WSP12341

• File Number: 8111.600
• Description: ARCA Annual Reports
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 1/4/1982
• Author: ARCA
• Title: Thirty-Third Annual Report Arkansas River Compact Administration for the Year 1981
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

RESERVOIR
Capacity, acre-feet .621,326
Flood control storage, acre-feet. . ZlO,375
Conser....ation (irrigation) and recreation, storage, acre.feet .....350,951
Water surface at spillway crest. acres. 8,960
Water surface at top of conservation pool, acres. 11,655
Water surface at top of flood control pool. acres. 17,630
Drainage area, square miles. 18,915
A 1,2-mile DC the historic Santa Fe Trail north of the reservoir has
been enclosed by a fence. An appropriate sign perpetuates this bit of
Americana for posterity.

7. Cooperative Studies and Activities:
(a) Article VIII G , I) of Arkansas River Compact requires the
Administration to cooperate with the Chief Official 01 each of
the states of Colorado and Kansas charged with the ad-
ministration 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 Marlin Reservoir and other related structure. Article VIII
G '21 requests the Director of the United States Geological
Survey, the Commissioner of the United States Bureau of
Reclamation, and the Chief of the Engineers, United States
Army, to cooperate and collaborate with the Administration and
with appropriate State officials in such determinations and
correlations of stream flow and related data. Under the By-
Laws of the Administration, these cooperative studies and ac-
tivities are assigned to the Engineering Committee of the
Administration.
(bl During the year covered by this report the Administration has
received excellent cooperation from all agencies referred to in
the foregoing provisions of the Compact. The United States
Geological Survey has continued the operation of the compact
gaging stations and the analysis and compilaton of the
hydrologic data presented in this report and used in the ad-
ministration of the Compact.
(c) Of special note for the 1981 Compact Year was the installation of
a satelJite communications network for the. compact gaging
stations. This gave participants information on real time events
as they happened. A storm event could be recognized and action
taken immediately. These radio satellite telemetry systems and
new telemark installations improved the conservation of waters
in the Arkansas Valley. Althougb the satellite installations were
on an experimental basis, their benefits were proven and are
expected to continue for many years.
(d) 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 Administration. A new area
capacity table for John Martin Reserovir was issued by the
Army Corps of Engineers and put into effect August 12, 1981.

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