WSP03745

• File Number: 8111.815
• Description: Arkansas River Compact Administration
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 4/1/1990
• Author: UCACOE
• Title: Drought Contingency Plan - John Martin and Trinidad Lake - Appendix D
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Table 5-2
Decreed Water Rights
Below John Martin Reservoir
Prioritv Amount Ditch or Reservoir
Number Date (c.f.s.) diverted to
603 13 Mar 1871 9.00 Keesee
868 30 Nov 1875 15.75 Lamar
1093 31 Dec 1883 4.50 Keesee
1630 29 Jan 1885 67.50 Buffalo
1667 01 Apr 1886 27.77 Fort. Bent
1767 04 Nov 1886 72 .09 Lamar
2070 21 Feb 1887 83.50 Amity
2804 16 Apr 1887 13.64 Lamar
3169 31 May 1887 23.44 Hyde
3558 10 May 1889 32.77 Fort Bent
3627 22 Ju1 1889 69 00 X-Y & Graham
3639 11 Sep 1889 11. 70 Lamar
5415 16 Ju1 1890 184.27 Lamar
5442 12 Aug 1890 26.77 Fort Bent
5496 14 Oct 1890 54.00 Manvel
5560 24 Aug 1891 61. 00 X-Y & Graham
5670 1 Jan 1893 50.00 Fort Bent
6170 1 Apr 1893 500.00 Amity
6801 3 Sep 1893 15.00 Keesee
6918 1 Dec 1900 80.00 Fort Bent
* 55.00 Frontier
* 200.00 Amazon
* 354.00 Great Eastern
* 263.00 Farmers & Garden
* 200.00 South Side
* 33.00 Garden City

* These canals and ditches are located in Kansas. Whereas these figures
represent the allowable diversion rates of the Kansas Canal Companies represented
in the Arkansas River Basin. Kansas water rights are inherently established by
quantity, rather than solely by rate of diversion. Kansas water rights
established prior to 1945 (Kansas Water Appropriation Act) are equally vested
and not decreeded by priority date unless specifically adjudicated by the court
system.

3. Arkansas River Above John Martin Reservoir. John Martin
Reservoir and Pueblo Reservoir operations are interrelated in many cases.
Similarly, some irrigation canals upstream from John Martin Dam use water from
the reservoir, either through interconnections or exchange. The major irrigation
conveyances diverting from the Arkansas River are the Bessemer Ditch and the
Colorado, Highline, Catlin, Holbrook, Fort Lyon Storage, Fort Lyon, and Las
Animas Consolidated Canals. All of these canals and ditch systems on the
Arkansas River above John Martin Reservoir are in Colorado water districts 14
and 17.

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