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<br />001993 <br /> <br />SYNOPSIS <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN -- KANSAS RIVER PROJECTS <br /> <br />1965 OPERATIONS -- 1966 OUTLOOK <br /> <br />GENERAL <br /> <br />This is the thirteenth Annual Operating Plan for the irrigation units <br />in the Kansas River Projects area. The Kansas River Projects is an <br />integral part of the Voissouri River Basin Project and provides for <br />the multipurpose benefits of irrigation, flood control, municipal <br />water supply, recreation, fish and wildlife, stream pollution abatement <br />and other uses. The dams and reservoirs constructed and operated by <br />the Bureau of Reclamation or Corps of Engineers which serve the irriga- <br />tion systems are within the scope of this report. Eleven of the reser- <br />voirs, fifteen canal systems and six diversion dams are now in operation <br />in the Kansas River Projects area. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />This report describes the operations and defines the responsibilities <br />of the Bureau of Reclamation and the Corps of Engineers in relation <br />to the Federally constructed and rehabilitated irrigation facilities <br />in the Republican, Solomon and Smoky Hill River drainage basins. The <br />irrigation operations are a responsibility of the Bureau of Reclamation, <br />while the flood control operations are a responsibility of the Corps <br />of Engineers. <br /> <br />The gross crop value of the irrigated project lands in 1965 was $14,070,301. <br />The flood damages prevented by reservoirs in the scope of this report during <br />1965 was $1,635,000. <br /> <br />Chapter I, the introduction, gives a description of the irrigation facil- <br />ities in the Kansas River Projects area. Chapter II summarizes the 1965 <br />operations, and Chapter III presents the plan of operation for 1966. <br /> <br />1965 OPERATIONS <br /> <br />The water supply was adequate to meet the 1965 irrigation requirements <br />of 116,694 acres irrigated in the Kansas River Projects. The annual <br />precipitation for 1965 was above normal throu~hout the Project area. <br />The diversion of irrigation water to canals in the Kansas River Projects <br />averaged 2.20 acre-feet per acre while the farm delivery rate averaged <br />1.18 acre-feet per acre. Storage surplus to Project needs in Swanson <br />and Harry Strunk Lakes and Norton and Bonny Reservoirs during late JUly, <br />August and September was made available as a supplemental water supply <br />to 1,079 acres in the Republican River Basin. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The conservation pools of Bonny, Enders, Harlan County, Lovewell, <br />Kirwin, Webster and Cedar Bluff Reservoirs and Swanson and Harry Strunk <br />Lakes filled in 1965. The conservation pools of Hugh Butler Lake and <br />Norton Reservoir did not fill. <br /> <br />iv <br />