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<br />'0. <br /> <br />-l,- <br /> <br />--~- <br />Co..) <br />Q) <br />~ <br /> <br />CADDOA PROJECT <br /> <br />7. Project Bene.fits (Cont'd) <br /> <br />at Caddoa, such benefits diminish with inoreased distances downstream from <br /> <br />the Caddoa projeot. <br /> <br />(b) Conservation b enefi ts, involving heretofore tmappropriated <br /> <br />waters are created by oapturing and impounding undi verti ble flood waters <br /> <br />and tmusable winter flowe whioh, except for storage at too project, v<<>uld <br /> <br />be unused and VIl-sted. but whioh upon being released create benefits through <br /> <br />inoreased water utilization. In seaSons and oyoles of drouth, the oonser- <br /> <br />vation benefits will be small or absent, and will be maximum during those <br /> <br />periods when above"average preoipitation over plaills drainage. areas above <br /> <br />the project caUse large alllounts of runoff and flows that are undi vertible <br /> <br />by upstream di tohes. <br /> <br />As distinguished from flood control benefits, which will accrue <br /> <br />only dowstt'ee.m and more largely tci Kansas, and as distinguished from regu- <br /> <br />lation benef'its, which also will accrue only downstream but more largely <br /> <br />to ColoradO, the benefits of water conservation. within limits, are sub- <br /> <br />ject to arbitrary alloc ation between the tv<<> States, and of' Color ado 's <br /> <br />proportionate share a portion thereof. under the plan herein proposed, will <br /> <br />be reflected into areas upstrealll from the Caddoa projeot. <br /> <br />8. upstream Benefits. <br /> <br />Prior to Caddoa, at times when substantial inflov.s to the river <br /> <br />via tributaries. such as the Purgatoire River, satisfied the needs of <br /> <br />lends end crops under ditches downstream from Caddoa in Water Distriot 67. <br /> <br />the- pr1ority"f.i. ght",- of said -di1;che-s-were-c onsidered-to-besatisfied- or~ --- <br />