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<br />~. <br /> <br />9. <br /> <br />(:::l <br /> <br />c::) <br /> <br />N <br />A <br />W <br />~ <br /> <br />assurance that their diversions would be limited to their designated <br /> <br />needs. <br /> <br />Itr. Knapp advised us the Kansas ditches would need 250 second <br /> <br />feet, which would include all deliveries across the State line from all <br /> <br />sources. <br /> <br />Immediately follo,ing this meetir~ with ,rr. Knapp on April 7th <br /> <br />and 8th, Colonel Rosenberg was notified of the aforementioned agreement, <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />effective as of April 15th, and he was requested to authorize the release <br /> <br />of the required amount of water from storage. <br /> <br />Releases from storage were begun at 5:50 <br /> <br />P.M. =-l~h, <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />e.nd have continued in varying amounts from day to day as required, until <br /> <br />the morning of July 50th, when the reservoir was reported as being empty. <br /> <br />~ request, the State Engineer attended the Annual meeting of <br /> <br />the Pxkansas Vall~ Ditch Association et La Junta on April 15th, to dis- <br /> <br />cuss proble~s of water administration and related matters, including the <br /> <br />stipulation bet"een Colorado and Kansas. <br /> <br />.The question aroEe"2i to. hOh the river rr~s to be administered <br /> <br />when the reseIVoir v;-es empty. I advised tha.t it was my understanding that <br /> <br />in signing the Stipulation with Kansas, Colorado had assumed obligations <br /> <br />not theretofore recognized, which required Colorado to deliver watercto <br /> <br />Kansas within certain limits, and if these deliveries could not be made <br /> <br />out of water stored in Caddoa reseIVoir, then they would have to be made <br /> <br />out of naturel stream flo..., and that to accomplish this it ""ould be <br /> <br />-. <br /> <br />necessary to close headgates along the Arkansas river in reverse order <br /> <br />of priorities of the Colorado ditches, both above snd below the reservoir, <br />