WSP07251

• File Number: 8143.600.10.A
• Description: John Martin Reservoir - Operation Studies
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 12/1/1981
• Author: Zorich/Spronk Assoc
• Title: Analysis of John Martin Reservoir Operation
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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C)

All inflows into John Martin Reservoir during a period
of winter storage shall accrue to conservation storage.
Conservation storage shall be released into the accounts
specified in Subsection II D beginning at the first
request for release after March 31 of account water by
a Colorado Water District 67 ditch or by Kansas or
beginning at 8:00 a.m. on April 7, whichever occurs
:first.
B. Summer Storage Season-
(1) When a runoff event occurs during the summer
storage season, such that inflows into John Martin
Reservoir are expected to exceed then existing
irrigation requirements of the ditches in ColoradO
Water District 67 by at least 1,000 acre-feet,
then the gates on John Martin Reservoir shall be
closed commencing conservation storage except
fOr releases of account water pursuant to Subsection
II E, herein.
(2) The ditches in ColoradO Water District 67 will be
removed from the Colorado priority system when the
sum of the flows of the Arkansas River at the
Las Animas gaging station and the Purgatoire River
at the Las Animas gaging station, exclusive of
separate deliveries of other water under Section
III, herein, indicates that conservation storage
will Occur.
(3) All inflows entering said reservoir during a period
of conservation storage in the summer storage

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