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Annual Report For 1972 The Frying-Pan Arkansas Project is nearing completion and the dam at Pueblo will undoubtlj' be finished in the near future. Storage of water in the Pueblo Dam' will be for transmountain water except when John Martin Reservoir is filled. Provision is made for the storage of water used in winter for direct irrigation by ditches in the conservancy district down- stream, if they wish to take advantage of storage for later use. A charge will be made for this storage as this service is a part of the repayment plan Cor the Project. No estimate has been given as to the number of ditches that will store winter water in the Pueblo Reservoir. Winter now of Arkansas River at Pueblo was gauged at 90,500 aJ. The upstream ditches again this year diverted generous quantities of water for winter irrigation direct flow. District #14, 52,000 a.f. of which 10.000 a.f. to 12,000 a.f. was stored. District #17. 150,000 as. of which 22,000 a.f. was stored in the Great Plains through the Ft, Lyon. 128,000 a1, was used on direct winter irrigation, 65,000 a.t. by the Ft. Lyon Cor direct application. A push Cor the Permanent Pool in John Martin Reservoir is still on. The Fish and Game Department has acquired title to a substantial block of stock in the Catlin Canal and hope to transfer the water derived there- from to the John Martin Reservoir Cor a Permanent Pool. Stock holders in the Catlin Canal are reluctant to permit this transfer and only time will tell what can be done. At the annual meeting of the Colorado-Kansas Compact Administration ~1r. Sparks of the Colorado Water Conservation Board made a request for engineering help from Kansas to study the effect of moving this water from the Catlin Canal dowll to a Permanent Pool in John .\-tartin Reservoir. No rules and regulations have been submitted to water users regarding the operation of John Martin Reservoir with a Permanent Pool, but some plans must be adopted before a pool can be maintained in the Reservoir. The Frying-Pan Arkansas project should be completed before long. The Reservoir at Pueblo is not expected to store summer flows oi Arkansas River Water except when John Martin is filled. The water users in the Con- servation District have the opportunity to store water in the Reservoir which the,>, now use for direct irrigation in the winter months. The Reclamation Bureau would like to get early committments for water storage as this is part of the repayment plan for the project. The Amity lands are not in the conservancy district but Amit,}' has storage rights on the river water in the Great Plains Reservoir and the.y are concerned with storage of winter flows. Page 4