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r <br /> ARKANSAS BASIN <br /> Basinwide Conditions Assessment: <br /> The SWSI value of+2.9 indicates that for August the ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN <br /> Surface Water Supply Index History <br /> basin water supplies were above normal. Storage in 5 <br /> Turquoise, Twin Lakes, Pueblo, and John Martin reservoirs 4 <br /> totaled 113% of normal on August 31. Flow at the gaging W 3 4. ' ' ' <br /> station Arkansas River near Portland averaged 623 cfs, as = <br /> compared Augustaverage of 1,030 cfs. The2 —? w <br /> g <br /> National Weather Service reports August precipitation as 1 �"; • <br /> 149% of normal. i 0 "" II <br /> i.. 'ii i li 1: ''' ' v <br /> -1 I A v <br /> Administrative/Management Concerns . <br /> During August the Arkansas main stem call fluctuated o <br /> between the Amity Canal's right of 2/21/1887 and the Ft. _3 <br /> Lyon Canal's second right of 3/1/1887. On August 11 there .r <br /> JAN84 JAN85 JAN86 JAN87 JAN88 JAN88 JAN80 JAN01 JAN22 JAN33 <br /> was a period of 12/3/1884 call for the Catlin and MSMH/YEAR <br /> Consolidated ditches. <br /> public Use Impacts: <br /> Enforcement of the Rules and Regulations governing <br /> ground water withdrawals in the Arkansas basin has ARKANSAS RIVER NR. PORTLAND <br /> continued. As of mid-September orders had been issued on 40 1 FLOW BY WATER YEAR <br /> individual wells to either restrict pumping to Monday, 0.9 <br /> Tuesday, and Wednesday, or to cease all pumping. Of these 0.8 <br /> 40 wells, 22 have joined either the Colorado Water Protective 1 0.7 <br /> and Development Association or the Lower Arkansas Water h 0 0 <br /> Management Association,which allows them to pump at any •E 0. <br /> time. Another well owner with 6 wells was convinced without :v 07------4 <br /> an order to join CWPDA. One well owner who refused to <br /> comply with an order was taken to court where the Division I0.3 <br /> obtained a temporary restraining order, the next step in this 0.2 <br /> action will be to obtain a permanent injunction. Due to this <br /> year's ample supplies of ditch water and reduced need for 0 <br /> Oct Noe Dee Jan Feb Morch April May June Jufy Aug Sept <br /> supplemental ground water pumping, enforcement actions MONTH <br /> D WET(1884) a OW(1177) E AVG X 1193 <br /> have not been as great as expected. <br /> REPRESENTATIVE RESERVOIRS <br /> ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN <br /> 120 <br /> 100- / <br /> 100- l// \ <br /> 80- <br /> ., �/ \ \ <br /> $ <br /> 80- <br /> i''' 70-10 <br /> , \ <br /> Cf 0,-, SO J <br /> i40 <br /> 20-./\ <br /> D <br /> John Martin Pueblo Turquoise Twin Lek. <br /> ® AVg. 8/71 Contents ® 8/3V13 Contents <br /> 4 <br />