RRCA Kansas data for 2013

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Data for the April 15, 2014 exchange were posted April 14, 2014; final groundwater model data posting was completed August 20, 2014.

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_2013_prelim.zip (preliminary version, Apr 14, 2014); RRCS_Overlap_Groups_2013_final.zip (final version) was posted Aug 20, 2014.

2. Groundwater pumping and irrigated acreage - Groundwater data required by the Settlement is included in the above file.

3. Climate information - KSNE2013_precip_temp_data.xlsxDaily climate data used to calculate Crop Irrigation Requirements. Data source: Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) data. (Apr 14, 2014)

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

·         CIR summary by county: KSCIR_summary_by_county_2013.xlsx (Apr 14, 2014)

·         CIR comparison with previous years: in progress

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

·         2013_KS_Wells_Moratorium.xls (Apr 14, 2014)

·         KansasWaterAppropriationRegsAdopted_in_2013.pdf (Apr 14, 2014)

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 14, 2014)

·         GWFor2013Prelim.zip - Groundwater data files (*.rcg, *.pmp, 2013.mi, 2013.agw).

·          SWFor2013Prelim.zip - Surface water recharge files for the model (*.rcg, 2013.asw).

·         RRCS_Overlap_Groups_2013_prelim.zip - supporting data for development of the files above.

·         gwprog2013prelim.ZIP - Program and data files to produce the groundwater files for 2013. Batch file pumprech was updated to specify Almena area factor for 2013. Batch file operation: pumprech 2013

·         swprog2013prelim.ZIP - Program and data files to produce the surface water recharge files for 2013.  Batch file operation: swrech 2013

·         staticdata2010.zip - Static data files used by the GW and SW programs; unchanged since 2010 data exchange.

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 gwprog2013prelim.zip and swprog2013prelim.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 2013, the groundwater-exclusive irrigation area as a fraction of total irrigated area in the Almena District (0.5638455). 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, and write the distances to AuthacresYYYY.out, and to a summary of reported irrigated area by grid cell, file acresgrid2013.dat; these two files were imported as sheets in RRCA_Overlap_Groups_2013_Final.xlsx.

Final data (posting completed August 20, 2014):

·         GWFor2013Final.zip - Groundwater data files (*.rcg, *.pmp, 2013.mi, 2013.agw). [Aug 19, 2014]

·         SWFor2013Final.zip - Surface water recharge files for the model (*.rcg, 2013.asw). [Aug 12, 2014]

·         RRCS_Overlap_Groups_2013_Final.zip - supporting data for development of the groundwater input data files. [Aug 20, 2014]

·         gwprog2013Final.zip - Program and data files to produce the groundwater files for 2013. [Aug 19, 2014]

   Batch file operation: pumprech 2013

·         swprog2013Final.zip - Program and data files to produce the surface water recharge files for 2013. [Aug 12, 2014]

   Batch file operation: swrech 2013

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 20, 2014 (spp)