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The reservoir was most effectively utilized when storage contents on April 1, which usually reflect the lowest contents throughout the year, were charged to next year's filling. Legal bypasses of storage are lower using this scenario, while there are no physical spills (W.W. Wheeler & Associates, Inc., 1981). Table 6 contains the estimated flow at the Maybell gaging station under this scenario for calender years 1930-1982. The mean monthly flows at the Maybell gaging station with the Juniper Project were estimated for water years 1983-1986 using similar methods as described previously. The steps taken were: The mean monthly flows in acre-feet were converted to mean monthly flows in cfs and then arranged by water years for 1941-1982. Monthly accretions and depletions between the project and historic Maybell record were calculated by subtracting the historic monthly mean from the project monthly mean, and then averaging each month over the 1941-1982 water year period. This provided 12 mean monthly accretion/depletion values between the historic and project conditions at the Maybell gaging station. Project monthly means for the 1983-1986 water years were then estimated by adding/subtracting the mean monthly accretion/depletion with the historic mean monthly flows. With mean monthly flows for the project 1941-1986 water year period, the ratio between the project mean monthly flow and the historic mean monthly flow was computed for every month of the 1941-1986 water year period. These are shown in Table 7. The FORTRAN program (Hisratio) multiplied each daily flow value of the Maybell 'with project' 1941-1986 record by the above ratios, resulting in daily flow values for the project condition at the Maybell gage. The FORTRAN program (Addailyq) then added the Maybell 'with project' daily flows to the historic Little Snake near Lily daily flows to obtain a daily flow record at Deerlodge Park with the Juniper Project for water years 1941-1986. HISTORIC, BASELINE, AND WITH PROJECT RESULTS The mean monthly hydrographs for the 1941-1986 water year period, based upon the daily values at Deerlodge Park, are shown in Figures 2 and 3. Individual- monthly flows are shown in Tables 8 through 10 for the 'historic', baseline, and 'with project' flows, respectively.