WSP08433

• File Number: 8111.600
• Description: ARCA Annual Reports
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 12/11/1979
• Author: ARCA
• Title: Thirty-First Annual Report Arkansas River Compact Administration for the Year 1979
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

Water surface at top of conservation pool, acres. 11,655
Water surface at top of flood control pool, acres, 17,630
Drainage area, square miles, ' 18.915
A '..-mile of the historic Santa Fe Trail north of the reservoir has
been enclosed by a fence. An appropriate sign perpetuates this bit of
Americana for posterity.

7. Cooperative Studies and Activities:
(a) Article VIII G (1) of Arkansas River Compact requires the
Administration to cooperate with the Chief Official of each of
the states of Colorado and Kansas charged with the ad.
ministration of water rights in their respective States. and with
the Federal agencies in systematically determining and
correlating the facts pertaining to the flow and diversion of the
water of the Arkansas River and to the operation and siltation of
John Martin Reservoir and other related structure, Article VIIf
G (2) requests the Director of the United States Geological
Survey, the Commissioner of the Uniled States Bureau of
Reclamation, and the Chief of the Engineers, United States
Army, to cooperate and collaborate with the Administration and
with appropriate State officials in such determinations and
correlations of stream now and related data. Under the By-
Laws of the Administration, these cooperative studies and ac-
tivities are assigned to the Engineering Committee of the
Administration.
(bl During the year covered by this report the Administration has
received excellent cooperation from all agencies referred to in
the foregoing provisions of the Compact. The United States
Geological Survey has continued the operation of the compact
gaging stations and the analysis and compilaton of the
hydrologic data presented in this report and used in the ad-
ministration of the Compact. The Corps of Engineers continued
to operate the conservation pool of John Martin Reservoir in
accordance with the terms of the Compact and the orders of the
Administration.

8. Water Supply, Reservoir Operation, and Hydrologic Data:
The winter storage began at t2:00 p.m. October 31. 1978 with the
reservoir being empty since July 15, 1978, A Colorado demand for river
flow of 7 cfs was released November 1, 1978 and maintained until
January 12, 1979. A river flow release was made April 12, 1979 of 20 cfs
on Colorado demand and canceled April 13, 1979 as weather conditions
below John Martin and inflow justified closing the gales for swomer
storage.
Winter Compact storage ended at 2400 hours April 8, 1979 with 7.109
acre feet accwnulated and Amity's winter water storage of 8.675 for a
tOlal of 15,784 acre.feet in John Martin. Pursuant to the 1979 Colorado.
Kansas storage resolution adopted by the Administration in March.
1979 and the distribution agreement of ditches in Water District No. fJI.
transfer of this water into various accounts began April 8, 1979 and
ended April 12, 1979.
Under the resolution, water collected in conservation storage was
released into accounts at a rate of 1,000 cfs and apportioned 60% for

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