WSP00707

• File Number: 8027
• Description: Section D General Correspondence - Federal Agencies - BOR - Lower Missouri Region - Denver
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 3/21/1975
• Author: DOI-BOR
• Title: Annual Operating Plan - Niobrara - Lower Platte - and Kansas River Basins - 1974-1975
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Irrigation releases were started on June 25, and the active storage ca-
pacity was evacuated by July 12th. Reduced releases from the inactive
storage capacity were continued until July 24th. Storage water was
available for the city of Norton, throughout the year.

The irrigation district officials were advised early in the spring that
carryover storage in Norton Reservoir with dry-year inflows from Prairie
Dog Creek would be inadequate and furnish only an estimated farm delivery
of 3 inches of water per acre. For the fourth consecutive year, the
district used water from privately owned irrigation wells to supplement
the project water supply.

There were 3,828 acre-feet released from Norton Reservoir, of which the
Almena Irrigation District diverted 3,466 acre-feet from Prairie Dog
Creek. The water users pumped 5,119 acre-feet as a supplemental supply
from irrigation wells. This well water combined with available project
water provided a full irrigation supply. The average crop yields were
the highest of the 13 districts discussed in this report. The 5,207
acres that were irrigated in 1974 produced a gross crop value of
$2,078,270 ($399.13 per acre).

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The city of Norton used 852 acre-feet of municipal water during 1974.

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1975 OUTLOOK

The Alm€ha Irri;ation District expects to delive~ wate~ tc 5,200 acres if
an adequate water supply is available. If 1975 is a dry year without sig-
nificant ~Qn-off producing storms above Norton Reservoir, no active stor-
age will be available for irrigation uses. If normal inflow into the res-
ervoir and normal rainfall over the irrigated area occurs in 1975, a full
water supply ,can be furnished the irrigation district lands from Norton
storage and Prairie Dog Creek flows.

The city of Norton requirements are expected to be met in full in 1975.

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FRANKLIN, SUPERIOR-COURTLAND, AND COURTLAND UNITS, BOSTWICK DIVISION IN
NEBRASKA AND KANSAS

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GENERAL

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Harlan County Lake storage and Republican River Basin flows provide
a project water supply for 22,787 acres in the Bostwick Irrigation District
in Nebraska, and 12,771 acres in the Kansas-Bostwick Irrigation District
above Lovewell Reservoir and, together with White Rock Creek flows and
Lovewell Reservoir storage, furnish a water supply for 27,321 acres below
Lovewell Reservoir in the Kansas-Bostwick Irrigation District.

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