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Annual Report For 1967 [n order to relieve a nood situation that has caused several breaks in our canal over the years we have asked the Soil Conservation engineers to make a survey and ouUine the most practical way to relieve this con- dition. When this survey is completed and apprm'ed we hope to set up a project with the Agricultural Stabilization Conservation office that would share cost the expense. We have assurances that the Hiway Department would provide the necessary bridge (or Hiway 50 over a channel to the river for fiood water. Such a project would require signatures of a major share of our stockholders which will have to be secured in the near future. When the Reservoir is ernpt)' and we are on river run, a break in the upper part of our canal can be very costly in water lost. This is an effort to guard against these losses. During the year the Arkansas River Compact Administration gave apprO\'al to the plan of operating the Trinidad Reservoir. One million dollar s has been aIloted for work this year and it is expected that this pro- ject can be completed in two years. The Frying Pan Arkansas project has proceeded rapidly and some parts are nearing completion. This project imports 70,000 a.f. of water from Western slope but is expected to re-regulate native waters of the Arkansas at the Pueblo Reservoir. Re-regulation would mean storing and conserving some water now used for winter irrigation b.f up-stream ditches. It is not supposed to store water that would normally reach John 11artin Reservoir. Preliminary releases of Engineering studie s authorized by the Legisla- ture of water, both surface and ground, in the Arkansas Basin would indicate that some drastic changes in administration might be recommended. Charges are prevalent that available ground water is not used effectively and that surface water is not effective),)' or economically administrated, and that water is wasted by winter irrigation. Irrigators below John Martin are sometimes accused by up stream users of calling for more water than necessar.)', and winter irrigation up stream has often times nullified winter storage both in John Martin and other Reservoirs. '1 One remedy suggested would be to shift second teet priorities to an acre Coot system. !\luch of this on the theor;,r that w'1.ter could be delivered in the proper quantity when needed if controlled by a Central Local Authority. These questions will be considered and debated many times before the 1969 session of LegiSlature at which time we can be sure some effort will be made to change the pre sent system of cubic Coot per second prioritif"s. The V. S. Army Corps of Engineers have released their flood control plan for the area west of John Martin Darn. This consists mainly of straight- ening and channelizing the river so as to confine floods and deepening to Page 4