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". INTERIM REPORT OF JUNE 1947 SECTION I - ENGINEERING DATA , . Part 1 _ General This Seotion I of the Interim Report of June 1947 is devoted to desoriptions and disoussions of the Data oompiled by the Engineering Committee, whioh data are assembled in tentatively numbered tabulations hereto attaohed. Relative locations of plaoes herein mentioned and designated on the tabulations are shown by the attached general map of the Arkansas River basin in Colorado and western Kansas. Summaries and more detailed explanations of the Engineerin( Data appear in following parts of this ssotion of the Interim Report, under the headingsl Part 2 ~ Streamflow Data, Part 3 . Diversion Data, Part 4 ~ Reservoir Data, and Part 5 . Other Data. (Part 5 is in preparation). In goneral, the Engineering Data were compiled by months, and are tabulated in units of 1,000 acre feet. The attached tabulations show monthly quantities, sums by six-month summer seasons April to September inclusive, and by six-month winter seasons October to the following March inclusive, and sho" annual totals by twelve-month water-years October to the following September inclusive. Water_year accounting conforms with practices of federal and state reporting agencies, and was adopted to facilitate studies of assumed plans for operations of John Martin Reservoir. Monthly, seasonal and annual averages are shown on the attaohed tabula tions for the historic period seleoton fo,,- study. purposes, beginning October 1, 1907, when the stream gaging station was established on the Arkansas River at Holly, Colorado, near the Stateline between Colorado and Kansas, and ending September 30, 1942, shortly before John Martin Reservoir . o '. .1.