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<br />. <br /> <br />~ /II, c", ,~, <br />l"j (; :,1 <br /> <br />Kansas asked that in addition, the model should be expanded to not only evaluate the impacts to <br /> <br />John Martin Reservoir, but also on useable Stateline flows. <br /> <br />At the November 21, 1995 scoping meeting, it was agreed, after considerable discussion, <br />- - <br /> <br />that the review should cover the 10 year period Colorado. Water Years 1985 through 1994 since <br />. .. ' ~ <br /> <br />the previous review covered the period 1979 through 1984. Reclamation declined Kansas request <br /> <br />4c~~ <br />D \{') '--I~ <br />F~eIl... <br /> <br />to evaluate Project operation effects on useable Stateline flows as the Proiect had no control of <br /> <br />flows at the State line. Reclamation did not commit to an identical simulated model st}Jdy .)}~ <br /> <br />compared to the pre-Project planning model as was done for the previous review. Reclamation ~~ <br />~) ~5\",,,t;t <br />selected this method for the previous review because there were only five years of Project t'1AM <br /> <br />operations data with nearly full irrigation for only two of those five years. The Project has been <br />I <br /> <br />operated continuously with full irrigation for the review period 1985 through 1994 and Project <br /> <br />. op'erations cyclic patterns of storage, releases and retJlrn flows have now dp.vp.lopp.d and <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />stabiliz.ed. At the scoping meeting Reclamation proposed that a Project area depletion analysi~ < <br /> <br />compared to historic depletions of the Project area may be more appropriate based on the <br /> <br />~ssumption that if the Pmiect area depletions do not change. then there were no..downstreaIIL <br /> <br />effects ofProj""t o-PPr.a.tions. There was no agreement at the meeting that Reclamation's <br />.--. It' <br /> <br />proposed depletion analysis was appropriate for the review. Reclamation proposed to review <br /> <br />Project operations data and Project development documents to detennine if a depletion analysis <br /> <br />was sufficient to meet the requirements of the reviews. <br /> <br />The Decree for changing the place of storage under the Model right from Model Reservoir <br /> <br />to Trinidad Reservoir provides for the effects of this change in place of storage to be monitored <br /> <br />by placing a water gauging station at a point in the Purgatoire River below the Project area <br /> <br />10 <br /> <br />or6'K <br />~" <br />~~" <br />~.c;:t <br />~~l <br /> <br />, ~ V'\OJ2..C..., <br /> <br />