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REPUBLICAN RIVER COMPACT <br />(§37-67-101, et. seq., C.R.S.) <br />Updated December 31, 1942 <br />Signatory States: Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska <br />Colorado Commissioner: State Engineer <br />Major Purposes: <br />1. Provide for most efficient use of water for multiple purposes (Art. I) <br />2. Remove all present and future controversy (Art. I) <br />3. Promote interstate comity (Art. I) <br />4. Recognize that the most efficient utilization of waters in the basin is for beneficial <br />consumptive use (Art. I) <br />5. Promote joint action between the U.S. and the states in the efficient use of water and <br />in the control of floods (Art. I) <br />Important Provisions: <br />1. Allocation of waters are based on a computation of average, annual virgin water <br />supply in the respective streams. (Art. III) <br />2. Colorado is allocated the beneficial use of the following waters on an annual basis: <br />North Fork of the Republican 10,000 acre-feet <br />Arikaree River 15,400 acre-feet <br />South Fork of the Republican 25,400 acre-feet <br />Beaver Creek 3,300 acre-feet <br />Total 54,100 acre-feet <br />plus the entire supply of Frenchman Creek and Red Willow Creek in Colorado. (Art. <br />IV) <br />3. Kansas is allocated on an annual basis 190,300 acre-feet of beneficial consumptive <br />use and Nebraska 234,500 acre-feet. (Art. IV) <br />4. No provision is made for any debit or credit system, but provisions are made for <br />readjustment of historical, annual virgin flows should they vary more than 10% from <br />those set forth in the Compact. Reallocations can be made on these readjusted flows. <br />(Art. III) <br />