PUB00118

• Year: 2000
• Title: Arkansas River Water Needs Assessment
• CWCB Section: Interstate & Federal
• Author: Smith and Hill
• Description: Information and findings associated with the Arkansas River Water Needs Assessment study
• Publications - Doc Type: Historical

Table of Contents

letter to ArkilJ1sas River Stakehoiders _~__

IIi

Preface

v

Acknowledgments

vII

Section I. Executive Summary 1-1

Preface__ 1-iii

Acknowledgments _ 1-v

Summary of the Arkansas River Institutional and legal Analysis _1-1

Native Riverflows and Senior Downstream Water Rights _ 1-1

Early Transmountain Diversions and
Upper Basin Storage Facilities 1-4

Municipal Water Supply Systems 1-4

Fryingpan-Arkansas Project _ 1-5

Arkansas River Compact of 1948 1-6

Annual Flow Management Program 1-6

Institution~ and legal Opportunities for Water Management _ 1-6

Summary of the Hydrologic Analysis/of Changes in Arkansas
River Flows Since 1889 1-7

Operation of the FryingpilJ1-Arkansas Project 1-8

Water Management Objectives and
Actions to Optimize Yield _ 1-8

Baseline Arkansas River Hydrograph Incorporating
Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Operations 1-10

Water Needed to Protect or Promote Critical Resource Values __1-11

Overview of Natural Resource Water Preferences by location __1-11

Arkansas River Flow Preferences 1-11

Comparison of Natural Resource Flow Preferences to
Baseline Arkansas River Flows _ 1-12

Turquoise Reservoir, Twin lakes, iIJ1d Clear Creek
Reservoir Water level Preferences 1-17

Puebio Reservoir Water level Preferences_ 1-19

Summary of Natural Resource Water Preferences
by Individual Resource Values _ 1-20

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