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District 9. — District 9 coniprisos the drainage area of Bear Creek 

 and its tributaries. The decree governin«: riijlits in this district was 

 rendered in 1883. Each ditch was decreed the amount of water the 

 referee found to be its full carrying cajiacity. These findings of the 

 referee were based on measiirenients made by a civil en<'-ineer em- 

 ploj^ed for that purpose, so that there is i)robabl\- not the same excess 

 in rights decreed oyer actual capacities that there is in other districts. 

 The ditches on Bear Creek can be supplied from no other source, but 

 their rights are subject to prior rights on the main ri\cr. These 

 ditches are occasionally closed down to supply prior rights l)elow. 



The following table gives the decreed rights in district J) and the 

 prior rights in the lower districts : 



Rights to u-ater in district 9 iiitd i)rior rinhts in loivcr districts. 



The average flow of Bear Creek during the late summer, when there 

 is likely to be a shortage of water on the main river, is considerably 

 less than 100 cubic feet per second, and rights to this quantity in dis- 

 trict 1) are prior to any rights on the main river below. Of the 

 eighteen ditches in the district three received some water in each 

 month of the season, and almost all of them received what was needed 

 b}^ the land under them during May, June, July, and August. The 

 average daily diversion by all the ditches for the season of 1903 is 

 reported as 94 cubic feet per second. 



Eleven reservoirs in district 9 have decreed rights. These rights 

 are based on the cajjacities of the inlet ditches, the sum of the rights 

 being 212.98 cubic feet per second. This water can be diverted only 

 outside of the irrigation season or when there is more water than is 

 needed for direct irrigation. There are several other reservoirs, the 

 rights of which have not been defined. 



District 7. — District 7 includes the drainage area of Clear Creek 

 and its tributaries. Clear Creek discharges into the South Platte at 

 the boundary line between districts 8 and 2, and the water of Clear 



