RRCA Kansas data for 2012

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Data for the April 15, 2013 exchange were posted the same day; final groundwater model data were posted August 29, 2013, with a correction on August 30, 2013.

Recordings from the annual meeting:

RRCA accounting files

Kansas annual reporting

1. Surface water diversions and irrigated acres - Source data are in RRCS_Overlap_Groups_2012_prelim.zip (preliminary version, Apr 15, 2013) and in RRCS_Overlap_Groups_2012_final.zip (final version, Aug 29, 2013; also listed under “model input files”).

2. Groundwater pumping and irrigated acreage - Groundwater data required by the Settlement is included in the same as above. Sheet crops, with a pivot table summarizing crops by county, is imported into the following file:

3. Climate information - KSNE2012_precip_temp_data.xlsxDaily climate data used to calculate Crop Irrigation Requirements; should be publicly available. See documentation sheet for description of filling used for missing data, which fall almost exclusively outside the irrigation season. (Apr 15, 2013)

4. Crop Irrigation Requirements: Summary by county and comparison with previous years.

·         CIR summary by county: KSCIR_summary_by_county_2012.xlsx (Apr 15, 2013)

·         CIR comparison with previous years: KSCIR_update2012_COMPARE.xls (Apr 15, 2013)

5.  Streamflow records from State-Maintained Gaging Records - Not applicable to Kansas 

6.  Platte River Reservoirs - Not applicable to KS

7. Water Administration Notification - Not applicable to KS

8. Moratorium

·         2012_KS_Wells_Moratorium.xls (Apr 15, 2013)

·         KansasWaterAppropriationRegsAdopted_in_2012.pdf (Apr 15, 2013)

9. Non-Federal Reservoirs - There were no new dams constructed in KS within the RRC basin above Hardy. Thus the inventory is the same we provided last year.

Kansas RRCA groundwater model input files

Preliminary data (posted April 15, 2013)

·         GWFor2012Prelim.zip - Groundwater data files (*.rcg, *.pmp, 2012.mi, 2012.agw) (April 15, 2013)

·         SWFor2012Prelim.zip - Surface water recharge files for the model (*.rcg, 2012.asw) (April 15, 2013)

·         RRCS_Overlap_Groups_2012_prelim.zip - supporting data for development of the files above (April 15, 2013)

·         gwprog2012prelim.ZIP - Program and data files to produce the groundwater files for 2012. Batch file pumprech was updated to specify Almena area factor for 2012. Batch file operation: pumprech 2012

·         swprog2012prelim.ZIP - Program and data files to produce the surface water recharge files for 2012.  Batch file operation: swrech 2012

·         staticdata2010.zip - Static data files used by the GW and SW programs; unchanged since 2010 data exchange (April 15, 2013)

The staticdata2010.zip file includes three files (02.ibound, 40coords.dat and cty.flg) from commonprogs2004.zip that has been posted in previous years, plus four additional files (swrech.par, pumprech.par, monthlyfactorsbycounty.txt and Almenapdivs.txt), which are read by updated programs in gwprog2012prelim.zip and swprog2012prelim.zip.  Batch files are used to run the programs.

Programs to produce groundwater data files (pumprechv8) and surface water data files (swrechv3) remain unchanged from the 2010 final data exchange. The groundwater batch file pumprech, to run pumprechv8, was simplified from 2010 by requiring only the year to be specified as an argument; previously, a second argument was specified that has been written into the batch file. This is the Almena factor for 2012, the groundwater-exclusive irrigation area as a fraction of total irrigated area in the Almena District (0.596043). Program changes in 2010 eliminated the need to create separate copies of the programs and static data files for each year’s data exchanges. The program pumprechv8 was revised to calculate distances between points of diversion and places of use to a diagnostic output file, AuthacresYYYY.out, and a summary of reported irrigated area by grid cell, file acresgrid2012.dat; these two files were imported as sheets in RRCA_Overlap_Groups_2012_Final.xlsx.

Final data (posted August 29, 2013):

·         GWFor2012Final.zip - Groundwater data files (*.rcg, *.pmp, 2012.mi, 2012.agw) [corrected 8/30/2013]

·         SWFor2012Final.zip - Surface water recharge files for the model (*.rcg, 2012.asw) [corrected 8/30/2013]

·         RRCS_Overlap_Groups_2012_Final.zip - supporting data for development of the files above [corrected 8/30/2013]

·         gwprog2012Final.zip - Program and data files to produce the groundwater files for 2012. [corrected 8/30/2013]

   Batch file operation: pumprech 2012

·         swprog2012Final.zip - Program and data files to produce the surface water recharge files for 2012. [corrected 8/30/2013]

   Batch file operation: swrech 2012

Batch files and programs used to produce groundwater data files (pumprechv8) and surface water data files (swrechv3) remain unchanged from the April 15, 2011 preliminary data exchange.

For questions contact Chris Beightel at 785-296-3830.

Last updated: August 30, 2013 (spp)