WAP 2001-2002 PRRIP

• Description: Staff Notebook for Platte River Research Cooperative Agreement ‎(aka Platte River Recovery Implementation Program or PRRIP)‎ Water Advisory Committee ‎(WAC)‎ Meetings including memos, comments, emails, minutes, letters, agendas, notes, etc. 2001-2002
• State: CO
• State: NE
• State: WY
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 1/1/2001
• Author: CWCB Staff
• Title: Staff Notebook for Platte River Research Cooperative Agreement Water Advisory Committee ‎(WAC)‎ Meetings for 2001-2002
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Meeting

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3. Application of Instream Flow Recommendations in the Context of the Proposed Program
The following table summarizes how USFWS instream flow recommendations, as defined
above, hay h=u and will continue to be applied in the context of various Program- related
activities:
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(1) Calculation of historic shortages to target flows.
In 1994, FWS estimated "Instream Flow Shortages" at Grand Island, Nebraska, by comparing
1943 -1992 historic daily flows against the recommended daily instream flow over each of ten
periods of the year (October 1 through November 15, etc.). The daily instream flows used for
this comparison were the species flows and the annual pulse flows only (i.e., the "Program
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Instream flow recommendations
used as basis for evaluation
Species
Annual Pulse
Peak
(1) Calculation of historic shortages to targets (417,000
X
X
AF /year)
(2) "Scoring" of the Proposed Program and alternatives relative
X
X
to the 130,000 - 150,000 AF /year First Increment goal
(3) Water Conservation/Supply Study (Boyle Report):
X
X
"scoring" of potential projects
(4) FWS/GG consideration/approval of any proposed Water
X
X
X
Action Plan projects (new or substitutional) as an element of
the Program
(5) Evaluation of whether a proposed project is covered by a
X
X
X
state or federal €fie depletion plan (see Section 7
consultation flow chart, "**aohment F in Program Water Plan)
(6) Replacement obligations under state and federal €tire
X
X
depletion plans, for projects covered by Plan
(7) EIS and BO evaluation of the Proposed Program
X
X
X
(8) Future evaluations of Program benefits (for example, at the
X
X
X
end of the First Increment)
(9) Operation of approved Water Action Plan projects and the
X
X
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three initial Program projects relative to Service target flows /9
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The following discussion elaborates on this summary: li 91 "
(1) Calculation of historic shortages to target flows.
In 1994, FWS estimated "Instream Flow Shortages" at Grand Island, Nebraska, by comparing
1943 -1992 historic daily flows against the recommended daily instream flow over each of ten
periods of the year (October 1 through November 15, etc.). The daily instream flows used for
this comparison were the species flows and the annual pulse flows only (i.e., the "Program
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