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Show __g__ [March 18, 1914, Cross-Examination by N. E. Corthell, Attorney for Wyoming, pp. 3732-33] Q. In speaking of the runoff of the Poudre river, I understand you to say that you estimate the average annual runoff for the ten years 1904 to 1913 at 367,000 acre feet? A. Yes sir, that is correct. Q. You also estimated the amount of water annually discharged by the Poudre into the South Platte during the same period of ten years at 120,000 acre feet? A. Yes sir, that is correct. I said I estimated that 10,000 acre feet of this came into the Platte river from seepage water from the Poudre Valley ditches, and 110,-000 discharged from the Poudre itself into the Platte, the 10,000 other acre feet that came in in the form of seepage into the Platte river, that is from Poudre ditches. Q. So that of the 367,000 acre feet annually supplied to the Poudre river, 120,000 gets back into the stream? A. Yes sir, that is correct, excepting this, a large part of the 110,000 feet which flows from the Poudre into the Platte is water which has never been diverted, water in the form of floods, water that is sent down for the benefit of other ditches, passing from the Poudre into the Platte. All of the 110,000 was not seepage. Q. Then out of the 367,000 feet available for use in that stream, 120,000 gets back to the stream in some form? A. Yes sir. * Q. Leaving a net use of how much? A. About 247,000 acre feet. |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |