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<br />Q0162~ <br /> <br />a. he recommends allocation of "average annual dependable and fairly continuous <br />water supply and flow" (as measured at Canon City and mouth of Purgatorie) <br />1) Kansas 185,000 AF (150,000 in irrigation season) <br />2) Colorado 925.000 AF <br />3) Total: 1,100,000 AF (1/6 Kansas, 516 Colorado) <br />4) Shortages shared in same proportion. <br />b. Colorado objects, and appeals to Supreme Court <br /> <br />4. Court holds <br />a. Kansas users are enjoined from litigating priorities against Colorado in federal <br />district court. <br />b. river should !1Q1. be allocated on basis of cfs or AF. Kansas still hasn't not <br />burden justifying a displacement of existing Colorado uses such as Master <br />proposed. <br />c. looks at conflicting engineering evaluations of stateline flows and development <br />in both states - urges state to resolve via compact as "quasi- sovereigns". <br />o "necessitate expert administration rather than judicial imposition of a hard <br />and fast rule". <br />o "such controversies may appropriately be composed by negotiations and <br />agreement". <br />o "mutual accommodation and agreement should, if possible, be the medium <br />of settlement, instead of invocation of our adjudicatory power". <br /> <br />C. John Martin (Caddoa) Reservoir Negotiations <br /> <br />1. Army Corps proposes reservoir on lower Arkansas in Colorado for flood control <br />and conservation. <br /> <br />2. Federal approval and funding only if states can agree on division of water. <br /> <br />3. 1933 Stipulation to support project, maintain status quo <br />a. Assume supply of 237,000 AF <br />b. Kansas will get 77,000 AF Iyr. @ stateline (52,000 in summer), <br />Colorado 160,000 <br />c. becomes effective when storage water available in JMR. <br /> <br />4. Project authorized June 22, 1936, 100% federal funding. <br /> <br />5. Construction begins 1936, delayed due to World War II. <br /> <br />6. 1st storage and use (35,000 AF) in 1943, divided by agreement. <br />a. triggered 1933 stipulation <br />b. monthly schedule of state line flows based on Colorado return flow and storage <br />release. <br /> <br />6 <br />