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ARKANSAS BASIN ` Basinwide Conditions Assessment: I The SWSI value of-0.7 indicates that for December ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN the basin water supplies were slightly below normal. The 5 Sur-rocs Water Supply Index Hlitory Natural Resources Conservation Service reports January 1 4_ snowpack as 90% of normal. Storage in Turquoise, Twin W _ - Lakes, Pueblo, and John Martin reservoirs totaled 104% of d normal on December 31. Flow at the gaging station Arkansas 2- = : River near Portland averaged 552 cfs, as compared to the -- : : et - 1965-1993 December average of 394 cfs. 1 0 it,r--•,t- - 1kr 111 I Administrative/Management Concerns a _S- c % : ' The call on the Arkansas main stem since November o = ` 15 has been at 3-1-1910 per the Winter Water Storage -3 program. The total amount of water stored under the JANNE JANO7 JANIE JAN99 JAN90 JAN91 JAN93 JAN93 JAN94 JANOS program through December 31, 1994 was 67,612 acre-feet. - 1,40NTN/YEA I This compares to 68,132 acre-feet stored as of that date last year and an average of 64,535 acre-feet as of that date the past five years. __ • Public Use Impacts ARKANSAS RIVER NR. PORTLAND Well owners in the Arkansas basin who have not 150 FLOW BY WATER YEAR complied with the measurement rules may be facing A, injunctions to prevent them from using their wells. Orders '36 ` will be sent out in the next month to 6 weeks giving such well ;o owners 20 days to comply. There will be a workshop in La a r, 100 . Junta on January 27 which will provide opportunity to well owners to get help from Division personnel in researching ,g S° their wells and filling out paper work so as to be in ." 70 I 50 compliance with the rules. 5040 30 Oct Nov O4c Jan P.b irreh NINTH 0 vet(11043 o ORY(1971) A AVO X 1595 REPRESENTATIVE RESERVOIRS Al ANSAS RIVER BASIN 130 , 120- \/// 110- 100-A /\ U iJ \\ / \ $ 40-7 \ \\ \\ t 3°:n./.\\. John Mort In Pueblo 1 n.cIM Twin IJk.i ® AVp. 12131 Centsma ® 12/31/94 Contents 4