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<br />"f'!~196 <br />. , .~ _.J .__ <br /> <br />-7 - <br /> <br />In Di$trict One several small floods from Dijou and \.,rildcat Creek, <br />totaling an estimated 121,000 acre-feet would, if averaged over the twenty <br />years, added about 2.0% to the Balzac discharge. <br />In District Sixty-four several small flows in Pawnee, Lewis, <br />Lodgepole and other creeks, if they reached the river and were likewise <br />averaged, would have increased the JUlesburg flow perhaps 1.5%. <br />These flash flows were often unusable. <br /> <br />The Kersey flows varied from a ~um of 1,425,900 acre-feet in <br />1942 to a minimum of 159,900 in 1954 in the twenty year period, a spread <br /> <br />of c.lmcst 9 to 1. <br /> <br />The ~um at Kersey was 350% of average and the minimum 33%. <br />While the Kersey flow averaged 509,000 acre-feet for the past 20 years, the <br />mean for the preceeding 10 years (the 1930's) was only 329,000 acre-feet. <br />The following table summarizes the flows at the three stations. <br /> <br />Average <br /> <br />MaximlUll <br /> <br />Hinimum <br /> <br /> '" <br />!;ersey 509,200 I 1,425,700 (1942) 159,000 (195~) <br /> , <br />- <br />llalzllC 257,700 1,030,000 (1942) 59,950 (19S:4 );' <br />- <br />Julesburg 318,700 1,092,000 (1942) 55,400 (195,6)1 <br /> <br />'fhere were seven years above the average at Kersey and thirteen belo:w. " <br /> <br />The four shot'\; years of 1953-1956 averaged only 198,000 acre-feet. <br /> <br /> <br />The table below is a summary of the flows at the three stations in <br /> <br />both t1dj.rect use" and "storage" seasons. <br /> <br /> Ker""v 1. Balzac ~ Julesburl!: !II: .' <br />~pril 1 to Oct. 1 328,000 64% 205,000 80% 181,000 57%: <br />!oct. 1 to APril 1 181,000 36% 52,000 20% 138,000 43%1 <br />" <br /> 509,000 257,000 319,000 <br /> , <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />~: <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />;/Jf!r;., <br />