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Show 770 INTERSTATE ADJUDICATIONS (a) From diverting or permitting the diversion of water from the North Platte River above the Guernsey Reservoir and from the tributaries entering the North Platte River above the Path- finder Dam for the irrigation of more than a total of 168,000 acres of land in Wyoming during any one irrigation season. (b) From storing or permitting the storage of more than a total amount of 18,000 acre feet of water for irrigation purposes from the North Platte River and its tributaries above the Pathfinder Reservoir between October 1 of any year and September 30 of the following year. III. The State of Wyoming, its officers, attorneys, agents and em- ployees, be and they are hereby severally enjoined from storing or per- mitting the storage of water in Pathfinder, Guernsey, Seminoe and Alcova Reservoirs otherwise than in accordance with the relative stor- age rights, as among themselves, of such reservoirs, which are hereby defined and fixed as follows: First, Pathfinder Reservoir; Second, Guernsey Reservoir; Third, Seminoe Reservoir; and Fourth, Alcova Reservoir; Provided, however, that water may be impounded in or released from Seminoe Reservoir, contrary to the foregoing rule of priority opera- fion for use in the generation of electric power when and only when such storage or release will not materially interfere with the admin- istration of water for irrigation purposes according to the priority decreed for the French Canal and the State Line Canals. IV. The State of Wyoming, its officers, attorneys, agents and em- ployees be and they are hereby severally enjoined from storing or per- mitting the storage of water in Pathfinder, Guernsey, Seminoe or Alcova Reservoirs, and from the diversion of natural flow water through the Casper Canal for the Kendrick Project between and in- cluding May 1 and September 30 of each year otherwise than in ac- cordance with the rule of priority in relation to the appropriations of the Nebraska lands supplied by the French Canal and by the State Line Canals, which said Nebraska appropriations are hereby adjudged to be senior to said four reservoirs and said Casper Canal, and which said Nebraska appropriations are hereby identified and defined, and their diversion limitations in second feet and seasonal limitations in acre feet fixed as follows: Limitation in Seasonal Lands Canal Second Feet Limitation in Acre Feet Tract of 1,025 acres_______..............._..... French___.......________..... 15 2,227 Mitchell Irrigation District.-..........______..... Mitchell_____________......... 195 35,000 Gering Irrigation District.........______________ Gering__________.............. 193 36,000 Farmers Irrigation District,-.............________ Tri-State....................... 748 183,050 Ramshorn Irrigation District____________________ Ramshorn____......__________ 14 3,000 V. The natural flow in the Guernsey Dam to Tri-State Dam sec- tion between and including May 1 and September 30 of each year, including the contribution of Spring Creek, be and the same hereby is apportioned between Wyoming and Nebraska on the basis of twenty- |