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2002 Transit Loss 2 May 16, 2003 <br />First Kansas Section HRelease <br />Your letter states that our analysis did not allow for an appropriate arrival time when <br />considering this Section II release. We disagree. The Section II release began on Wednesday, May <br />1, 2002 at 4:30 pm (CST). The water began arriving at the stateline approximately 54 hours later. <br />See attached hydrograph which represents the stateline flows and the calls on Section II. The Kansas <br />Section If release was continued through the weekend and was terminated with the morning gate <br />change on Monday morning, May 6th. The stateline flows do not support the conclusion that no <br />delivery deficit occurred during this operation. A delivery deficit was suffered by the Kansas Section <br />II release and should be made up to that account. <br />Our office did re- evaluate the delivery made to the stateline for this release. The delivery deficit <br />for this release is now considered to be 209 AF. The reason for adjustment was to fully account for <br />-the receding release at the stateline based on the enclosed hydrograph. <br />Second Kansas Section HRelease <br />The second Section II release began on Monday, June 17, 2002 at noon (CST) with a <br />instantaneous release rate of 400 cfs. The water began arriving at the stateline approximately 52 <br />hours later. <br />Early in this run, I was in contact with you as the stateline flow did not reflect what was being <br />release from the Kansas Section II Account, even with a significant transit loss account release. <br />Kansas called for a release of 400 cfs from our account, yet during the period of the release, the <br />stateline flow only briefly reached 300 cfs. <br />The Kansas Section II release was terminated when this account was exhausted on July 1, 2002 <br />at 12:50 pm. At that time, the remaining water in the Offset account was released. The Offset <br />account release continued until it was exhausted on July 4' at 2 am. The stateline flow dropped off <br />approximately 30 hours afterwards. The stateline flows do not support the conclusion that no <br />delivery deficit occurred during this operation. A delivery deficit was incurred to the Kansas Section <br />II account and should be made up to this account. <br />My staff reviewed this release and the deficit was determined as set out in my March 4' letter. <br />Kansas feels the release measurement should terminate 48 hours after the Kansas S ection II Account <br />was emptied as is consistent with normal practice for arrival times. This is an appropriate accounting <br />as the Section II release was followed immediately by a release from the Offset Account. During <br />the 48 hours, the full amount at the stateline was credited to the Kansas Section II. Therefore, there <br />have been no adjustments to the original determination indicated in my letter of March 4t''. The <br />delivery deficit for this Kansas Section II release is 4,166 AF. <br />Further, we do not agree with your inclusion of the runoff event that occurred after the Offset <br />Account release that followed the second Kansas Section II Release. It is inappropriate to turn any <br />portion of this precipitation runoff event into a Kansas Section II reservoir release. <br />