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GG 3'.)3 " 1975 OUTLOOK The fall and early winter inflows into Enders Reservoir were about mid'Nay between normal and dry-year forecasts. If dry-year conditions prevail, the project water supply is €xpecced to be inadequate to irrigate 9,000 acres in Frenchman Valley Irrigation District and 11,000 acres in H & RW Irrigation District. As much as 3,400 acre-feet are expected to be con- served by pumping seepage into the Enders Reservoir. ....... The control and stabilization program of the Frenchman River channel will b~ contim.led in 1975. The State of Nebraska has completed the relocation of U, S. Highway 6 in the Frenchman Valley involving several channel chan- ges. These changes have resulted in a larger than normal accumulation of silt in the desilting basin at the Culbertson Diversion Dam. - '.:..1 MEEKER-DRIfTl'iOOD, RED IHLLOW, AND CAHBRIDGE UNITS, FRENC~II1AN-CMlBRIDGE DIVISION IN NEBRASKA . ':'-. GENERAL o,(L.> .. ".",. ." The nornlal operation of Trenton Dam and Swanson Lake, Red Willow Dam and Hugh Butler Lake, and Medicine Creek Dam and Harry Strunk Lake during the spring months, with a slowly rising or stable pool level, enhances optimum spawning of northern and Ylalleye pi.ke. These lakes provide excellent op- portunities for fishing, water spo~ts, and recreation. The seepage below Red 'wi.i.l.ow and Meciicine Creek Dams proviaes excelleut fishing. ......,. Service is p~-ovided for Frenclunan-Cambridge Irrigation District by r-teeJ:::er- Driftwood Canal to 16,476 acres; Red Willow Canal to 4,932 acres; Bartley Can~l to 6,539 acres; and Cambridge Canal to 17,053 acres. The water sup- ply for these larlds is provided by storage in Swanson, Hugh Butler, c_nd Harry Strunk Lakes, and flows of the Republican River and Red Willow and Medicine Creeks. I I . .....,1 ...... 1974 SUMHARY '..' .. The precipitation at Trenton Darn was 89 ~ercent of normal and the inflow to Swanson Lake was between the dry and normal year forecasts. The con- servation capacity \..,ra5 full at thp- beginning of the irri.gation season in 1974. This storage and the 1974 inflows furnished full water s~pplics to project lands served by the Meeker-Driftwood and Bartley Canal systems. The Frenchman-Cambridge Irrigation District diverted 39,716 acre-feet in- to Meeker-Driftwood Canal to irrigate 16,156 acres, and 14,708 acre-feet into Bartley Canal for 6,285 acres. "::.:.." ;..- ,.'-:, ". ,':: ~ The precipitation at Red Willow Dam was 76 percent of normal while the inflow into Hugh Butler Lake was equal to normal-year forecasts. The water supply was more than adequate for Red willow Canal diversions. The dis- trict diverted 11,459 acre-feet for the irrigation of 4,782 acres served I I 15