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<br />starting approximately in 1949. It was first thought that <br />this break was due to the changes in the regimen of the <br />river caused by the ratification of the Compact in 1949. <br />The most significant change brought about by the Compact was <br />the operation and storage of water in the conservation pool <br />of John Martin Reservoir. Actual operation of the <br />conservation pool, however, started in 1943, six years prior <br />to ~he Compact ratification, and was made in accordance with <br />various interim agreements between the two states. There- <br />fore, the changes in slope of the mass diagrams in 1949 are <br />lik~ly not completely attributable to the operation of the <br />conservation pool. <br />5. Effects of the 1980 Storage Resolution <br />Storage operations of John Martin Reservoir were <br />modified by the 1980 Storage Resolution adqpted by the <br />Compact Administration on April 24, 1980. The resolution <br />provides for: 1) a storage account system which, among <br />other things, allows ditches in Colorado District 67 and <br />. Kansas to carryover water from year to year in individual <br />accounts; 2) storage of other water in John Martin Reservoir <br />from the Amity's Great Plains Reservoir system, the Fort <br />Lyon Canal Company, and the Las Animas Consolidated Canal <br />Company; and 3) thirty-five percent of the "other" water <br />stored in John Martin Reservoir by those entities listed <br />above is made available for water users below John Martin <br />Reservoir. <br />Colorado contends that as a result of the 1980 Storage <br />Resolution, ."a greater amount of inflow to John Martin <br />-30- <br />