BOARD00277

• Board Meeting Date: 9/11/1970
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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capacity in the reservoir for fishery and
recreation. We have included that in our plans.

Fifth was the recommendation that the
Little Axial Reservoir which is a small exist-
ing reservoir right along the highway - I think
most of you are familiar with it - right north
of the town of Axial. It is a privately owned
lake now which contains about 10 acre-feet.
They recommended that we make provisions for
this to be a public access reservoir and main-
tain the level in it for fishery purposes.
We have made that provision in our project plan
so that the land areas below there that use
this small amount of water out of there we can
serve those land areas through Thornburg Reser-
voir out of Milk Creek and we can reserve this
reservoir for recreation and fishery purposes.

Then sixth, they requested that minimum
releases at Ripple Reservoir, right down stream
from the reservoir in the North Fork of the
White River, be 100 cfs in the summer and 60
cfs or the natural flow in the winter. We have
attempted to meet this recommendation and most
all of the time we have met it. There are a
few year s, out of the 25 year study there is
about four or five exceptionally dry years when
there is not that much water in the stream and
the irrigation part of the plan, the M&I part
of the plan and fishery flows would all take
some shortages. However, we worked it so that
we would never drop this stream in the dry
years below 60 cfs in the summer and 30 in the
winter.

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The next recommendation was down at the
diversion dam where we divert Yellow Jacket
Canal out of the North Fork of the White River. I
They requested bypasses there of 125 cfs in the
summer and 80 cfs in the winter. Again we have
attempted to meet those and most years we do
meet that flow requirement. In the dry years
again there will be some shortage here but it
will never go below that 60 and 30 cfs. Right