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Show -2- [December 15, 1913, Direct Examination by Fred Farrar, Attorney General of Colorado, pp. 1385-86] Q. You have mentioned four streams flowing to the east: The South Platte, the Republican river, the Arick-aree and the Arkansas. Which of those are streams of any considerable importance? A. The Republican and the Arickaree head on the Great Plains and are quite small. The South Platte and the Arkansas both head in the Continental Divide and are streams of considerable magnitude. Q. Now with reference to these streams, which run to the east, is there any accretion to the streams or to the tributaries which join these streams aside from seepage and return water from irrigation? A. There is some accretion. The Plains region, however, does not furnish a very great run-off, and that portion of the Great Plains tributary to these streams, probably does not discharge much over 1/10 of a foot of water in depth over the water sheds into the streams; that is to say from a section of land of 640 acres, probably 64 acre feet would represent as much as is discharged on the average into these streams. Q. Take as an illustration the South Platte and the Arkansas under natural, normal conditions, that is eliminating the question of irrigation, would these streams increase or decrease as they pass across the plains on the eastern side of Colorado after they leave the mountains? A. They would decrease except at such times when very heavy rains discharge large amounts of water into the streams, when we would have what we call a flood or a cloud burst. |
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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. |