WSP05206

• File Number: 8111.600
• Description: ARCA Annual Reports
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 12/9/1952
• Author: ARCA
• Title: Fourth Annual Report Arkansas River Compact Administration for the Year 1952
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

reservoir gates and resulted in problems of administration of water rights
along the river. The experience was unsatisfactory to the extent that
water users withdrew their consent to the maintenance of the fish pool.
On August 28, 1952, the reservoir gates were opened and the fish pool
was discharged. The gates were left open and the reservoir remained
empty to October 31, 1952, the end of the period covered by this report.
Releases from the reservoir during the pcriod April 1 to May 31,
1952, amounted to 59,260 acre-feet. Statelinc flows during the corre~
sponding period amounted to 23,750 acre-feet. During the period
June I to October 31, 1952, discharge of the Arkansas River, reported
as outflow from John Martin Reservoir, was 94,270 acre~feet and State~
line flow was 28,680 acre.feet.
The inflow, outflow and storage at the John Martin Reservoir and
State line flow for the report~year are shown in graphs on Plate I.
Hydrologic dat..1. as listed below arc presented in Appendix B:
B-1. Daily discharges, Arkansas River near Pueblo, Colorado,
monthly totals corrected for transmauntain water.
Daily discharges, Ark:msas River at Las Animas, Colorado.
Daily Jis..::hargr5, Purgatoire River nc!l.T Las Animas, Colo-
rado.
Inflow into John Martin Reservoir.
Daily contents, John Martin Reservoir.
Outflow from John Martin Reservoir.
Daily disdl<{rgt:s, Arkansas Riva at the Colorado-Kansas
Statelinc,
Daily discharges, Arkansas River at Garden City, Kansas.
Demands by Colorado for water.
Demands by Kansas for water.
Stateline flows on days of Kansas Demand.
Diversions by ditches in Colorado Water Districts 14 and 17.
Diversions by ditches in Colorauo Water District 67.
Diversions by ditches in Kansas, Stateline to Garden City.

_ ~'-- g~gi.!'g Statio~_

Except for reconstruction of the station on the Purgatoire River
near Las Animas, all construction and repair work originally planned
for the Compact gaging stations has been completed. Materials have
been purchased for replacing this station and the work is scheduled to
be done during the winter of 1952.1953.
Prior to the beginning of the 1952 irrigation season radio stage
transmitters were installed at the station below John Martin Reservoir
and at the two Stateline stations. Because of occasional battery failures.
gage reports were not received with complete regularity but, in general,
operation was satisfactory. Power lines were constructed to all three
of the stations late in the rcport~year. It is expected that the use of
commercial power will not only preveIlt failures due to battery trouble,
but will also improve the signal strength and increase the efficiency of
the installations.

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