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<br />-.. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />..1, <br />. -- :--- <br /> <br />c <br />,,~) <br />to <br />W <br />t:.O <br />~I <br /> <br />- ~...~,. <br />'. ~ <br />f/,; .....' <br />~..-~ ;. -^ <br />AGREE:,liONT-COV.;;m-NG-T:JE-DIV-I SION-Oli'-'J'HE- '1-;~"'-~1l <br />\,;t.TERS OF T,IE ARXPJ!SAS r.IV.t:F. C'.':~ <br />MlD OPi.:I-:ATIJN OF CADroP. f~OIR '~'"'>~.''' <br />DUEDG TEE PEF.I::JD ?'. 4;- <br />APF.IL 1 to OCTOBER 1, 1940, \6' ~. <br />oC'AC"-D 0" ,oRI' 8 l"~~ ..' /"'\' <br />.n.::... ut. 1\.t'_ I...... , "..... ' ..,. <br />- - - " -..-f. <br />--:::,....;. . <br />"::.' ,:-:-(.., <br />\ .<:' 'i' "'Il: <br />~. ,. ". <br />"" -". ~. <br />~.. <br />.. . <br />., <br /> <br />1. <br /> <br />Factucl Situation: <br /> <br />, , (a) Caddoa Dam has been constructed to spill~ay elevation <br />I '.:...:!n C'".. .'.. ,: ~""I') <br />... /VI... ......,"1.i. .'l~'fVlv..J.. .. . _ . <br />"5,840 feet above sea-level, perm.tt~ng Cad\ioa he5ervo~r to be oper~ted <br />- <br /> <br />to an initial capacity of about 270,000 acre-feet. <br /> <br />(b) Authority Vias granted March W, 194.5 by the ";ar Depart- <br /> <br />ment, Corps of &~gineers, to the States of Colorado and KansAs to utilize <br /> <br />about 100,000 acre-feet.of the constructed reservoir capacity, during the <br /> <br />present food emergency peri.~d of f,'orld ";,'ar II, for the purposes of stre"m <br /> <br />flow regulati~n m1d water conservation for the benefit of irrigated abri- <br /> <br />culture. in the trro States, upon t~e understandinb that the remaining 170,000 <br /> <br />acre-feet of the constructed reservoir capacity will be reserved for the <br /> <br />pu:poses of flood control ~nd the prevention or reduction of da~ages fro~ <br /> <br />floods to lands 2nd property elong the channel of the trkans~s ?~ver do~~- <br /> <br />stre&ffi ~rom Caddoa. <br /> <br />(c) Beginning January 15, 194~, the gros~ storage of r.at~r and <br /> <br />acc~ulated silt in Caddo a Reservoir as of April 5, 1943 (elevation 3798.75) <br /> <br />amounted to 47,381 acre-feet. P~owing 1,179 acr~-feet of unavailable <br /> <br />capacity below the outlets of the reservoir, and 11,Z75 acre-feet for silta- <br /> <br />tion, the stored w&ter available for relea~e froJ!l the reservoir appro::i:nates <br /> <br />35,000 acre feet. <br />