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<br />'1' ..,,, ') <br />c..,:,.;J. <br /> <br />Tab]e <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />Water available for irrigation use in Arkansas River Valley as a result of <br />initial development. Average for period 1911-1944. <br /> <br />Units 1,000 acre-feet <br /> <br />, <br />. <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />: <br /> <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 <br /> <br />Item <br /> <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 _ - <br /> <br />: <br /> <br />~.- - '"!- <br /> <br />t =-_ __ .:. =- _ . <br /> <br />.- . _- 0":- .- -=~-:..:_ <br /> <br />: <br /> <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 <br /> <br />'~'!.~ ~:--, .. <br /> <br />: ."- <br />--~- <br /> <br />. - <br />. .. <br /> <br />:----.-. <br /> <br />..,1;:.5..==:,,"- 6'0-7 "'=- .., n <br /> <br />:-- --z <br /> <br />--.-- <br />. <br /> <br />1.4 <br /> <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 <br /> <br />: <br /> <br />93.0: 16.0 <br />~19.1: 45.5 <br />tri butary streams <br /> <br />: <br /> <br />5.9 <br /> <br />Municipal Return flow in <br /> <br />(5) <br /> <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__, <br />