States than others. <br /> <br />Arizona has only a minor interest in the Upper Basin, and its <br /> <br />foreseeable needs are fully covered by the allocation to it of 50,000 <br /> <br />acre feet per year as provided in Article III of the Upper Colorado <br /> <br />River Basin Compact of 1948. <br /> <br />Under the provisions of that article, Colorado is apportioned <br /> <br />51. 75 per cent of the remainder of the supply available for use each <br /> <br />year in the Upper Basin from the Colorado River System. Depletions <br /> <br />and reservoir losses due to existing and projected developments in <br /> <br />Colorado, if sufficient water were to be physically and legally available, <br /> <br />are given in Table B. It is apparent from this tabulation that the <br /> <br />projected depletions in Colorado would exceed, before 1980, Co1orado1s <br /> <br />share of the 4,000,000 acre feet per year available. <br /> <br />This share would permit full uses on all existing projects, all <br /> <br />Participating Projects, and the Collbran Project. It could permit <br /> <br />development of the proposed Frying Pan-Arkansas Project, but only <br /> <br />by severely limiting the future development of the Blue River Project <br /> <br />of the City of Denver. All of the future participating priority projects <br /> <br />in Colorado would be foreclosed, including the Savory-Pot Hook Project <br /> <br />serving areas in both Wyoming and Colorado and the Animas -La Plata <br /> <br />Project serving areas in both New Mexico and Colorado. Neither would <br /> <br />-7 - <br />