Southeastern Colorado Water Activity Enterprise Minutes June 17 2004

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SECWCD June 17, 2004 7 RECORD OF PROCEEDING DIVISION ENGINEER'S REPORT: contents and the most recent Daily Report of the river Steve Witte reviewed the reservoir readings for 6/17/04. 100 342 acre -feet Turquoise Reservoir Twin Lakes Reservoir 123,557 acre -feet Clear Creek Reservoir 8,814 acre -feet 93,773 acre -feet Pueblo Reservoir John Martin Reservoir 5,549 acre -feet Trinidad Reservoir 25,731 acre -feet Lake Meredith 13,163 acre -feet Lake Henry 4,856 acre -feet Dye Reservoir - Holbrook Reservoir " Horse Creek Reservoir - Adobe Creek Reservoir Great Plains Reservoirs 0 acre -feet 55,000 Mt. Pisgah Reservoir 1,23 acre -feet Brush Hollow Reservoir 3 145 acre -feet 3399 acre -feet Fountain Valley Reservoir 3,692 acre -feet DeWeese Reservoir Arkansas River at Portland 1,250 cfs. Arkansas River above Pueblo 872 cfs. River Call 02/21/1887 Amity Mr. Witte passed around a graph showing runoff comparisons of the Arkansas River at Canon City for the years 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Runoff peaked at Canon City at 2,265 cfs on June 9, and diminished precipitously by June 14. This caused the river call to drop as low as May 1, 1887. Mr. Witte thanked the SECWCD for their support and assistance in obtaining the Colorado Supreme Court's affirmation of the Division Engineer's position in the recently announced decision in the Trail's End Ranch case. FRY -ARK PROJECT REPORT: Mr. Musgrove reported as of June 15, there was 93,549 acre -feet of water stored in Pueblo Reservoir. 66,542 acre -feet of Project water, 9,535 acre -feet of water stored in If & When space, and 18,517 acre -feet of Winter water. Reclamation currently has 190,407 acre -feet of project space in Pueblo Reservoir, and 32,893 acre -feet of Project space available in Turquoise and Twin Lakes Reservoirs. Mr. Musgrove said to date Reclamation has diverted over 24,000 acre -feet of water through Boustead Tunnel this year. Boustead Tunnel is currently running at 59 cfs. In May Reclamation closed the Midway and No Name diversions sites to allow 1,755 acre -feet of water to be bypassed for the Twin Lakes exchange. At approximately noon on June 17, Reclamation will have met that requirement, and at 2:00 p.m. plan to resume diversions from the two sites. There should be an additional 20 to 30 cfs. to pickup. Brian Person said he gave an overview of the SOD monitoring of Pueblo Dam last month, and said he was scheduled to appear before the Pueblo City Council, which he did on June 14. Mr. Broderick said Mr. Person gave a great presentation to the Pueblo City Council, and it was a great opportunity to give them accurate information. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY REPORT: Mr. Edelmann reported streamflow in the upper Arkansas River Basin peaked, depending on locale, between June 6 and June 10. The 2004 peak flow was in the lower 25 percentile of peak