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<br />-. <br /> <br />-5- <br /> <br />~--- -- <br />---~- <br />~---~-- <br /> <br />.J <br /> <br />Since the Colorado ditches below Caddoa Reservoir diverted 118,018 acre feet, <br /> <br />(\) <br />A <br />0) <br />'" <br /> <br />required deliveries to Kansas based upon 44.1 percent of diversions by ditches <br /> <br />below Caddoa Reservoir, sho~ld have been 52,046 acre feet instead of actual <br /> <br />deliveries of 57,930 acre feet, which shows on this basis, excess delivery to <br /> <br />Kansas of 5884 acre feet. <br /> <br />All such diversions in Colorado and deliveries of water to Kansas, involve <br /> <br />no storage water in the Sense that this term is used in connection with uses of <br /> <br />stored water by canals diverting above Caddo& Reservoir. <br /> <br />Diversions of water in 1943 by the Oxford Farmers, Catlin, Rocky Ford, Las <br /> <br />Animas Consolidated, and Las Animas Town Ditches, which used no reservoir or <br /> <br />transmountain water, amounted to 27,718 acre feet more than their historic <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />average diversions, while comparable diversions by the Fort Lyon canal were <br /> <br />14,490 acre feet less than its historic diversions. <br /> <br />This comparison may not be exact, since records of historic diversions by <br /> <br />some of these ditches at times, include w&ter released from upstream reservoirs <br /> <br />and possibly sm&ll quantities of trans mountain water. It is believed however, <br /> <br />that the comparison is sufficiently accurate to reflect the increased or de- <br /> <br />creased uses of water in 1943 by these ditches, out of direct river flow. <br /> <br />The attached tabulations show 1943 diversions by the Bessemer, Colorado, <br /> <br />Highline, Otero and Holbrook canals of reservoir and transmountain water, as <br /> <br />taken from the Daily River Heports, and also the amount of river water used. <br /> <br />An eY~ct determination of the extent of increased or decreased uses of river <br /> <br />water alone, is not possible in the absence of a record showing segregations <br /> <br />of diversions cf reservoir llnd transmountain water from total diversions as shown <br /> <br />... __ ~"by_the_ recorder char_tsand the Use of " reservoir-water which..was stored after-- <br /> <br />April 1st. No such record of historic uses, has been made available. <br />