WSP03052

• File Number: 8143.600.30A
• Description: John Martin Reservoir - Other Studies
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 2/1/1944
• Title: Plan for Operation of Caddoa Project and Administration of Rights in Arkansas River
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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PROPOSED P.LAN

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Recognition of Kansas Interests (Cont1d)

posed contemplates that. when releases of water f'r'Jl1l the irrigation pool

are made for diversion and use by di tohes in Water District 67 in Colora-

do, such additional amounts shall.be released as may be required, together

with and supplementing the State line f'lows entering Kansas, to maintain the

said pre-Caddoa relaticns between the two States;. and in that Yay to as-

sure Kansas, first, that water supplies previously diverted and used in

that state will not be interfered with by the Caddoe. project, DOl' diminish-

ed by ite operations, nor depleted by inoreased diversions in Colorado; and

second, that irrigation interests in Kansas will reoeive their proportion-

ate share of such additional supplies as may become avai lable for increased

use in both States through operations of the Caddoa project.

I,. Total Stateline Flow.

Total state line flows entering Kansas oonsist of and are measur-

ed as the sum ofl (a) Arkansas River at Holly; (b) Wild Horse Creek at

Holly; end (0) oontributions betv.een Holly and the stateline, among whioh

are tributary inflows, including surfaoe runoff, as via Cheyenne Creek;

and regulation, seepage and other return flows, principal among whioh is

the Holly drain at its outlet in Cheyenne Creek near the Stateline.

During the pre-Caddoa 1908 to 1942 period, total stateline flows

including flood waters varied from 30.900 A. F. to l"4I,,OO A.F. and aver-

aged 278,600 A.F. annually. The figure of 260,700 A.F. annually cited in

the Opinion, as the 1908-19,0 average, is in fact the average annual State-

-l111.e-flowduring -1900 to-19,8;