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<br />tions of streamflO\.\. and related data.. Under the By-Laws of <br />the. Administration, these cooperative studies .md activities arc <br />a~signecl to the Engineering Committee of the Administration. <br /> <br />(~) Durin).! the YC;lr covered by this report. the Administration has <br />received excdlcnt cooperation from all ;lgencics referred to in <br />the foregoing provIsions of thc C(lmpact.~ The Corps of Engi- <br />neers continued to nrer;lte John Mdrtin Reservoir in accordance <br />with the terms of thl' Compact ilnd the <lrdcrs of the Adminis- <br />tration. In :tdditiul1, tho-' Corp:=; furnished members of the Au- <br />ministr:ltion witn copit:s of thi? puhlisned report on sediment:l- <br />tion of John M:lrtin ReserVOIr. The United St:ttes Geological <br />Survey has c(lntimled the operation of the Compact gaging sta- <br />tIons ;1nJ the analyses and compilation ('If hydrologic data pre- <br />sented in this report and used in the ddministration of the <br />Compact. <br /> <br />7. J11ntn S"JI/Jl", U~,~f?,.tJoir (}J)(~mtjo1l\' "nd H)'rhologh: Data <br /> <br />..'\t thl' k'g'11l1l1Ilg l,t Ill": C(lIll11,!(t yed!' tll': rt's~rvLlir Wd:;, empty illlJ <br />it rO-'m:,illcd l'mpcy until 11 A.M. on December 1st. :l.S during Novem- <br />hcr. G,k,rdllu JCl11dllJ(tl the. river /lnw up tll loa d~ :I~ prl1vidcd under <br />Section A of Article V of tne Arbnsas River Compact. <br /> <br />The river flow hclow John Mllrtin Dam dunng November averaged <br />57 ds and Colorado diverted 5,966 :1cre feet and 3.610 :lcrc feet crnssed <br />the st:ltr}ine into Kan~;ls. <br /> <br />At the end (If the winter stl)ragc period on March 31st, 1961 the <br />reservoir font.lincJ 1?168 :tCTe fect, \\'nich WllS 25,335 acre fect less <br />than tne ;lmount on hand on M:tn.:h 31 st. 1960. On April 3rd, Kansas <br />c,llled for 200 ds :It which time the reservoir contained 22,556 :l.cre <br />feet. Colur,ldo c;dlcd for 350 cfs at 9 P.M. on April 11th. Both Colo- <br />r:ldo and K:ll1sas increased theIr demands as marc ditches st:1rted irrigat- <br />ing ;lnd :It 7 :30 P.M. nn April 28th the reservoir was empty again, <br /> <br />OutsJdc of the above. storage the reservoir only contained water on <br />24 days in June and 4 days in August. This showed tnere were vcry <br />few nash floods or prolonged periexls of nigh water which the reservoir <br />wa5 built to eon5tnin. During June, :l. flood occurred mostly below the <br />dam and while Colorado was rlble to divert as much water as passed the <br />dam, the statcline now eluring the same time amounted to 21,200 Ac. Ft. <br />()r 16070 of tne flCl\\' through the reservoir. <br /> <br />Out of a total of 214 clays in the irrigating season the reservoir <br />\Vas empty, and the Colorado ditches operated on priorities 159 clays <br />or 7470 of the entire season. The quantities of water crossing the State- <br />line as compared with the flow at the strltion helow the dam showed the <br />following percents: <br /> <br />9 <br />