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<br />Of'll93! <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />released to the Smoky Hill River for the City of Russell, Kansas, <br />under the terms of the Municipal Water Supply Contract. The Kansas <br />Department of Water Resources administered the use of water during this <br />period. The Fish Hatchery operated by the United States Bureau of Sport <br />Fisheries and Wildlife diverted 2,315 acre-feet with 1,338 acre-feet <br />returning to the Smoky Hill River below Cedar Bluff Dam. Minimum <br />conservation storage was reached on September 20 at elevation 2141.74 <br />(169,990 acre-feet), 2.3 feet (15,100 acre-feet) below the top of the <br />conservation pool. <br /> <br />IRRIGATION OPERATIONS <br /> <br />A total of 300,275 acre-feet of water was diverted into fifteen canal <br />systems for irrigation of 115,640 acres of land in the Kansas River <br />,Projects. This is 79% of the area that had service available in 1963, <br />and 71% of the ultimate area planned. Acreage irrigated, diversion and <br />farm delivery data for each of the irrigation districts are shown in <br />the following table: <br /> <br />Irrigation Acres Acre-feet Diversion Rate Farm de 11 very <br />District Irrigated Diverted Acre-feet/acre Acre-feet/acre <br />Frenchman Valley 8,627 26,633 3.09 (no records) <br />H&RW 10,302 23,721 2.30 1.58 <br />Frenchman-Cambridge 35,062 86,091 2.46 1.67 <br />Bostwick in Nebraska 20,039 54,475 1/ 2.72 1.32 <br />Kansas-Bostwick 25,117 67,437 2.68 1.47 <br />Kirwin 8,512 19,702 2.31 1.48 <br />Webster 5,755 15,070 2.62 1.53 <br />Cedar Bluff 2,226 7,146 -.ld!:. 1.11 <br />Total-Kansas River <br />Projects 115,640 300,275 2.60 <br /> <br />1/ Does not include minor diversions made for ponding tests on Courtland <br />Canal in November 1964. <br /> <br />Due to the excessive accumulation of sediment above the Culbertson Diversion <br />Dam special releases were made at Enders Dam to sluice this sediment into <br />the Frenchman Creek channel below the diversion dam. This operation was <br />necessary four times during the 1963 irrigation season, requiring 25 acre- <br />feet of conservation storage for each sluicing operation. <br /> <br />Water diverted to the Hale Ditch totaled 2,924 acre-feet of which 70 <br />acre-feet were sold under Warren Act Contract. <br /> <br />The acres irrigated in 1963 and estimated to be irrigated in 1964 are <br />compared to the planned and service available acreage on table 6. A graphic <br />representation of development by irrigation districts is presented in <br />Exhibit9 12 through 20. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />9 <br />