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<br />. <:") <br />",C:J <br />~.... <br />W <br />CIO <br />W <br /> <br />..: <br /> <br />...14- <br /> <br />CADOOA PROJECT <br /> <br />8. Upstream Bene!~ (Cont'd) <br /> <br />ineffeotive, and could not be exeroised to clair.l another or a second sup- <br /> <br />ply of water away from junicr priorities of ditches upstream. Under suoh <br /> <br />conditions the ditches upstream were authorized, under State law~.and in <br /> <br />accordance with their respeotive deoreed but unsatisfied priority rights. <br /> <br />to divert from the river all the stream flows available for diversion by <br /> <br />them, allowing none to now dov.n to Water Di strict 67 exoept such flows as <br /> <br />"ere undivertible and unusable upstream. <br /> <br />This long-establiehed system of water ri~ht administration, un- <br /> <br />del' the laws of Colorado, will prevail after Gaddoa. at all times when the <br /> <br />priority rights of ditches in Water District 67 are similarly satisfied <br /> <br />by supplies of water impounded in the irrigation pooL By thus shifting <br /> <br />the burden of supplying the ri ghts and needs cf ditohes in Hater Distriot <br />67 from the junior pricrities .of upstream ditches to the irrigation pool, <br /> <br />the ditohes upstream are enabled to make additional diversions, and in that <br /> <br />my scme of the cons ervati on benefits of the Caddoa projeot will be re- <br /> <br />fleoted into upstream areas, as intended, and be apportioned among upstream <br /> <br />appropriators. <br /> <br />Manifestly, at times when the irrigation pool is empty; no oon- <br /> <br />servation benef'its will aocrue upstream. sinoe the priority rights of <br /> <br />ditches in Water District 67, being unsatisfied, will be asserted against <br /> <br />thOse upstream, under such conditions,.in the future the same as in the <br /> <br />past. <br /> <br />Even when water is impotmded in the irrigation pool there will <br /> <br />be times when ocnsel'vation benefits cannot be reflected upstream, as for <br />