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• File Number: 8111.600
• Description: ARCA Annual Reports
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 1/1/1988
• Author: ARCA
• Title: Fortieth Annual Report Arkansas River Compact Administration for the Year 1988
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

DAM
Total length, feel....... .................... ...........................................
Maximum height above streambed, feet .............. .........................
Width of roadway on dam, feet. ........... ............... ....................................

........................13.945
............. 118
................21

SPILLWAY
To[allength, including piers, feet ............... ...................."
Crest gates, 30' x 64' ..... ...............................
Discharge (:apacily, cubic feel per second .......

................... 1,174
...... 16
................................................ 639,200

OUTLET WORKS
Sluicing conduits. 6' x 7-1/2' ............ .................................................... ......................... 4
Regulating conduits. 4' x 4' .... ............................................... ........................2

RESERVOIR
Capacity, acre-feet at elevation 3.870.00 ..... .................... ..................................608.245
Flood control storage. acre-feet storage .............................. .............................. .259.562
Conservation (irrigation) and recreation storage,
acre-feet at elevation 3,851.87...................
Water surface at spillway crest. acres ....................
Water surface at top of cons~rvation pool. acres .................
Water surface at top of flood control pool. acres ....................
Drainage area, square miles .... ................... .............................

............................ . 348.683
........... 8.975
............................. 11.645
.................... .. 17.151
..........................18.915

7. COOPERATIVE STUDIES AND ACTIVITIES:

Article VIII G( I) of Arkansas RiverCompactrequires the Administration to cooperate with
the Chief Offici1l1 of each of the states of Colorado and Kansas charged with the
1ldministration 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 Mallin Reservoir
and other related structures. Article VIII G (2) requests the Director of the United States
Geological Survey. the Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, and the
Chief of Engineers, United States Army, to cooperate and collaborate with the Administra-
tion and with nppropriate State officials in such determinations and correlations of stream
now and related data. Under the By-Laws of the Administration, these cooperative studies
and activities are assigned [0 the Engineering Committee of the Administration.

During the year covered by this report the Administration has received excellent coopera-
lion from all agencies referred lO in !he foregoing provisions of rhe Compact. The United
States Geological Survey has continued the operation of lhe compact gaging stations and
the analysis and compilation of the hydrologic data presented in this report and used in the
administration 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 Administra.
Lion. The area-capacity table for John Martin Reservoir issued by the Army Corps of
Engineers and put into effect August 12. 1981 was replaced by a new area.capacity table
effective on February 1, 1988.

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