Combined Operations Secretary and Offset Accounting Report (Summary and Tables) Compact Year 2008

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Kansas placed a call for release of water available to them from the Offset account on June 27, 2008 which continued until July 5, 2008. Following this releases were continued from the Kansas Section II account beginning on July 5, 2008 and ending on July 18, 2008. A second Offset account release followed. It started on July 18, 2008 and ended July 23, 2008. A total of 14,121.96 acre feet was released out of the Kansas Section II account (See Section 2 — Table IX) and 14,554.8 acre feet was released from the Offset account (See Section 2 — Table III). Because these releases were made consecutively, the Agreement Concerning the Offset Account in John Martin Reservoir for Colorado Pumping, Determination of Credits for Delivery of Water Released for Colorado Pumping, and Related Matters, dated September 30, 2005 was used to determine that no transit loss resulted to water released from the Kansas Section II account. See Section 2 — Table XIII and associated worksheets Transit loss computations and crediting for the Offset Account portion of the release are ' discussed separately in the Report of the Colorado State Engineer Concerning Accounting of the Operations of an Offset Account in John Martin Reservoir for Colorado Pumping, 2008. ' A summary of combined operations of the Colorado Section II accounts is included in Section 2 — Table XII. ' Kansas was provided notification on July 16, 2008 of a planned operation to deliver Frying Pan - Arkansas Project Water to the Ft. Bent Ditch for the benefit of the City of Lamar by means of a by -pass through John Martin Reservoir. On September 16, 2008, Kansas was advised that this ' delivery ended on September 10, 2008. In total, 918.4 acre -feet of Frying Pan - Arkansas Project Water was released from Pueblo Reservoir in this operation. After being charged appropriate transit -loss, 824.3 acre -feet arrived at John Martin Reservoir and was passed through to the Ft Bent canal. ' There were two events during the summer storage season that resulted in additions to conservation storage. The first event started on August 16th and lasted through August 23rd. It had total inflows of 14,571.7 acre feet. The second event started on October 13th and ended on ' October 16th with total inflows of 5,785.27 acre feet. This water was released to Kansas and Colorado accounts in accordance with the 1980 Operating Plan. P_.� There was one occasion not related to operation of the Pueblo winter storage plan (August 17th _ 26th), when it was determined that the Amity Canal was entitled to store a total of 4,649.95 acre - feet of water in its Section III account. Of this amount, 35% or 1,627.47 acre -feet was transferred into the Kansas transit loss account, the Kansas Section II account, and the Colorado Water District 67 accounts pursuant to Section III D of the 1980 Operating Plan. See Section 2 — Table VIII The compact year closed on October 31, 2008 with an ending balance for all accounts in John Martin Reservoir totaling, 32,655.01 acre -feet. See Section 2 — Table XIV. Section 3 of this report contains the daily accounting for the compact year.