WSP06549

• File Number: 8111.600
• Description: ARCA Annual Reports
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 1/1/1985
• Author: ARCA
• Title: Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Arkansas River Compact Administration for the Year 1985
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

of the administration" and conducive to arbitration under Article
VIIHD) of the Compact.
On March 26, 1985, the Colorado representatives notified the
Administration of possible violations of various provisions of the
Arkansas River Compact by the State of Kansas and Kansas water users.
At a special meeting of the Administration held on March 28, 1985, in
Garden City, Kansas, Colorado voted against resolutions proposed by
Kansas that certain issues related to the operation of Trinidad and Pueblo
reservoirs were subject to and appropriate for arbitration pursuant to
Article VIIHD).
The Administration then adopted a resolution authorizing an
investigation pursuant to Article VIIH HJ of the Compact of allegations of
violations of provisions of the Compact in Colorado and Kansas. The
resolution established a committee consisting of the Director of the
Colorado Water Conservation Board, J, William McDonald, or his
designee and the Chief Engineer of Kansas, David L. Pope, or his
designee to conduct the investigation.
At a meeting on June 3, 1985, the Investigating Committee agreed to
compile streamflow data and to prepare a series of mass curves as a first
step in the investigation.
At a meeting of the committee on July 12. 1985, the Investigating
Committee could not agree on the conclusions to be drawn from the mass
curves and il was agreed that Mr. McDonald and Mr. Pope would each
prepare a written report analyzing the mass curves. The reports were
exchanged on September 6, 1985.
At a special meeting of lhe Administration on July 12, 1985, at the
request of the Kansas representatives, the Administration agreed to
amend the March 28, 1985, resolution to include an investigation of
whether Colorado had complied with the provisions of Article V(F) of the
Compact.
On September 17, 1985, the investigating committee mel in Santa Fe,
New Mexico, to discuss the reports analyzing the mass curves. At the
meeting, Mr. McDonald and Mr. Pope were unable to agree on
conclusions to be drawn from the mass curves and agreed to submit their
reports to the Administration along with a separate statement explaining
the reasons for the differences in their conclusions.
At a special meeting of the Administration on October 8, 1985, the
Administration considered the separate reports and statements
submitted by Mr. McDonald and Mr. Pope and adopled the following
resolution regarding the status of the investigation:
"WHEREAS, pursuant to the Resolution of March 28th, 1985 an
Investigating Committee was constituted to investigate alleged violations
of the Arkansas River Compact: and
WHEREAS, in conjunction with the existing data and engineering
studies the Committee agreed to prepare a series of single and double
mass diagrams to analyze primarily the regimen of the Arkansas River;
and
WHEREAS, the Colorado representative to the Invesligating
Committee has concluded that further investigation of whether lhe
waters of the Arkansas River have been or are being materially depleted
in usable quantity or availability should first examine: (1) reduced
diversions by ditches in Colorado Water District 67; (2) the opera ling

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