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<br />001586 <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />The additional water made available by the Initial Development, <br /> <br />combinp,d with holdover ~torage and return flows, would provide much of <br /> <br />the water cupply needed to alleviat.e the 1911-1944 avera~e shortage of <br />'~,f ~- <br />i~percent of the e.ti~ated ideal headgate diversion requirements en- <br /> <br />countsred by lands be, t>leen P1~ebl 0 and the Colorado-Kansas boundary. <br />water <br />Although a full supplemental Bt~ply of irrig[1tio,y could not be provided <br /> <br />by the Illi tial <br /> <br />Development, the headgate Ahortage on p~psently irrigated <br />f/.,g, 't<."if"' <br />reduced to an a'Terage of .il.:gd;'J1;'il acre-fAet per ye3T. or <br /> <br />lwc.ds could be <br />?..(;i <br />tFr-percent of <br /> <br />the heacgate diver~ion requirements. The follo\dng table <br /> <br />indice,tce the 1ntprovement which the o:?eration of the Initial Development <br /> <br />would make in the presen t water Bupply. <br /> <br />:Not taken into consideration in the >later suppl~' operationB is the <br /> <br />saving which could be made in evaporation lOBses by the timely operation <br />of the valley resp~voirs (Lake Henry, Lake Merpdith, Dye, Holbrook, <br />1 Horse Creek, Adobe Creek, Great Plains, and Thurston) made possible by <br />the physiCal features of the Initial Development. <br /> <br />.1j <br /> <br />l <br /> <br />I I, <br /> <br />J <br />