SWSIReportJan2004

• Title: Colorado Water Supply Conditions Report
• Date: 1/21/2004
• Description: Presentation
• Basin: Statewide
• Drought Mitigation - Doc Type: Presentation

ARKANSAS BASIN

Basinwide Conditions Assessment
The SWSI value of -1.8 indicates that for December
the basin water supplies were below normal The Natural
Resources Conservation Service reports that January 1
snowpack is 69% of normal. Flow at the gaging stallOn
Arkansas River near Portland was 370 cfs, as compared 10
the long-term average of 402 cfs. Storage in Turquoise. TWin
Lakes. Pueblo. and John Martin reservoirs totaled 42% of
normal as of the end of December

Administrative/ManaQement Concems
The Pueblo Winter Water system grand total was
32,640 acre-feet at the end of December. which represents
a small improvement from last year's storage at this time of
27,671 acre-feet. The previous five year average for this
period is 62.888 acre-feel
Conservation storage In John Martin ReservOir is
lagging behind recent year's delivenes. Storage since
November 1" has been 2.314 acre-feet while storage a year
ago for the same time period was 3.378 acre-feet Inflow
contributions from the Purgatoire River have been almost
nonexistent
Implementation of several plans related to proposed
Aurora operallons In the basin and review of several large
and complex water court cases will Involve considerable staff
time in early 2004

Jan-04

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