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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8449.921
Description
Lower Platte Tri-County Project Water Demand & Power Studies
State
NE
Basin
South Platte
Date
5/26/1941
Author
CWCB
Title
Water Study Covering Joint Operation of the Columbus, Platte Valley and Tri-County Projects as Worked Out by PWA project Engineers
Water Supply Pro - Doc Type
Report/Study
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<br />~a.. <br /> <br />. i <br /> <br />6. That all power which can be produced by the ProjectS' system <br />for the first three year8 over and above the contrac1; l1aitatiene or the <br />Una power productlcm of 325.000,000 k11awat"t bowe per year be BOld ae <br />dlllllp power en the District' a contracts for the first three' yeare of the <br />Projects operaUon. <br /> <br />7. That at the end of th& first three Y88l'8 of the Projeota " <br />operation the lUdtat~:D f'or the &ale .r the f'll'll pcwer be revised h accord <br />BnOewith the experl~ of' those three years so that additional firm power <br />which there baa then 'bee:ll detel'lllined to be available. <br /> <br />I:a. my opWcm. the _tel' stud7 snd ccmolus1<ms presented abOTe <br />are c'>ntlervat1ve. <br /> <br />I <br />;j <br />l <br />I <br />., <br />,,' <br /> <br />The period s.naly&&d,tlaIIIcly. 19,0 te 1938. inclusive. repre- <br />acts a period of drought of unparalleled intensity or1th relmlt1ng 1.- <br />river floor. Projeet8 are now under construotiaa f'or thed1verslen of ad- <br />ditional _ter into the _tershe<l of the SoUth Platte River which. to <br />80la8 eite:zrt. N<If uu:rea80 the water anilabIe to the Proj8Cts f'rOllli.bat <br />River. Il:stbatea of beses frCJll seepage &ad eYapa:rat1cm. partlelllarly in <br />the 'fr1..coIlllt7 Projeci;'. Ca1UI.l Sylttea. -7 be emess1ve 4_ W 1nf~ t'rom <br />drainage 1n tile IIlUQ' iapoanded areas aa that Projeot's; Suppq Canal System. <br />Tllrovghoat the SI:lppl7 Canal of the 'l'r1-C_ty P~jeot. there,are mzmerouB <br />08JlyanB ed 11l1~ded reserro1i. dr8.in1Dg large areas. 'fbe Projeot System <br />proY1dear for nt>lllero1lll sp1l11lll:f8 at var10us JD1n'ts alcmg the es.nal ad res8l'Voir <br />area to sa1'e-r;uard the Sys'tea. It 1s believed that by opentiDg the storage <br />lU'eQlJ at reduced level. a great deal of tht. _tel' caa be picked 1;Ip to off- <br />set 108ses tbrovgl\out the projeot Systc.. No at'fec:t baa beea glvea to thi8 <br />pickup in the estt.l\e of 1o&a88 aIld tlle eatiJlate 18 theretore beHeved ~o be <br />oonservative. <br /> <br />The analysb or the _8S curq or1th lIIl elIIptoy resorvo1J- as at <br />Jsn\lary 1, 1930. and no aoooQllt 19 give to aevera.1 months or pos8ible <br />storage 111 the Fall of 1929. The stage 41agrea or the re8ervolP ClD C_ 18 <br />1ndieatell a continual gen..-al increa8e in "the storage 1n the Kingslq Reservoir <br />f'rom 1930 to January of 1934. wbsD appruilllately 175,000 acre feet was spilled <br />811 :lnd1oatad. This sp111 oan be stored 1n the SatlwrlalDd Reseno1r or in the <br />.10__ ad Jefhq Ilesenolrs to eff'-set 1.._ 1. tho Project~. ". <br />rss8rvoU stage cU~ tblm fnd1~tes that at tho oOllplet1<<a of the period. <br />1930 to 1938. there r_ina in the Xingsl"7 Reservelr apprm:1mately 675.000 <br />acre f'eet or st.orage as against the condlt111D of III empty reservoir with which <br />the stlJdy was sta:rted. <br /> <br />No ."ecnm:l: has been tam. of po8sible floxib111:t;y bI the Projee't <br />Systn and utllhat;lcm of 'the floods at the Saath Platte River to gen_to <br />power req'll1rod by the SlItberlaad Il:Dd Tri-CCil1IIIt,. Projects dvrmg the period or <br />tloed or to the possibi11't)- or stange of f'lood. _ters of tho Sovth Platte <br />RivOl' in 'the Jolmscm end Jeffrey Reservoirs witb the attendant cOIluervatiOll <br />of _tel' 1D. the North Platte River by tllll Kiq::slOJ' Beu8!'Voir. <br /> <br />. <br />
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