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<br />Ark~Gas River for irrigation purposes, and for such rights as have been 0..0-
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<br />qui red for domestio and industrial purposes_ As a matter of f~Dt there is
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<br />a constantly greater de~o..nd for these waters for the maintenance of the ax1et-
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<br />ing agrioultural development. It is notorious that the limited water sup-
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<br />plies of the Arkansas Rivor have been the source of oonstant interstate I1ti-
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<br />gation between Colorado and Kansas resulting in a reoent deoision of the Su-
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<br />prems Court of the United States. Follo~ng this deoision of the Supreme
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<br />Court there has been initiated compact negotiations, with the consent of Con-
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<br />gress, whioh ~ll have to do with the releases of water from tpe John Martin
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<br />Reservoir for uses in the two States. To subtract fram the water available
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<br />for present uses will oomplioate and make more diffioult the amioable ad-
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<br />justmen~ by the States of this problem, and may render impossible the settle-
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<br />ment of this ~rolonged interstate controversy through the operation of Cad-
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<br />daa Reservoir. It will be shawn by the factual analysis of the water aitu-
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<br />ation hereinafter contained, that the reoervation of water for the mainte-
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<br />nanoa of a fish pool will deny to water users in both States the benefits,
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<br />for which the oonservation pool for irrigation were intended when the pro-
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<br />jeot Was authorized by Congress. Further, may it be pointed out that the
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<br />existing administrative difficulties incident to the application of water
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<br />for agrioultural purposea in the two States, will be seriously oomplioated
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<br />through the maintenance of a fish pool.
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<br />There is another situation which oannot be disregarded in the
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<br />consideration of the matters here involved. No existing reoreational and
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<br />fishing opportunities have been destroyed by the projeot. The erratio
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<br />strewn flow of the Arkansas River in the vicinity of this project, and the
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<br />silt burden of the river, hAa made impossible the maintenanoe of fish life
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