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<br />001933 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />1964 Plan <br /> <br />reservoir pool is lowered to elevation 3670.0 (37,390 acre-feet) <br />by the end of March and maintained there or below throughout the <br />spring and summer months except for flood control operation. During <br />the dry years, the normal reservoir losses will lower the pool <br />another two to three feet by September. During other years, it will <br />be necessary to make special releases during September or early October <br />to draw the pool level down another foot to elevation 3669.00 <br />(35,500 acre-feet). On the basis of later evaluations of storage <br />in the Republican River Basin Reservoirs and in the interest of <br />increasing carryover storage to offset storage depletions for riprap <br />repair in the Harlan County conservation pool, it may be necessary <br />to defer the above drawdown plans. <br /> <br />Swanson Lake <br /> <br />Irrigation demands on storage will be made by irrigators under the <br />Meeker-Driftwood and Bartley systems for 20,100 acres. The carry- <br />over storage and available inflow will be more than adequate to <br />meet this demand. The maximum expected drawdown under "reasonable <br />minimum" conditions will be about 12 feet (53,360 acre-feet) below <br />the top of the conservation pool. After the conservation storage <br />pool is filled, controlled spills will be made as inflow and downstream <br />conditions dictate. Painting of the spillway gates is scheduled for <br />this fall. Under 11 reasonable minimum" conditions, this would require <br />no special releases. If "most probable" or "reasonable mnximum" <br />conditions occur, special releases would have to be made to expose <br />the gate surfaces. It may however become advisable to reschedule <br />this work until the fall of 1965 due to the 11 feet (128,530 acre- <br />feet) of the conservation storage pool at Harlan County being unusable <br />while rip rap repairs are being made, <br /> <br />Enders Reservoir <br /> <br />Enders Reservoir under "reasonable minimumll conditions will not <br />fill by about 0.60 feet (1,000 acre-feet). The water aupply will be <br />adequate to meet the demands for 19,300 acrea expected to be irrigated <br />by the Frenchman Valley and H&RW Irrigation Districts. <br /> <br />Hugh Butler Lake <br /> <br />Hugh Butler conservation storage pool is not expected to fill under <br />"reasonable minimum" or "most probable" conditions. Inflow and <br />conservation atorage will be more than adequate to meet senior <br />appropriations and demands of 2,600 acres expected to be irrigated <br />by the Red Willow Canal system, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />12 <br />