WSP06585

• File Number: 8112.600
• Description: Arkansas White Red Basins Interagency Committee - AWRBIAC -- Reports
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 1/30/1951
• Title: Report of the Hydrologic Subcommittee on Water Availability and Quality in the Arkansas-White-Red Basins
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Red River nepr Terra.l, Oklllhona
LOO'-ltion._ Site of Vgfn[! sbtion, lat. 3306:5', long. 97056', 1.2 miles aouth of Terral and 3.2 miles downl!Jtream from
L1ttle Wiohita River.

DraiI:Elge area._ 28,727 llqu'l.re mile..

Records avalle.ble.- At aite, April 1938 to Deoember 1949, in reports of Geolor;ical Survey.

Est1nl'l.tslle_ January to March 1938; dil'loharge oomputed from records for maTby gl'lgfl8 on b81!1h of' relation of flowlI
obsorved Ajril 1938 to June 1942. COl"r81~tion '\1[l.1I derIved for SUJIL of flows for Little 'I1chita Rl~r neer Aroher
City, Thxas, plUll Caddo Creek Dear Ardmore, Oklahoma, in respeot to i1"" from unjgl~d area (I!.hout 2,700 square rd.lee).
the differenoo in naws for Red R1'1;er nOl'lr Colbert, Okl9.hoDB, end to, sum. of fiowl!I ob68rved at Red River near
Terral, OklahOJDl!., Bnd Wl!shita River near Durwood. OklahoDJ!!l.

RmarLlI.- Ulnar regulf\tion by LAke Kemp (oe.pe.oity. 438.000 !lore-feet) on Wiohita River e.nd Leke l1okapoo (osf8oity.
106.000 sore-feet) on North Fork Little Wiohita River. Se'Wnty-l:hre9 peroent of draiDl!(.e area above g8j1'e i8 in
T6~1!I. which oontribute:'! sbout 54 peroent of the runo!'t obllerved at Terral. OkltlhCXllll. Twenty-six peroent of the
drainage arn a.JO-.e gsge ie in OklRhoJlll. whioh oor-tributee sbout 46 percent of rUDoff observed I!lt Terrel (runoff
reletion.:!l obtained from runoff Imp of drainage I!lrtla bAsed on ell records 1938-49). The oIle peroent of drainage area
in Nsw lIexico ll'Iek:ee no oontribution to flOlt' at t!UlI IIite.

Mnnthly and ealAndar_yellr dillchsrce, in thousllnds. of aore_feet

YEAR I "AN, FEB. MAR. APR. MAY JUNE JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. I DEC. ANNUAL.
1938 I 48.9 1------.~79 238 132.9 649.7 495~5 65.4 42.7 22.~ 10'~----""'" ~QQ!j ,
1939 [ 85.0 10.4 51.6 28.2 62.3 233.1 64.1 86.1 9.5 24.1 6.1 6.6 666.9
19'" ..7 10.a '.1 45.B1 135.3 102.9 14.5.2 13'7.6' 69.1' 7.3' 160.4. 69.2 881.4
1941 :50.5 176.3 35.5 161.3 1 744 2 234 247.2 151.5 148.6 1 407 548.7 146.0 7030
1942 78.3 5B.8 63.2 982.8 232.0 19'6.9 33.9 95.8 206.9 406.71 186.3 91.6 2.821
1943 74.1 35.4 62,1 236.6 659.21 247.4 55.5 14.0 1l.lc_l0.~ 7.8 21 6 1 426
1944 34.1 41.4 11.6 65.6 ' 43.;-~;36.0 57.9 36.0 50.41 154 46" 47.4 884 2
1946 61.3 73.1 475.7 435.5 89.2 190.8 262.7 76.6 256.1 389.9 25.4 24.0 2 359
1946 66,7 71.2 36.2 27.2. ---'!~_!.~J-_145.8 58.9 16.2 152.7 148;8 77.2 196.1 1.071
1947 28.4: 16.5 19.1 363.9 1.376 ~,_;lQ~'3 54.4 17.1 <<..1 ~9_ 25.S 87.5 2 330
1948 19.3 58.0 140.2 47.8 128.5 206.9 85.5 39.7 7.6 10.S 11.9 8.5 764.1
1949 24.5 192.0 47.8 23.8 495.~r--~49.7 36.6 21~. +-llQ.4 73.3 23.8 33.6 1 432
~ean 46.2 85.2 103 21~ 474 _l 412 97.2 60.2 87.8 222 94.4 60.6 1 9f!~__
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279 475.7 ~ ~'12 234 262 7' '"1.51 256.1 ' 06,' 7...0.~
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