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\. 1131 . WHERE CAN THIS WATER BE USED? Generally it is easier to get the courts to let water be utilized DOW~STREAM rather UPSTREAM, because fewer users are left to file objections. If water is available, trades sometimes can be made to take it upstream. Pipelines can carry water from it's rOINT OF DIVERSION, generally, without changing it's point of diversion. WHAT SYSTEM IS COLORADO WATER DIRECTED UNDER? The Priority System. That is to say that when a downstream user with senior priority for an amount of water calls for this water, an upstream user with junior priority is shut down. OF WHAT SIGNIFICANCE IS THE AMITY SYSTEM? It involves the largest PRIVATELY held storage in Colorado as well as the largest PUBLICLY held storage (John Martin Reservoir) in the state of Colorado. John Martin has a capacity of 655,000 acre feet, of which 350,000 acre feet is the conservation pool with the balance being flood storage. Amity's 50,000 a.ft. of storage is ABOVE the conservation pool. The conservation pool belongs 60% to Colorado and 40% to Kansas. LOCATION? AMITY HEADGATE is located near Prowers, Colorado, and is ten miles below .JOhn Martin Dam. This system extends east into Kansas, ending at . CHEYENNE CREEK, just inside the Kansas Border. The reservoir storage . headgate (KICKING BIRD) is located west of La Junta and delivers into the AMITY CANAL at BIG SANDY CREEK. This lends some flexibility of delivery of water for a potential buyer, as it could be delivered in the Amity system just INSIDE KANSAS without any application for export of water or change of point of diversion. It could be delivered by pipeline from the KICKING BIRD into LAKE MEREDITH (distance 12 miles) where COLORADO SPRINGS takes the COLORADO CANAL and CO~SOLIDATED DITCH water into the Colorado Springs System, thereby making it available for trade or possible delivery anywhere on the Front Range. John, I hope this helps to make the offering of the Amity water a little more understandable. It is very complex but that should not take away from it being an outstanding opportunity for someone to own a very rare asset that will appreciate substantially in the future. Give me a call if you have any more questions. Yors truly, lJ-:ud- W.R. Davis .