Colorado Water Resources Circular No. 20

• Description: Colorado Water Resources Circular No. 20, Transit Losses and Travel Times for Reservoir Releases, Upper Arkansas River Basin, Colorado
• State: CO
• State: KS
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 1/1/1973
• Author: Russell K. Livingston, U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado Division of Water Resources: Office of the State Engineer, Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District
• Title: Colorado Water Resources Circular No. 20, Transit Losses and Travel Times for Reservoir Releases, Upper Arkansas River Basin, Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

I.LLUSTRATIONS
Page
Figure 1. Index map of upper Arkansas River basin . . . . . . .
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2. Hydrographs
of reservoir releases, September 10 -19,
1951 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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3 -11. Graphs
showing:
3.
Travel time of releases from Twin Lakes Reservoir
to Colorado Canal headgate. . . . . . . . . . .
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4.
Rate of channel storage for releases from Twin
Lakes Reservoir to Colorado Canal . . . . . . .
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5.
Effect of reservoir releases on the ground -water
component of the flow in the upper Arkansas
River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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6.
Rate of bank storage during releases from Twin
Lakes Reservoir to Colorado Canal . . . . . . .
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7.
Inadvertent diversions from Arkansas River as a
result of releases from Twin Lakes Reservoir
to Colorado Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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8.
Increase in surface area of Arkansas River as a
result of releases from Twin Lakes Reservoir
to Colorado Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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9.
Arkansas River evaporation due to increases in
surface area resulting from releases from
Twin Lakes Reservoir to Colorado Canal. . . . .
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10.
Arkansas River evaporation due to increases in
river temperature resulting from releases from
Twin Lakes Reservoir to Colorado Canal (June,
July, August, and September) . . . . . . . . . .
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11.
Recession curves of releases from Twin Lakes
Reservoir to Colorado Canal , . . . . . . . . .
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TABLES
Table 1. Average discharge of the upper Arkansas River . . . . 6
2. Stage - discharge relationship for the Arkansas River
near Wellsville gaging station (07093700) . . . . . 10
3. Bank storage from,gai.n -loss relationship 16 hours
after arrival of release, Granite to Colorado Canal. 15
4. Bank storage for releases from Twin Lakes Reservoir
to Colorado Canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5. Ditches studied in defining inadvertent diversion
l osses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6. Summary of Arkansas River evaporation calculations. . 24
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