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<br />0008~4 <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />adjacent, related habitat from Lexington to Columbus. <br />CPAOP factors determining allocation of managed water could be: <br /> <br />1) Quantity of allocated water available <br />- in Lake McConaughy and other Platte River Valley <br />reservoirs <br />- in Colorado and Wyoming Platte River Basin reservoirs <br />2) status of existing habitat in the Platte River Valley <br />3) Status of habitat throughout the species' range and <br />distribution <br />4) Current operating conditions of the Platte River <br /> <br />The CPAOP schedule might look like this: <br /> <br />January - Determine (estimate) quantity of water available <br /> <br />February - Allocate water for the year <br />Begin wet meadow maintenance flows <br /> <br />March - Whooping crane flows <br />Reevaluate forecasted basin runoff <br /> <br />April - Whooping crane flows <br />May - Taper off whooping crane flows into tern/plover flows <br /> <br />June - Tern and plover summer flows <br /> <br />July - Tern and plover summer flows <br /> <br />August - Tern and plover summer flows <br /> <br />September - Taper summer flows up into fall flows <br />October - Whooping crane fall flows <br /> <br />November - Whooping crane fall flows <br /> <br />December - Bald eagle and forage fish flows <br />January - Bald eagle flows and begin estimating water supply <br /> <br />Alternative 2: Historic Hydrograph <br /> <br />Under this alternative all species would be given equal weight <br />and consideration. This alternative would augment flows at times <br />of the year when the current hydrograph differs the most, on the <br />low side, from the pre-development flow regime. As an example, <br />the earliest continuous gauging records from Duncan (1929-38) <br />shows that two major flow pulses which formerly occurred in the <br /> <br />3 <br />