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<br />1'm going to walk through some streamflow and some general information that we have. We've <br />all seen this, the drought monitor, of course Colorado sits in here, and I want to point out that even <br />though we're anticipating some relief here along the Front Range, I think Klaus will get into the <br />storm coming in, we're getting hopefully some good relief short term, that we still have a long <br />ways to go to make up, and its certainly going to help us in the short term, but in the long term <br />we've got a long ways to go. This is an interesting map that USGS puts out, I want to make sure <br />to give them credit, I stole it from them. Where it gives an idea of real time streamflow data, <br />they're able to pull up and do some analysis that our system won't quite do yet. To give us some <br />comparison between today's stream flow and the historic streamflow, and it's qualitative data, but <br />it does give you an idea that you can look at the darker red dots and identify that certainly from a <br />streamflow standpoint we are certainly well below normal. In the South Platte, 1'm going through <br />those fairly quickly, because you know where the South Platte Basin is. This was a picture we got <br />from the Snaking fire, I feel bad now, I saw a great picture last night of the Schoonover fire, but I <br />think we shouldn't forget, and its good that we had the briefmg of that early. This is Dillon, and it <br />gets into the South Platte, even though it is on the other side, because the South Platte Basin gets a <br />fair amount, Denver, from Dillon, and if you haven't been by it yet, I was by it just last week and <br />will go by it again tonight, it is as low as 1've seen it, and I grew up here in Colorado, and I <br />can't. . .1 don't remember when it filled, but I venture to say it may have been that low at that time, <br />and I can't remember when it was that low since then. May of last year. Now I do this because <br />the scaling is very good. You expect Julesburg to be flat, you don't to give Nebraska any more <br />water than we have to, certainly, as we get back up to Kersey, we do try to have some water in the <br />stream. Now this is last year. Now last year was a pretty dry year. 1'm sorry, the scale is just a <br />little bit large. This is this year. Now again, you notice we're not giving Nebraska much, but we <br />don't get much ourselves, this is blown up to scale a little bit, gives you an idea that we are, in <br />fact, way low, about a tenth of what we would normally have flow within the South Platte at <br />Kersey. This gives you an idea of where we were, this is the historic minimum flow, the dotted <br />line. The 2001, last year we have here, this is the historic mean. Now generally we get some <br />pretty good flows in the Platte River at Kersey, usually in June, when we have our runoff, and we <br />mentioned we're a couple of months of head. We may have actually been, let's see...one, two, <br />three is our peak here in March. We're right here at the end of April, this is a monthly average so <br />it's not calculated for May yet. I suggest to you that although we're having some storms and I will <br />mention that the runoff does help the Kersey gage, we generally don't see. . . <br /> <br />- When you say historic mean minimum flow, what's.. . (inaudible)..was that in the '30s <br />and '50s? <br /> <br />Jack - It's from '76 to 2000. Its not, it doesn't go back, and one of the problems we have, we can <br />go back to the State Engineer, somebody asked about '50s, going back into the '50's and '30s, and <br />the State Engineer Reports indicate things like 40% of streamflow, 30% of streamflow, but we <br />don't have real good number crunching to be able to pull back that far. And again, 1'll suffer the <br />embarrassment and say that a lot of this data we get from USGS. This gives you Julesburg, again <br />we don't like to give them much water, but you can still see that in June we usually end up giving <br />quite a bit of water down through the stream, just because we can't pull it off. We like not to give <br />it, but we can't pull it off. <br /> <br />12 <br />