BOARD01352

• Board Meeting Date: 2/1/1966
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

normal except in the Arkansas Basin where it
was up to about 175. This is considerably lass
than the runoff for the 1957 water year which
was about 130 percent of normal with around
200 percent in the Arkansas Basin.

Computations have been virtually completed I
for the indirect measurements of flows that
resulted from the June floods. The results can
be obtained from the district office if you
wish. Preliminary reports were sent out some
time ago that had about 50 percent of the
results published in the report. Most of the
others can be obtained now by calling us.

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Cha~ges continue to be made on the analog
model of the Arkansas Valley to refine the
various paramaters. Personnel from the Pan-
Ark project office of the Bureau of Reclamation
visited the Analog Model in Phoenix on January
18th. He hoped at that time to have a member
of the State Engineer's office present also
but due to another commitment he was unable to
attend. You will notice in our written state-
ment that \~e said a member of the state Engi-
neer's office also attended but he didn't get
there for the meeting.

Field work in the piceance Basin was com-
pleted in October and preparation of data for
the final report is now under way.

~"ater le,"=ls \~ere measured it'. observation
wells in the San Luis Valley on January 11 and
12. \'Tater levels rose from 1 to 14 feet and
averaged about 4 feet higher than when measured
in November of 1964. A mass measurement of
water levels in about 450 wells in the High
plains was begun on January 24th. Four men
from the U.S.G.S. and one from Colorado State
University participated.

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Seventeen new gaging stations were in-
stalled during the surnro~r construction period.
Three of the stations, in the Yampa River basin