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<br />C\1 <br />C\1 <br />r-- <br /> <br />August and September. The average annual shortage was about 4, 000 acre- <br /> <br />feet, or a total of 33,700 acre-feet. <br /> <br />.s;avery Reservoir <br /> <br />As provided in the Bureau of Reclamation's study, Savery Reservoir <br /> <br />was used to supply demands on Savery Creek and, in all but one month, those <br /> <br />occurring on the Little Snake River in the project area, Water was bypassed <br /> <br />for fish according to the following schedule set out by the Bureau: <br /> <br />1, A minimum release of 900 acre-feet per month (15 cfs) will be <br /> <br />made for October through May whenever holdover storage on October 1 is <br /> <br />2,400 acre-feet or more. <br /> <br />2. Whenever holdover storage is less than 2,400 acre-feet on <br /> <br />October I, the monthly release will be 600 acre-feet (10 cfs). <br /> <br />3. A minimum release of 15 cfs (900 acre-feet per month) will <br /> <br />be maintained from June through September. <br /> <br />It is bf'dieved that the operation indicated on Table 19 would <br /> <br />provide a basis for modifying the above criteria. <br /> <br />Savery Reservoir was assumed to contain 10,800 acre-feet of <br /> <br />water at the end of 1952 as shown in the 13ureau of Reclamation studies. <br /> <br />Tarle 19 indic<ltes that Savery Roser'Joir would have been empty in 3 of the <br /> <br />8 years studied, and would have spilled in <1 of the years. The average <br /> <br />annual shortage was 1,400 acre-feet. In 1954 the reservoir came within <br /> <br />3,200 acre-feet of filling (6,300 acre-feet was released for fish during <br /> <br />October-April) and experienced a total shortage of 6,000 acre-feet. In <br /> <br />- 7 - <br />