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<br />KEY EVENTS IN HISTORY OF ARKANSAS RIVER COMPACT DEVELOPMENT <br />Prepared by Colorado Water Conservation Board <br /> <br />"The meaning of the Arkansas River Compact cannot be fully understood apart from the rich history <br />of controversy over the river, and the early efforts to apportion its waters between the two states," <br />Special Master Arthur L Littleworth, Kansas v, Colorado, Report Vol. I, page 71, July 1994, <br /> <br />DATE EVENT RESULT <br />1861 Kansas Statehood <br />1861 Bessemer and Highline 20 cfs alld 40 cfs appropriations respectively <br />1874 Rocky Ford 112 cfs appropriation <br />1876 Colorado Statehood <br />1879 Kansas ditches 1:9-1885 ditches in Western Kansas begin diverting from river. <br />1884 Catlin and Ft, Lyon <br />1887 l Amity, Ft. Lyon, Catlin, and ~ cfs and 165 cfs appropriations respectively <br />284 cfs, 597 cfs, 97 cfs, and 322 cfs appropriations respectively <br /> Bessemer <br />1890 Colorado Canal 756 cfs appropriatioll <br />1896 Amity 265,552 AF Great Plains Reservoirs appropriation <br />1901 Kansas v. Colorado, fIrst. interstate water controversy ever brought in US Supreme Court. <br /> filed by Kansas Kansas challenges use of water on non-riparian lands in Colorado, <br /> asserts entitlement to all natural flows without any human <br /> interference. Colorado asserts appropriator's right to divert entire <br /> flow of river. <br />1902 Kansas v. Colorado, US Supreme Court determines it has jurisdiction over inter-state <br /> 185US, 125 water controversies. <br />1907 Kansas v. Colorado, US Supreme Court announces doctrine of "equitable apportionment" <br /> 206 U,S, 46 of benefits, but fmds that Colorado's use of river had not yet caused <br /> significant detriment to Kansas and declines to apportion river flows. <br />1910 U,S, IrriQatinQ Co, v, Graham Kansas ditch company sues Colorado ditches in U,S, District Court <br /> Ditch Co, et aL, for adjudication of relative priorities irrespective of Stateline. Case <br /> settled in 1916 with Colorado ditches recognizing 1910 priorities for <br /> Kallsas ditches and paying some damages to those ditches, <br />1916 Finnev County Water Users Finney County Water Users Association not satisfied with 1916 <br /> Assoc, v, Graham Ditch Co, et al settlement and files its own case, similar to 1910 case, in U,S, District <br /> Court, <br />1921- first effort by States to negotiate States authorize negotiations and appoint commissioners (Colorado- <br />1923 a Compact Delph Carpenter, Kansas-George Knapp) in attempt to negotiate an <br /> allocation that would be binding on all water users in both states, at <br /> least partially as response to Finney County case. <br />1921 Arkansas River flooding Extensive damage from Pueblo to Garden City, <br /> <br />1643 <br />t <br /> <br />C \SRMII.LER\ARCAIGENERAL\OOCUMEt-rT\COMHSTRY TAB <br />MIlY 14. 19'18 <br />