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--",....::-y - o ,_.n) ..... <..:l Co,) CJI -3- 3UMMARY 1. It is concluded that for the period from 1914 to 1936 inclusive, the Caddo a reservoir would have made available to the states of Colorado and Kansas an averase annual amount of 112,000 acre-feet of flood water not otherwise useable durin~ that period, and that in accordance with the tentative a~reeuent existing bet'leen Colorado and Kansas this 112,000 acre-feet v:ould be divided equally between the two states. In addition to the 112,000 acre-feet of flood water made useable by Caddoa, it is concluded an average annual saving of about 11,300 acre-feet of Kicking Bird water would have been effected, which would have been available for benefic~al use in Colorado. On the basis of the assumed operation of the reservoir, a total of 1,001,000 acre-feet V!ould have spilled from the reservoir during the period under consideration, 1914 to 1936. Nominal short~es would have occurad in some years prior to 1930 and more severe shorta~es since 1930. 2. It is the writer's conclusion that from the period 1895 to 1936 the most severe period with respect to water supply for the operation of the Caddoa reservoir would have been the period 1932 throurh 1935, and that the next most severe period would have been November, 1916, throur,h May, 1921, inclusive. It is the writer's conclusion that the reservoir could have been operated from 1895 to 1913 inclusive, the be,:.innin,", of the period covered by the present study, without material shorta,es, on the basis of the assumed r~uirements in the two states. 3. It is concluded that for the period 1914 to 1936, inclusive, the followin" canals would have received from Caddoa reservoir the mean annual amounts of water indicated in the followin~ table: