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<br />00 <br />:..0 <br />00 <br />'J <br /> <br />Creek. The water commissioner for District 40 does not report this <br /> <br />ditch, but states that it seldam carries more than 4 or 5 second- <br /> <br />feet. Its owners claim it diverts 30 second-foet for SGQe days on <br /> <br />the peak of the flood. This water is storable, whenever the reauire- <br /> <br />ment of project canals can be met by inflow below the drainage area <br /> <br />commanded by Haystack Reserv"ir. <br /> <br />Both diversions are Made under very late priorities and <br /> <br />should be terminated promptly after the spring flood to avoid inter- <br /> <br />ference with prior ,rights downstream. <br /> <br />It does not seem probable that further diversions from <br /> <br />Owens or Buzzard Creeks are justified by the quantity of water which <br /> <br />could be obtained during the period between June 10 (average date <br /> <br />when water originating below Haystack ReservGir becomes inadequate <br /> <br />far project needs) and July 10 which is the last record date fer <br /> <br />the Owens Creek diversion. <br /> <br />The system diverting from the 1fuddy Creek drainage can be <br /> <br />con siderably expanded to reach other srrnll streams an the hcad- <br /> <br />waters of Muddy Creek, but the diversion operations at an elevation <br /> <br />close to 10,000 feet Will be attended with r.luch expense, uncertainty <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />and high canal losses which always accompanies operation of canals <br /> <br />at such elevations. <br /> <br />Probably these two diversions can be ~ade to yield in <br /> <br />the average year as much as 3,000 acre-feet of water most of which <br /> <br />41 <br />