WSP07530

• File Number: 8143.600.30A
• Description: John Martin Reservoir - Other Studies
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 1/1/1950
• Title: Administration of Caddoa Reservoir - 1950 -- Part 2 of 4
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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with their decreed priorities, regardless of conditions_of_storage-in-Caddoa-------
HRe-eervoir, or need-for water ipKansas.

5. Contentions that Kansas could not just1~, claim any part of tile stored
water since it was i!llpounded during eo period when ample water supplies "'ere
.flowi~g into Kansas to meet the needs of its water users.

Other questions more or less Interest~in character were:

1. Timp-s, rates and points of deliveries of water, for use in Kansas.

2. Classificetion of the water held in storage in Caddo~ Reservoir.

3. The areas in Colorado and hence the ditches to ",hich the Stipulntion is
applicahle.

4. The date upon ..,,\u.ch Caddoa ReseI"IToir would have to be emptied, ~s re-
quired by Federal authorities.

5. Responsibility for the administration of water. stored in Caddos Reservoir.

S. Articles of 8.greement between the two State Engineers, covering adminis-
trative procedure, etc.

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Prior to the initiation of administration of the Stipul~.tion, the State
Engineer of Coloredo conferred with representatives of the Attonley General's
office and Counsel for the Arkansas "\1alle~' Ditch Association first on February
Srd, 'lind subsequently at other times. Other conferences between the officials
of Colorado and of Kansas were held to consider~uestions relating to inter-
pretations of the provisions of the stipulFtion and administrECtion. The
last conference -was held on August 19th between the Attorneys Geheral of
Colorado and Kansas, the two State Engineers, Counsel for the Arkansas Valley
Ditch Association and other ditches, and representatives of the Colorado ~ater
Conservation Board. At the several meetings of the Colorado representative~,
it ~s the consensus of opinion that the Stipul~tion posed many original and
involved questions of administration not theretofore presented, .hich called
for the exercise of tolerance and patience on the part of the water users
pending the forthco~~g decision of the Supreme Court of the United St~tes
which would determine future adlninistrative procedure. It .was also the con-
sensus of opinion at the early conferences, th"t due to the involved character
of conflicting interests, it would be neceasary thE.t the StFte Engineer of
Colorado exercise his discretion in meeting many problems as they arose from
time to time. Mr. Knapp 'IIliS also of tile opinion that no hard and fast rules
could be adopted during the early stages of adJ:1i1listration, '3.Ild tMt the pro-
cedure of the administrative officials must necessarily be guided ~ the re-
quirements, from ti'1le to tilOe, of the water users in botil states end the
availability of water supplies to meet the same within the requirement!> of the
Stipulation.