WSP03745

• File Number: 8111.815
• Description: Arkansas River Compact Administration
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 4/1/1990
• Author: UCACOE
• Title: Drought Contingency Plan - John Martin and Trinidad Lake - Appendix D
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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b. Recreation. An incidental use of project storage is recreation.
Recreation uses include boating, fishing, and camping. In general the recreation
interests like stable lake levels at or near the top of the conservation pool.
If the pool level drops too low ,boat access points may not be accessible and
water quality will deteriorate.. This is viewed as an erosion of the quality of
the recreation experience and is detrimental to visitation and recreation use.
Total recreational visitation figures for each lake are provided in Table 4-1.

c. Fish and Wildlife. Another incidental use of project storage is fish
and wildlife enhancement. Low lake levels deteriorate water quality to the point
that they will not sustain fisheries or wildlife.

d. Hvdropower. None of the Arkansas River Basin projects described in
this document are equipped to generate hydroelectric power.

e. Water Supp1 v. The current water supply usage to meet munic ipa1,
industrial, and domestic needs in the Arkansas River Basin are unknown. While
water supply is a project purpose at Pueblo Reservoir it is not an authorized
project purpose at either John Martin Reservoir or Trinidad Lake. Users, such
as communities or industries, which would utilize an appreciable amount of
storage are required to have a storage contract with the USBR, whereby they
purchase water from the reservoir. Water supply contracts are issued through
the USBR. The primary source for obtaining inventories of water users is the
USBR.

5-02. Potential Proiect Water Uses and Users.

a. Uses. Potential uses of future, additional. or excess project water
are similar to current uses. It is anticipated that during the onset of a
drought the demand for water will increase. As water supply sources, susceptible
to drought, fail there will be an increase in users drawing from neighboring
systems.

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b. Users. Potential users are water consumers currently not drawing from
the reservoirs or the river downstream and which currently have the capability
to use project releases either directly or indirectly. Potential users could
be irrigators, industries, or municipalities capable of extending intake pipes
into the reservoirs or river to utilize untreated project releases. Additional
potential users could tap into existing water lines or haul water out of the
river or reservoirs by truck. Regardless of the logistics of supplying water
for potential drought problems, the ability to meet these requirements are
confined to availability or surplus water. Potential users would have to make
arrangements with those willing to sell water.

5-03. Available storage surplus to current needs. There is no surplus
conservation storage identified at either John Martin Reservoir or Trinidad Lake..
The recreation pools at John Martin Reservoir and Trinidad Lake may be available
for emergency use during a drought. Any additional water that might be used
during a drought would have to come from above John Martin Reservoir on the
Arkansas River mainstem.

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