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<br />-",c.._'~..;_.. <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />- <br />l;.,) <br />(,0 <br />~ <br /> <br />-,...---- ~ ---- <br /> <br />-4- <br /> <br />Canal <br /> <br />Mean Annual Benefit <br />1914-1935 - 1000 acre-feet <br /> <br />Fort Lyon ' <br />Keesee Canal <br />Fort Bent Canal <br />Ami ty Canal <br />Lamar Canal <br />Hyde Ditch <br />Manvel Canal <br />X-Y Ditch <br />Graham Ditch <br />Buffalo Creek Ditch <br />Sisson Di tch <br /> <br />25.9 <br />2.1 <br />4.7 <br />15.6 <br />0.9 <br />3.1 <br />2.3 <br />3.3 <br />4.5 <br />2.5 <br />1.5 <br />67.4 <br /> <br /><r.tal <br /> <br />Tle benefits from Caddoa reservoir could be more equitably distributed <br /> <br />between the Fort Lyon canal and the canals below the reservoir in Color~do, <br /> <br />by transferring from such canals to the Ft. Lyon about 50 second-feet of water <br /> <br />from senior decrees. The Ft.Lyon would use water under such transferred decrees <br /> <br />so long as there was sufficient ~ter in Caddoa to replace the water now diverted <br /> <br />under those decrees. By this procedure the mean annual benefit to the Ft. Lyon <br /> <br />canal for a period, such as 1914 to 1935, Vlould be increased about 8,000 acre-feet, <br /> <br />with a correspondinJ decrease in the aggregate mean annual benefit to the other <br /> <br />canals. <br /> <br />4. Based on the type of crops now raised in the Colorado area that would <br /> <br />benefit from the reservoir, and the mean value of crops from 1923 to 1935, it is <br /> <br />concluded that the Caddoa reservoir would increase the annual gross value of crops <br /> <br />by at least ,,300,000 or between ~ and f6 per acre-foot of additional water made <br /> <br />available for such a period as 1914 to 1935. <br /> <br />Due to the character of the present \~ater supply, a 11mi ted acreaee of <br /> <br />hiGh priced row crops is raised within the area, For example, in Neld county, <br />