WSP13019 ‎(2)‎

• File Number: 8040.800
• Description: Colorado Water Resources
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 7/1/1999
• Author: Division of Water Resources
• Title: Colorado Water Supply Conditions Update Reports
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Data

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ARKANSAS BASIN

Basinwide Conditions Assessment
The SWSI value' of -2.2 indicates that for January the
basin water supplies were below normal. The Natural
Resources Conservation Service reports that February 1
snowpack is 58% of normal. Flow at the gaging station
Arkansas River near Portland was 365 cfs, as compared to
the long-term average of 374' cfs. Storage in Turquoise, Twin
Lakes, . Pueblo,and Jolin Martin reservoirs totaled 78% of
normal as of the end of January.

Administrative/Manaaement Concerns
Reservoir storage continues to accrue at a
frustratingly slow rate for the major winter storage programs.
The Pueblo Winter Water Program lagged behind last year's
year-to-date storage by about 10% and behind the average for
the previous five-year period by about 12%. Conservation
storage in John Martin Reservoir has only achieved
approximately 60% of the amount stored during the
comparable conservation storage period last year.

Press releases were developed during January to
alert well owners of the potential for reduced augmentation'
supplies and to encourage dry~year planning for the 2002
irrigation season. Workshops will be held in La Junta and
Pueblo in early March to present alternatives in a year of
potentially reduced well pl,lmping.

Public Use Impacts .
Meetings to discuss draft versions of the Rules
Governing the Arkansas River Water Bank Pilot Project have
elicited more active respooses as water rights owners begin to
review the proposed rules more closely. Revisions to the draft
rules are beginning to be shaped by.the good public feedback
received by the State Engineer.

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