RRCA Kansas data for 2014

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Data for the April 15, 2015 exchange were posted April 15, 2015; final groundwater model data were posted June 30, 2015, with corrections posted July 2015 and April 2017 as indicated below. Updates in April 2017 correct mainstem CBCU.

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_2014.zip (final version, Apr 20, 2017).

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

3. Climate information - KSNE2014_precip_temp_data.zipDaily climate data used to calculate Crop Irrigation Requirements. Data source: Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) data. (Apr 15, 2015)

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

·       CIR summary by county: KSCIR_summary_For2014.xlsx (Apr 15, 2015)

·       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

·       2014_KS_Wells_Moratorium.xls (Apr 15, 2015)

·       Kansas Water Appropriation Regs Adopted in 2014.pdf (Apr 15, 2015)

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, 2015)

·       gwFor2014prelim.zip - Groundwater data files (*.rcg, *.pmp, 2014.mi, 2014.agw).

·        swFor2014prelim.zip - Surface water recharge files for the model (*.rcg, 2014.asw).

·       rrcs_Overlap_Groups_2014_prelim.zip - supporting data for development of the files above.

·       gwprog2014prelim.zip - Program and data files to produce the groundwater files for 2014. Batch file pumprech was updated to specify Almena area factor for 2014. Batch file operation: pumprech 2014

·       swprog2014prelim.zip - Program and data files to produce the surface water recharge files for 2014.  Batch file operation: swrech 2014

·       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 gwprog2014prelim.zip and swprog2014prelim.zip.  Batch files are used to run the programs.

Program changes:

A problem with the final groundwater pumping data was identified such that for a relatively small number of points of diversion, their overlap groups groups are not associated with authorized place of use. This is a problem that may be due to water use reporting database errors, which we will try to identify and correct for next year’s data exchange. The consequence is that roughly 1,400 of 429,000 irrigated acres and 160 of 54,000 acre-feet of return flow are not included in the model input, which are minor discrepancies.

The batch file pumprech.bat and program pumprechv10 introduce a workaround for the above problem by first identifying and building a list of such wells, and then placing the missing irrigated area and return flow in the cells corresponding to the associated points of diversion. The program pumprechv10 is a modified version of pumprechv9, which had been used to produce the pumping data for the April 15, 2015 preliminary data exchange.

The batch file and program previously used to produce groundwater data files (pumprechv9) was modified to expand a diagnostics output file but otherwise remains unchanged. The batch file and program used to produce surface water data files (swrechv3) remain unchanged from the April 15, 2011 preliminary data exchange.

The program used to produce groundwater data files, pumprechv9, is a modified version of pumprechv8 that was used for the 2013 final data exchange. It was modified only to expand the diagnostics output file AuthacresYYYY.out to show total groundwater irrigated area in each cell as authorized irrigation tracts are accumulated, but otherwise has no effect on output. The groundwater batch file pumprech now runs pumprechv10. As before, the year 2014 is given as a command line argument. The Almena factor for 2014, the groundwater-exclusive irrigation area as a fraction of total irrigated area in the Almena District, is 0.59894277 (updated June 30, 2015).

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 in 2011 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 acresgridYYYY.dat.

Final data (posted June 30, 2015; updated as indicated):

·       GWFor2014Final.zip - Groundwater data files (*.rcg, *.pmp, 2014.mi, 2014.agw). (posted July 15, 2015)

·       SWFor2014Final.zip - Surface water recharge files for the model (*.rcg, 2014.asw; corrected Apr 20, 2017).

·       RRCS_Overlap_Groups_2014.zip - supporting data for development of the groundwater input data files (July 15, 2015).

·       gwprog2014Final.zip - Program and data files to produce the groundwater files for 2014 (posted July 15, 2015).

   Batch file operation: pumprech 2014

·       swprog2014Final.zip - Program and data files to produce the surface water recharge files for 2014; corrected Apr 20, 2017).

   Batch file operation: swrech 2014

For questions contact Chris Beightel at 785-564-6659.

Last updated: July 15, 2015 (spp)