WSP09032

• File Number: 8407
• Description: Platte River Basin - River Basin General Publications
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 2/27/1991
• Author: BOR
• Title: Annual Operating Plans - North Platte Project Water Years 1990-1991
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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PROJECT PLANNING AND CONTROL

The Project is operated for municipal and industrial water supply,
irrigation, hydroelectric power production, flood control, recreation, fish
and wildlife preservation, and other purposes. The Project is operated
under the purposes for which it was authorized and constructed.

The integrated operation of the Project is planned and coordinated by the
Bureau of Reclamation, Water and Power Control Division, Eastern Colorado
Projects Office in Loveland, Colorado: This office collects and analyzes
information daily and makes the decisions necessary for successful operation
of the Project. This continuous water management function involves
coordination between the Upper Colorado and Great Plains Regions of
Reel amation, North Pl atte and Bighorn Basin Projects of Reclamation, the
Department of Energy, and many other local, state, and Federal agencies.

Experience has proven that proper util ization of the available water
resource in a multi-purpose Project such as this can be achieved only
through careful budgeting of the anticipated water supply. The technical
end product of this budgeting process is an Annual Operating Plan (AOP).

The Project is operated on a water year basis (October I through
September 30). The AOP is prepared in October or November of each year,
following the plan's review and necessary public meetings.

AOPs are prepared for reasonable maximum and reasonable minim~m conditions
of water supply and requi rements as well as for the most probable runoff
conditions. The Project is operated to optimize the most probable water
supply without jeopardizing operational position should either reasonable
maximum or reasonable minimum water supply conditions occur. When
necessary, the plan is reviewed and revised during the year as new
information or changing conditions occur.

Flexibil ity is a keynote of the plan. Computer programs are used by
Reclamation to develop plans of operation and water supply forecasts.