WSP10461

• File Number: 8111.808
• Description: Arkansas River Compact Administration - Transit Loss
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 1/1/1978
• Author: USGS
• Title: Transit Losses and Traveltimes of Reservoir Releases Along the Arkansas River from Pueblo Reservoir to John Martin Reservoir. Southeastern Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Table 7.--May-through-October transit losses of a base release
(100 cubic feet per second for 10 days) from Pueblo
Reservoir to selected sites along the study reach

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Site
num-
ber1

Site
name

Transit loss, In percent, for Indicated
antecedent streamflow condition2

Very low Low Medium High Very high

6 Colorado Canal-----~-------
9 Oxford Canal headgate------
10 Otero Canal headgate-------
11 Catlin Canal headgate------
14 Rocky Ford Canal headgate--

16 Fort Lyon Canal headgate---
18 Las Animas Consolidated
Canal headgate-----------
21 Arkansas River below John
Martin Reservoir gage----

7.4
10.3
13.7
15.8
18.7
26.0

35.7

50.1

6.3
8.7
11.0
12.3
14.5
19.7
27.3
37.5

4.1
5.6
6.9
7.7
8.9

11. 7
15.6

21.0

2.3
3.3
4.0
4.5
5.2

6.7
8.7

11.5

1.6
2.3
2.8
3.1
3.5

4.4

5.5

7.4

1Locations shown by site number on figure 1. River~mlle locations of
sites given in table 1.
2Defined by the foliowing average antecedent streamflows:

Antecedent streamflow, in cubic feet per second,
Streamflow for indicated subreach
condition 1 2 3 4 5 6
Very low-- 100 100 70 20 5 5
LOW--nn- 200 200 150 70 10 20
Medium-n- 600 600 500 300 100 150
High-nn- 2,000 2,000 1,600 1,000 500 600
Very hlgh- 4,000 4,000 4,000 3,000 2,000 2,000

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