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Y ARKANSAS BASIN Basinwide Conditions Assessment: The SWSI value of-0.7 indicates that for January the ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN basin water supplies were near normal. The Soil Conservation 5 Surface Water Supply Index History Service reports January 31 snowpack at 80% of normal. . Storage in Turquoise, Twin Lakes, Pueblo, and John Martin w 3 reservoirs totaled 111%of normal on January 31. Flow at the 3 ' 1 gaging station Arkansas River near Portland averaged 447 cfs, - �tY _- , I as compared to the 1965-1993 January average of 354 cfs. 1 : ; ; r I, - 0 r i '� I. �I '.., Administrative/Management Concerns Lx _,_ 1 0' I As of January 31, 1994 the total amount of water r I stored in the Winter Water Storage Program was 107,783 acre-feet, compared to 106,374 acre-feet stored last year. The 3- call on the river during the program stays at 3/1/1910. -4 1 • JAN85 JAN86 JANB7 JAN88 JAN89 JAN90 JAN91 JAN92 JAN93 JAN94 MONTW YEAR Public Use Impacts Basin administrators are currently developing a database identifying all wells producing over 100 gpm along the mainstem of the Arkansas River below Pueblo. Owners of the wells are being identified, and orders will be sent out ARKANSAS RIVER NR. PORTLAND requiring the installation of a flow meter on any well that is 150 FLOW BY WATER YEAR not enrolled in the Colorado Water Protective and 140 4. Development Association (CWPDA) or the Lower Arkansas 130 Water Management Association (LAWMA). Owners of wells s � Y iia not in an association will have to report the pumping from 100 '" their wells annually to the Division of Water Resources. o b 90 CWPDA and LAWMA are currently testing all member wells W t B0 �7�' ' and will be submitting quantifications of the amounts pumped '° / /'�� 60 by those wells. The individual well owner must either install 50 ,--- a meter and report well pumping directly to the Division, or 40 �� join an association that will report the pumping for them. 30 �/ The projected date for sending out these orders is April 15, 20 R Oct NOV OeC Jan Feb Mai ch 1994. The purpose for requiring the annual reporting of well MONTH pumping is so that the depletions to the Arkansas River which D w�"984, 9 °Rr(19", A AIR r 1994 are caused by well use can be more accurately determined. REPRESENTATIVE RESERVOIRS ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN 150 140— 130— // \\ 120— II90— a sr J//f\� / //�\�� \ g AO n \\ 1 j� / \� // 20 30 y�� \ \ John.rt In P.pb I Turquoise Twln Lakes Lj AVq 1/31 Contents I` \j 1/31/94 Contents 4