WSP05690

• File Number: 8407
• Description: Platte River Basin - River Basin General Publications
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 1/1/1978
• Author: Toups Corp
• Title: Water Resources Investigation in the South Platte River Valley - Reach Number 2
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Tetsel Ditch..............................
Sys tem Description.....................
Laterals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Reservoirs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Seepage Losses.........................
Operating Procedures........ . . . . . . . . . . .
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Johnson and Edwards Ditch Company.........
System Description.....................
Reservoirs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Operating Procedures...................
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Surface Water Rights......................
Irrigated Acreage.........................
GROUND WATER SySTEM...........................
Colorado Ground water Law.................
Alternate Point of Diversion...........
Implication of Drought to Ground
Water Irrigators.................
Ground Water Appropriators of the
South Platte (GASPI..............

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CHAPTER 4 - IMPACT OF DROUGHT..................... 4-1

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DEPENDABLE SOURCES OF WATER SUPPLy............
Streamflow Gaging Stations................
Point Source Discharges...................
Non-Point Sources.........................
Di tch/Reservoir Data......................
River Transport Time......................
System Management.........................
Water Budget Analyses.....................
DROUGHT IMPAIRMENT............................
System Flexibility........................
Ditches Impacted By Drought...............
Existing Mitigation plans.................
Riverside Canal........................
Weldon Valley Ditch............ ........
Tetsel Ditch...........................

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CH~PTER 5 - DIVERSION REQUIREMENTS AND
SYSTEM EFFICIENCy...............................

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DIVERSION REQUIREMENTS........................

SEEPAGE LOSSES................................
CONSUMPTIVE USE...............................

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