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

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north wing dam, main dam, and southwing dam. The overall length of the
structure is 2.6 miles. Detailed project data are shown below.

DAM
Total length, feet........................................ ..............................
Maximum height above streambed, feeL..... .............................
Width of roadway on dam, feeL......... ........................................

13.945
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SPILLWAY
Total length, including piers, feet
Crest gates, 30' x 64'......
Discharge capacity I cubic feet per second

............................ 1,174
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... ................... ..639.200

OUTLET WORKS
Sluicing conduits, 6' x 7'''''..........
Regulating conduits. 4' x 4'..

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RESERVOIR
Capacity, acre-feeL....... .................. ............. .......... ..... .. ....621,326
Flood conlrol storage, acre-feeL........... . .......270,375
Conservation /irrigation) and recreation,
storage, acre-feeL. .............. ....... ........... .....350.951
Water surface at spillway crest, acres............................ 8,960
Water surface at top of conservation pool, acres ............. .. 11,655
Water surface at top of flood control pool. acres................ ........... 17,630
Drainage areas, square miles..... .... n......... ........."...... ..,."............. 18,915
A lh-mile of the historic Santa Fe Trail north of the reservoir has been
enclosed by a fence. An appropriate sign marks this important site.

7. Cooperative Studies and Activities:
(a) Article VIII G (I) of Arkansas River Compact requires the
Administration to cooperate with the Chief Official of each of the
states of Colorado and Kansas charged with the administration of
water rights in their respective States, and with the Federal
agencies in systematically determining and correlating the facts
pertaining to the flow and diversion of the water of the Arkansas
River and to the operation and siltation of John Martin Reservoir
and other related structures. Article VIII G (2) requests the
Director of the United States Geological Survey. the
Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, and
the Chief of Engineers. United States Army. to cooperate and
collaborate with the Administration and with appropriate State
officials in such determinations and correlations of streamflow
and related data. Under the By-Laws of the Administration. these
cooperative studies and activities are assigned to the Engineering
Committee of the Administration.
(bl During the year covered by this report the Administration has
received excellent cooperation from all agencies referred to in the
foregoing provisions of the Compact. The United States
Geological Survey has continued the operation of the compact
gaging stations and the analysis of and compilation of the

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