WSP07140

• File Number: 8111.600
• Description: ARCA Annual Reports
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 12/13/1977
• Author: ARCA
• Title: Twenty-Ninth Annual Report Arkansas River Compact Administration for the Year 1977
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

Conservation <irriSation) and recreation, storage, acre-feet.. ..
Water surface at spillway crest, acres.........................
Water surface at top of conservation Pool, acres. .... .
Water surface at top of nood control pool, acres. ... ........ .
Drainage area, square miles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

.350,951
8,960
11 ,655
17,630
18,915

A Ill-mile of the historic Santa Fe Trail north of the reservoir has
been enclosed by a fence. An appropriate sign perpetuates this bit of
Americana for posterity.

7. Cooperative Studies and Activities:
laJ Article VIII G (1) 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 ad-
ministration 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 Marlin Reservoir and other related slnlctures. 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 the Engineers, United States
Anny, to cooperate and collaborate with the Administration and
with appropriate State officials in such determinations and
correlations of stream now and related data. Under the By-
Laws of the Administration, these cooperative studies and ~c-
tivities are assigned to the Engineering Commillee of .the
Administration.
(b) 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 Slates
Geological Survey has continued the operation of the compact
gaging stations and the analysis and compilation of the
hydrologic data presented in this report and used in the ad-
ministration of the Compact. The Corps of Engineers continued
to operate the conservation pool of John Martin Reservoir in
accordance with the terms of the Compact and the orders of the
Administration.

8. Water Supply, Reservoir Operation, and HydrologiC Data
During Compact Year 1976, the Amity Mutual Irrigation Company
developed a proposal to store its adjudicated Great Plains Reservoir
slorage rights in John Marlin Reservoir. This proposal was presented
to the Compact Commission and was enthusiastically adopted by the
Commission after a few minor alterations. The final agreement
allowed the Amity to store up to 15,000 acre feel of its Great Plains
storage rights in John Martin during the 1977 Compact Year heginning
November I, 1976. Under terms of the agreement, the Amity storage
waler was defined as the amount of water actually delivered 10 John
Martin Reservoir by the Amity minus evaporation tosses. The Amity
water could only be delivered after the compact water in the con-
servation pool was evacuated and was apportioned 90% to Colorado
and 10% to Kansas. Appendices B-16 and B-17 record demands by
Kansas and Colorado for Amity storage water. The Amity storage

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