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CADDOA RESERVOIR STUDY June 1940 - --AUTHORIZATION; --- -- -- _u --- -- --- __u --- o "'-1 Data regarding the Caddoa Reservoir Projeot and ini'ormation oon- ~ l\:) QO .... cerning stream flaws, ditoh diversions and related matters, herein assembled, and the ini'ormation summarized in attached tabulations, have been oompiled and analyzed at the request of Counsel for the State of Colorado in the oase of Colorado v. Kansas. This so-oa1led Caddoa Reservoir Study is intended to assist in the preparation and negotiation of a oonsent deoree, determining the relative rights of the respeotive States in and to the waters of the Ark- ansas River, and defining the allocations betvteen them of water stored in Caddo a reservoir. STIPULATION. Under date of Deo. 18, 1933, the two States entered into a stipu- lation, agreeing to oooperate in the promotion of oonstruotion by the United States of Caddo a dam, aoross the main ohannel of the Arkansas River, same fifty-eight miles west of and upstream from the interstate line between Colorado and KansasJ and agreeing. so far as the two States might, by said Stipulation, to certain allooations between them of the waters whioh might be stored in Caddoa reservoir, - it being understood that said al1ooations were subjeot to suoh operation of said dam and reservoir by the United States as might be neoessary in oonneotion wi. th the purpose of flood oontrol and the prevention of flood damages. The said Stipulation, subjeot to suoh revision and amendment as may be desirable or neoessary, is expected to form the basis of the proposed oonsent deoree. Its provi si Olla, in so far as they relate to faotual matters and to the operation of Caddoa reservoir, are found in paragraphs 2, 3,4, 5, 6 and 9, on pages 3 and 4 next following. -2-