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<br />Tab]e
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<br />Water available for irrigation use in Arkansas River Valley as a result of
<br />initial development. Average for period 1911-1944.
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<br />Units 1,000 acre-feet
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<br />: Losses
<br />: : Reser-
<br />Gross:Spills (8): Trans- : voir
<br />Water: :portaticn Evapor-
<br />: ation(8):
<br />7.5 : 5.0
<br />: 2,0
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<br />Item
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<br />Frying Pan Diversion
<br />AT 'mnsas River Flood
<br />liurtz Ditch
<br />, ~:') "i cipa! \1~tez:
<br />::.,:'::.-:c,u=- - SUBTOT!i~-=- , ~
<br />
<br />(1)
<br />(2)
<br />(J)
<br />(4),
<br />
<br />69.2:
<br />,0;0: 30.0
<br />2.0:
<br />:, :.11.0,L _ -
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<br />~,,~.. C.,,~2,t,'lrn .flovr, from.. ' . :,'
<br />;-',-~-o.municip,a:U':at"e-,.=(5)':, -' C: 'T;O':
<br />~- -= -=Addhional' 'Nfi)i LaKes ow':' :'::"L
<br />---, imports (6) 14.9:
<br />Wi~ter flow Arkansas
<br />River (7)
<br />TOT,\L ARKANSAS VALLEY
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<br />1.4
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<br />:
<br />
<br />1.0
<br />3.0
<br />14.0
<br />
<br />12.5
<br />
<br />74.0
<br />]47.7
<br />3.,
<br />
<br />:
<br />
<br />18.8
<br />
<br />74.0
<br />154~
<br />5.2
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<br />:
<br />
<br />93.0: 16.0
<br />~19.1: 45.5
<br />tri butary streams
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<br />:
<br />
<br />5.9
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<br />Municipal Return flow in
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<br />(5)
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<br />(1) Divertible from Frying Pan Watershed and Hunter Creek.
<br />(2) Water at 'Pueblo Damsite, which 'would spill' from 'Caddoa ReserVoir. It occurs
<br />, 'largely in years of high runoff such as 1915, 1921, 1923, 1924, and 1942.
<br />(3) Additional useable water (for municipal purposes) ,due to more efficient use
<br />of the water yielded by Wurtz Project." '
<br />" (4) Wurtz Ditch importation ,(2,.000 AF)plus15,oOO AF, project water.
<br />(5) Estimated as 70 per cent of 15,000 acre-feet roject water diverted. 'Of these
<br />diversions, about 10,000 acre-feet are for,municipalities located along
<br />" Arkansas River and about "QOO acre-feet for Colorado Springs ami' Eads
<br />located on tributaries. ' ,', , '
<br />(6) Additional imports made possible by provision of additional storage capacity
<br />in ~vin Lakes Reservoir and replacement,storage in, Aspen Reservoir;
<br />(7) Estimated .anter fl~I'now being diverted for 'direct flow use which could be
<br />stored'in Pueblo Reservoir; by agreement, 'vathout depleting winter 'inflow
<br />to John Martin Reservoir.
<br />~8) Determined from Reservoir 'operation study, distribution bo Items based ,on
<br />operating assur.,ptioris.
<br />(9) The virgin water supply plus 'use and reuse of return fl<Nl. Except for re~
<br />regulated ~~nter fl~1 the head[ate supply is estimated at 1., times the
<br />_ _,_,__virg~r:.!,uP~~y~ ____"_ ,_' ,..__,_ _ u ___, _,_, ______' _ u__,
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