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Colorado Water Resources Circular No. 20, Transit Losses and Travel Times for Reservoir Releases, Upper Arkansas River Basin, Colorado
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1/1/1973
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Russell K. Livingston, U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado Division of Water Resources: Office of the State Engineer, Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District
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Colorado Water Resources Circular No. 20, Transit Losses and Travel Times for Reservoir Releases, Upper Arkansas River Basin, Colorado
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I X765 <br />*ate of release: 6 -5 -71 Amount of release: 400 ft /s Duration of release: 10 days (240 hours) <br />Flow at Wellsville gaging station prior to release: 500 ft /s <br />(Call 539 -6487 for stage, obtain discharge from table 2) <br />Time of travel (fig. 3): 49 hours <br />EXAMPLE 2 <br />RELEASE FROM Twin Lakes RESERVOIR TO Colorado Canal <br />TRANSPORTATION LOSSES <br />Bank storage (fig. 6) <br />3 <br />Time interval <br />(hours) <br />0 -1 <br />1 -3 <br />3 -11 <br />11 -21 <br />21 -72 <br />72 -312 <br />312+ <br />Totals <br />Maximum time <br />in hours <br />1 <br />2 <br />8 <br />10 <br />51 <br />240 <br />Actual time <br />in interval <br />(hours) <br />1 <br />2 <br />8 <br />10 <br />51 <br />168 <br />240 <br />4 <br />Average <br />bank storage <br />in interval <br />(ft /s) <br />520 <br />260 <br />140 <br />90 <br />55 <br />30 <br />5 <br />Bank storage <br />in time interval <br />(col. 3 x col. 4, <br />hours x ft /s) <br />520 <br />520 <br />1,120 <br />900 <br />2,805 <br />5,040 <br />10,905 <br />Charge for bank storage loss is 70 percent of column 5 divided by duration of release: 31.8 ft /s <br />Inadvertent diversions <br />Charge for inadvertent diversion losses (fig. 7): 37.5 ft /s <br />Evaporation <br />Surface area increase (fig. 8): 215 acres <br />Charge for change in surface area (fig. 9): 3.1 ft /s <br />Charge for change in river temperature (fig. 10): 0.7 ft /s <br />TOTAL TRANSPORTATION LOSS--------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - -- 73.1 ft /s <br />TOTAL TRANSPORTATION LOSS (percent of release) ------------------------------------------ - - - - -- 18.3 <br />During recession at Colorado Canal <br />Final divertible discharge from column 9 above------------------------------- -- --- --- - - - - - -- 329 ft /s <br />Release recession began at 0730 hours <br />Time interval from beginning Average divertible discharge <br />of recession (hours) (fig. 11, ft /s) <br />0 -4 281 <br />4 -8 192 <br />8 -12 116 <br />12 -16 57 <br />16 -22 14 <br />22 -32 0 <br />33 <br />DIVERSION SCHEDULES <br />Prior to recession at Colorado Canal <br />1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />Average <br />Channel <br />Average <br />Time <br />Maximum time <br />Release <br />bank storage <br />Inadvertent <br />Evaporation <br />storage <br />Total <br />divertible . <br />interval <br />in hours <br />discharge <br />(col. 4 above, <br />diversion <br />(ft /s) <br />(fig. 4, <br />(cols. 4 -7, <br />discharge <br />( hours) <br />(ft /s ) <br />ft /s) <br />(ft /s) <br />ft /s <br />ft /s) <br />(ft /s) <br />0 -1 <br />1 <br />400 <br />520 <br />37.5 <br />3.9 <br />315 <br />876 <br />- -- <br />1-3 <br />2 <br />400 <br />260 <br />37.5 <br />3.9 <br />215 <br />516 <br />- -- <br />3 -11 <br />8 <br />400 <br />140 <br />37.5 <br />3.9 <br />100 <br />281 <br />119 <br />11 -21 <br />10 <br />400 <br />90 <br />37.5 <br />3.9 <br />30 <br />161 <br />239 <br />21 -72 <br />51 <br />400 <br />55 <br />37.5 <br />3.9 <br />0 <br />96 <br />304 <br />72 -312 <br />240 <br />400 <br />30 <br />37.5 <br />3.9 <br />- -- <br />71 <br />329 <br />312+ <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- - -- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />Release arrived at 0630 <br />hours <br />During recession at Colorado Canal <br />Final divertible discharge from column 9 above------------------------------- -- --- --- - - - - - -- 329 ft /s <br />Release recession began at 0730 hours <br />Time interval from beginning Average divertible discharge <br />of recession (hours) (fig. 11, ft /s) <br />0 -4 281 <br />4 -8 192 <br />8 -12 116 <br />12 -16 57 <br />16 -22 14 <br />22 -32 0 <br />33 <br />
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