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<br />ReservQir is held in storage and lost to evaporation, thus <br /> <br />reducing the port~on of water reaching the stateline." <br />While additional evaporation may occur, this increase in <br /> <br />evaporation is offset in whole or in part by the increase in <br />water made available to downstream users from the thirty- <br />-five percent storage charge placed on .other" water stored <br /> <br />in John Martin Reservoir and the discontinuation of the <br />operation of the Great Plains reservoir system. Kansas <br />believes that additional an analysis is needed to determine <br /> <br />the quantity of evaporation caused by the resolution and to <br />determine to what extent it has been offset by the storage <br />of other water in John Martin'Reservoir and the cessation of <br /> <br />the Great Plains operation. <br /> <br />An additional effect of the 1980 Storage Resolution is <br /> <br />an increase in streamflows immediately below the reservoir <br /> <br />caused by the Amity Canal. The streamflow records of the <br /> <br />Arkansas River below John Martin Reservoir include releases <br />. <br /> <br />made for the Amity Canal from its storage of nothern water <br /> <br />in John Martin Reservoir during the winter season. At the <br /> <br />time when data were gathered for use in the mass diagram <br /> <br />.analysis, the effect of Amity releases of winte~ storage <br />water on the gage below John Martin was overlooked. If <br /> <br />these adjustments were made, releases for Amity's winter <br /> <br />water releases would be deducted from the recorded stream- <br /> <br />flow. The annual adjustment would be approximately equal to <br /> <br />Amity's winter storage, which has ranged from 9,000 acre feet <br /> <br />in ,1979 to 17,000 acre feet in 1984. Additional analysis of <br /> <br />the John Martin Reservoir storage records would be required <br /> <br />, -31- <br /> <br />-~,_,-,;L <br />