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<br />o <br />C) <br />~.... <br />,..... <br /> <br />w <br /> <br />It ill a 'bank account' of _tel', for colUlenatloD frem ample <br /> <br />_tel' supply yean to those yeaxa of .borta,e. In the dJ:y year. <br /> <br />of 1963 aad 1964, it haa fw:niahed more than one-third of the <br /> <br />total watel: which \tae aed fo" xaiaift9' the crops ana .upplyil'ilJ the <br /> <br />citl.. &Ad domestic uaers in the nietxict. <br /> <br />In t.he .elleon of 1963, the ;)ietxict furnished 302,000 acre <br /> <br />feet to Ua allot.t_. which amount was JS. 6% of the ",atex uae4 <br /> <br />to ra18. th 1963 ue.'s crope. '!'he 1964 percentaqlt baa been <br /> <br />qreater. <br /> <br />'1"1\8 Uuted Stat.. u truete. for t.he ",at.el: \Wen. <br /> <br /> <br />Leval tit.le to the wate&' ri\JhU, until ropaymeAt: of cost. 18 <br /> <br />aompllh, ",111 x_in in t.he Uulted State.. Dur.ln9 t.hat ~:riod it <br /> <br />will be tXWIt._ for the actual appropriat.ors, to-wit I Diatrict: <br /> <br />wat.r-\IIIOJr8. 'i'be u. s. ia under duty to repr_ent. t.helD in water <br /> <br />adjudications and to protect their relative prioriti... <br /> <br />Where tM federal qovel:nment hu not pre.entad tu.o rights <br /> <br />for adjudication 1b atate courts, aa on the east elope stream <br /> <br />adjudicatiolls, the Dist.rict haa done 80. The D1atd.ct alao d_ <br /> <br />f.ft4ed fOle tbe wtes- users in the Sl1IlIBit county Diat.rict. COurt, <br /> <br />and 1n iu review, the Supr.... Court on the Blu8 River ca.e <br /> <br />130 Colo 375. <br /> <br />RePona bv ..,ter <:on8ervanay Dindet. <br />The 1937 water Consenanay Act dia not requi:rG the Beard <br /> <br />of Directon to malee reports to its taxpayers <1M water ellot- <br /> <br />ment. ownen. Almual reports are 111&48 by the 8o.roS'lI aecret.ry- <br /> <br />IIIlUUlg'ltle aM by the Boud-appoiDted attorne>> to the BoArd of Di- <br /> <br />-,-- <br />