WSP06229

• File Number: 8135.100
• Description: Ditch Companies - Amity Mutual Irrigation Company
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 1/1/1962
• Author: Amity Mutual
• Title: Annual Report - 1961
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

1594ANNUAL REPORT

FOR 1;61
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:repair operation which hag been ('on~id2rr:1 fC-'T ~e\'enll yearS was then
.-;(art~j and has 'beell 11;1I101ed 10 a gl'e~t e:.t..~nt ,11\" our maintenance
an.J operation pet.:.;onnel in the off ~~a~o:l. \\'2 shoul-d all he proud of
lhi~ hW/lTD\,e)11ent iu the AIlli!\" hnilding.
A sllidy is being mal!::- in t112 Arli:l1l5US \'tt1l2Y uf the applica-

lioll and USe of irrigation WalfT', Colo]';H1G State University and the
Sonth Eastern Colota-do Water CQn",'~r\'atinl1 .ji2trlCt ('oopE'rating. It ig
hOj12-d that this stu.:ly will he thorough awl :lL:r:UHlte enough to dispell
some of t'ne charges that water T'21e.'ls:d frO,ll stoTnge IS BOllletlllles
waste-(l. The duty of water needs study Wlsl:-eam as W?1l as .h~IO\..' John
:.brlin Res2n'oir, esperially the E'Xc~.;.",jn~ US8 of off-setl.sOIl Or winter
irrigalicn.

In 1~3G the Amity ::\Iutufll Irri,5"ation ComJlany was org:Ul-
ize.d ac('or-ding 10 the def'Tee of a Fe,deral Ju-::lf:"e in the United States
n~strit'.t Conrt at D~ll\"er and lli\s Conrt r?tained jlITi;::{\ictiOll nn1i1 onr
1~13S annual meetin;;. :\1an)" ('hang:,> h~ve tal,en pl<1t3 ill the 26 years
that OUI' compau\" has been Illutuali,':d. In-dh':-dual~, now own mo-:;;t of
the share~ where'3s large bJor.k.", or :-:;toc:k \'.'2)"e in COnlj1<lny ownersl1ip
at ,that lime.

Qur annual me~~tlngs 11a'-e ahnl)'s he<:'1l ,,'-ell attende.ll by
sh:Heholder~ but sil1(',e the rersonnet i~ cOIls:,tanUy changing and since
last year mll~h of O:lr wat::!r supply C;1,:lle .:I:r:-ct from the river, we
thought it might be well to D.g.lin list nUT 'priorilie::. Rights on which
the Amity d'Cpends for t'h~:r water ~:upply, r11~o P:e arrang'ell1ent for
division of water among Color;:oo .rHt'"h2,; w11en 'Watel' is D.vailaule
from sto)"a~E' in John :\Inrtin neservoir.

The first 'llriority fllr A'nity water \Va;; allowed:
for 2S;::.5 (:u. ft. as of Februnry 21"t. 1887: the 8er,~
on.(\ for SO() eu. ft. as of April ht IS!);;. Storag€
rl.l;hts of the Great. Plains aT~ as of Augus\ 11>t,
1896, diverted from the .-\rkans.1~ Rh'er at La
Junta ann delivered to t1\<;! Gr".1t Plains nesel'\'oil'S
through the Fort Lyon, the Kiekingbird, S3t!lnt~
Hn-d Lone Wolf Canals.

Caddon. Dam was nuthorize<l by Congre.<,;s in 193!J, Hnd ~(Jm~
pletc-d '''hen ga-tes were iIl~talled in 1948. The Arkan'sas River C01\1-
[Iaet beeame .effective ).]a)" :n::;t, 1[1-19, when the ad granUng congres-
sional consent thereto was aj)prO\'€'{j, by the preSIdent of the' United
States, .

Rules and regulations goveTning- release.',: of store-d wat-er
from John ,Martin Re!ienoir became effectiVe ANi] 15th, 1950, .

Stored water in Jol1n I\lartin ,Reservoir is relea.sed It)l' us~
of Colorado Ditches in 3ecol'dance with ~lgreemellts among the several
ditcl1es based on -the Historical di\'el'siolls of water .hefore Cad(loa.
Dam w9.s C'onstructe{).

When John Martin Reservoir has been de('lnred empty,
Colorado administers (let.reed rights of water users ill Waler District
>>7 as agaill::it each othel' an.n ail against a1\ rights nQ.w or hereafter de-
cree.{] to water users .oherting upstream frOIll John IJI,]artin Dam art

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