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<br />~ '" <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />o <br />" <br />1'\:- <br />c..1" <br /> <br />17 <br /> <br />winter flows through a feeder canal. <br /> <br />The Bureau of <br /> <br />Reclamation has suggested five conditions of operation, <br /> <br /> <br />previously listed in this memorandum. The first of these <br /> <br /> <br />is the transfer of the full storage right for Model <br /> <br /> <br />Reservoir upstream to the Trinidad reservoir site. The <br /> <br /> <br />storage of water under this right, together with the <br /> <br />storage of winter flows now used for irrigation, and of <br /> <br />flood flows which would otherwise spill from John Martin <br /> <br />reservoir would increase the present effective average <br /> <br />water supply of 63 percent to 84 percent, according to <br />the operation study under the first three conditions. In <br />the study, summer flood flows are passed through the <br /> <br />reservoir as rapidly as possible! in preventing damage <br /> <br /> <br />except for .such storage as might accrue to the Hodel <br /> <br />reservoir storage right, together with water which would <br /> <br />otherwise spill at .John Martin reservoir. <br /> <br />The report states that the rehabilitation of the Model <br /> <br />right can be consummated under the Arkansas River Compact <br /> <br /> <br />and that operation of the pLoject under the first three <br /> <br /> <br />conditions will not materially deplete the inflow into <br /> <br />John Martin Reservoir. <br /> <br />The lower end of the proj ect area is abollt 35 miles <br /> <br />downstream from Trinidad. From this point the Purgatoire <br />