WSP04893

• File Number: 8143
• Description: John Martin Reservoir
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 9/27/1963
• Title: News Articles/Press Releases -- September 27 1963 - April 4 1985
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: News Article/Press Release

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IV ASHINGTON, D, C. (Special
to The News) - Representa-
tive Frank E, Evans (D-Cala,)
expresS€d !lis keen disappoint...
m~nt today over a prehminary
report made to him by Gen.
Jackson C. Graham, chief of
the Civil Works Dh'ision of
the U, S, Corps af Army En-
gineers to the effect that after
a lengthy study the Corps
would disapprove any change
in the present operating rules
governing John Martin Reser-
voir.
(The Corps' decision means
the water level will be main-
tained at the Conservation pool
level af 375,432 acre 'feet ac-
cording to Robert. Buchhagen,
resident engineer at the John.
Martin.
(Buchhagen told The Lamar-
Tri-State DJily News this mor-
ning that the conservation pool
was already attained and that
water being released repre-
sented that coming into the
reservoir from upstream.)
Gen. Graham, who made a
personal visit to Rep. Evans'
office, stated that the studies
showed that the Arkansas is a
most erratic stream and that
maintenance of any amount of
water above the present rules
might bring danger of flOOd'"

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which the reservoir was con-
structed to avoid.
The study by the Carps re-
ferred to January, February
and March of 1924 when there
was a heavy runoff and two
floods in 1942, one af which
brought 433,000 acre feet of
water and another, 370,000 acre
feeL
Gen. Graham said he appre-
ciated the deep interest of Ret>-
r8sentative Evans in this mat-
ter and pointed out that a re-
study of the river is now un-

derway which may result in
the development of sufficient
projects above the John Martin
Dam which might in turn brinfj
about a re-assessment of the
flood possibilities.
The study which has been un-
derway was prompted by a
resolution presented at various
meetings by George Heyher,
which requested that consider-
2.bte 'Ninter storage water be
retained in the reservoir rath-
er than being steadily released
and allowed to waste.

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