WSP01177

• File Number: 8111.600
• Description: ARCA Annual Reports
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 1/1/1987
• Author: ARCA
• Title: Thirty-Ninth Annual Report Arkansas River Compact Administration for the Year 1987
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

Winter Storage officially ended at 2400 hour on March 31, 1987, with a
total inflow to the reservoir of 151.028.38 aJ. Of this total inOow 14.058.38
a.f. was either called for by Colorado orspilled from the reservoir during the
later part of March and 10,3% aJ. was lost due to evaporation. This left a
balance of 126,574.00 a.f. InOowwasdistributed to the accounts pursuant to
the operating plan as follows;

TABLE 3
JOHN MARTIN RESERVOIR
WINTER INFLOW DISTRIBUTION
(aJ.)

Winter Compact Water
C>ther Winter Water
*Amity Canal, Article III:
*Ft. Lyon Canal Article III:
.Las Animas Consolidated,
Article III:
*C>ther Winter Water Evaporation:
Amity Alternate Storage Decree
Total Inflow
*Transferred to Article III accounts shown at
2400 hours March 15, 1987.

98.551.39
35,586.00

18,676.15
8,825.42

7,492.15
592.28

16,890.99
151,028.38

The conservation pool limit. elevation 3851.85 feet and contents of
352,882 aJ.. was reached on March 25, 1987. Releases of account water, as
specified by the spill criteria in papagraph JIG of the operating plan, then
commenced and continued until May 5.1987. On May 5.1987. streamOow
began to exceed the established safe channel capacity of 3.000 cfs below John
Martin. In order to monitor the amount of water stored under flood control
operations. a temporary Oood pool account was created. Water held in the
Oood pool account was water which could be neither released into a compact
storage account nor released through the dam without exceeding the safe
channel capacity downstream. Storage in and releases from the temporary
Oood pool account continued until flood control operations ceased on July
7. 1987 at 1400 hours. At the close of flood control operations the flood pool
account was empty.
During flood control operations. all Article III water and most of the
Agreement account water was spilled from John Martin Reservoir. A total
of 410.447 .59 aJ. spilled from John Martin Reservoir during flood control
operations. At 0800 hours on May 31,1987 a pool elevation record of3856.8
feet was reached. this represented 416,861 aJ. of stored water.
The operation of the flood pool account was as follows during compact
year 1987:

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