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<br />---- <br /> <br />C) <br /> <br />Bon. C.L. Ireland - 8 <br /> <br />4-2S-4S <br /> <br />N <br />~ <br />.... Colorado ditches, if need be, to lIIeet required deliveries of water to Kansas. <br />~ <br />You attended, I believe, the last of these conferences at the con- <br /> <br />clllllion of wllich it waa rq 1mderartanding that all were in agre8lllent that Colo- <br /> <br />rado WILll relying upon the stipulation and that its tel'lllS and prOf'illions were in <br /> <br />effect illmlediately when IItorage of water had occurred in Caddo a Reserroir, that <br /> <br />the artored water should be oonaidered as natural strB811 now t8lllporarily regulat- <br /> <br />ad and not as Surplus watar} that the impounded water waa to be released to meet <br /> <br />the needs of ditches balow the raeerroir in both Colorado and Kansas in accord- <br /> <br />anoe with schedules to be determined by the two state Engineers, and finally <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />that when the reserroir water ft. exhausted, 11; would be the duty of the state <br /> <br /> <br />Engineer of Colorado to restrict diversione of nat=al stre8JII now by Colorado <br /> <br />ditches according to their respective priorities, if' '!:leed be, to make required <br /> <br />deliveries to KanSILll up to as IllUch q 52,000 acre feet, while the Colorado ditchea <br /> <br />bel01l' Gaddoa ResBrroir 1I'Bre diverting up 1;0 117,900 aCTe feet. <br /> <br />'filth this understanding, a tentative agreeJll8nt of reBBrroir releaeell <br /> <br />was reached nth Mr. Knapp on April S, 1945, and rele811Bs frolll Gaddoa began on <br /> <br />April 1.:ith. <br /> <br />At the mmual meeting of the Arkansas Valley Ditch Association at <br /> <br />La Junta on .April 15th, at which t1:l1e I wall requested to announce IIZI;y pro- <br /> <br />posed adm1n1strative procedure which I had in mind, several of the representa- <br /> <br />tives of Colorado ditches which divert above Caddoa Reserroir, questioned the <br /> <br />justness of the use of the water: in the reservoir in meeting the daily amounts <br /> <br />requested by some of the Colorado ditches below Caddoa Reservoir. <br />." <br />.. --;-------------- --.---------- - ------------- ---- ------------------------ <br />- The principal objection and discussion, however, aroee ewer the aseump- <br /> <br />tion by the state &gineer, of his right and obligation to restrict diversions <br />