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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8111.750
Description
ARCA
Basin
Arkansas
Date
12/8/2003
Author
ARCA Operations Sec.
Title
Special Report of the Operations Secretary Concerning Processes to Resolve Administrative Issues, the Status of Issues, and a Proposal to Alternate the Offices of Operations Sec. and Assistant Ops Sec
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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />flood control storage mav be made at times and rates detennined bv the Corps <br />of Engineers to be necessary or advisable without regard to ditch diversion <br />capacities or requirements in either OT both States, [emphasis added] <br /> <br />(3) The conservation 0001 will be operated for the benefit of water users in <br />Colorado and Kansas,.. as provided by this Compact, [emphasis added] <br /> <br />Since the Administration is empowered only to adopt rules and procedures that are <br />consistent with the Compact and since the language of the Section II G does not <br />recognize that the Corps of Engineers may conduct flood control operations by releasing <br />water by means of the outlet gates without causing water to spill physically over the <br />project's spillway, it is my position that the criterion to be used to detennine the <br />occurrence of a spill is when the maximum allowable invasion of the flood pool by the <br />permanent pool occurs and, thereafter, any additional water impounded above that <br />elevation is flood control storage and is not available for the benefit of water users in <br />Colorado and Kansas. <br /> <br />My reconnnendation is that, as an interim measure, the Operations Connnittee should <br />direct that in the event that runoff conditions occur in the Arkansas River basin upstream <br />of lohn Martin Reservoir that cause the conservation pool to be filled and that cause the <br />quantity of water then extant in the permanent recreation pool to invade the flood control <br />storage, the Operations Secretary should account for the quantities in each account taking <br />into consideration that the accounts spill in the order prescribed in Section II G of the <br />1980 Operating Plan (except as modified by Section 13 of the Resolution Concerning an <br />Offset Account in lohn Martin Reservoir for Colorado Well Pumping, approved March <br />17, 1997) from the point when the maximum allowable invasion ofthe flood control <br />storage by the permanent pool occurs as prescribed by the Administration's Resolution <br />Concerning lohn Martin Reservoir Permanent Pool, dated August 14, 1976, I also <br />reconnnend that the Operations Connnittee amend Section II G of the 1980 Operating <br />Plan to make this intention clear, <br /> <br />Accountinl! spills from accounts #51 <br /> <br />Kansas also infers from Section II G of the 1980 Operating Plan that the quantification of <br />spills from accounts should also be based on the release (outflow) rate from the reservoir. <br />Kansas notes that there is no specific provision in the 1980 Operating Plan for a separate <br />Flood Pool account and concludes that water held in storage above the maximum <br />allowable level of invasion into the flood control storage has not physically spilled and <br />therefore should retain its original account identity, Based on these positions, the <br />Assistant Operations Secretary has proposed an alternative accounting procedure that <br />would permit the owners of spilling accounts to store water above the maximum <br />allowable invasion of the flood control storage, This benefit occurs at the expense of <br />conservation storage, which is to be allocated to both States pursuant to Section II D of <br />the 1980 Operating Plan, <br /> <br />- 15 - <br />
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