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<br />L; <br /> <br />:'! <br /> <br />~~ <br /> <br />Rifle Valley Canals <br /> <br />Ten canals with rights prior to that of Grass Valley Ditch <br /> <br />would have to be served from Rifle Gap Reservoir. Rifle Gap <br /> <br />Reservoir would be operated in such a manner as to provide the <br /> <br />same supply as in the past for all Rifle ditches both as to <br /> <br />quantity and distribution up to the limit of their decreed <br /> <br />rights. In determining the releases from Rifle Gap Reservoir <br /> <br />necessary to meet this demand use has been made of the <br /> <br />unusually complete records kept by the state of the diversions <br /> <br />of these ditches and account has also been taken of redivertible <br /> <br />return flows of Rifle Creek. <br /> <br />Rifle Canyon Canal, one of the principal ditches below <br /> <br />Rifle Gap Reservoir, was recently decreed a right to divert 10 <br /> <br />second-feet from Rifle Creek during the winter. As this <br /> <br />right would be exercised only for filling cisterns and stock <br /> <br />ponds the canal would be operated not to exceed three times <br /> <br />during a winter for periods not exceeding five days each. <br /> <br />Winter draft for this canal would therefore be small. Total <br /> <br />winter releases required from Rifle Reservoir for this canal <br /> <br />49 <br />