Data for the April 15, 2017 exchange were posted April 11, 2017, with updates April 19noted below to correct mainstem CBCU. Final groundwater model updates were posted June 27. Documentation in KS_input_sheet_2016.xls and RRCS_Overlap_Groups_2016_Final.zip was corrected and posted July 18. Files Fed_Net_Evap_For_2016.xlsx and Fed_Net_Evap_thru_2016.zip were corrected and posted August 4.
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Recordings from the annual meeting:
1. Surface water diversions and irrigated acres - Supporting data are in rrcs_Overlap_Groups_2016_final.zip (June 27, 2017).
2. Groundwater pumping and irrigated acreage - Groundwater data required by the Settlement is included in the above file.
3.
Climate information - KSNE2016_precip_temp_data_PRISM.zip
– Daily climate data used to calculate Crop Irrigation Requirements.
Data source: PRISM Data Explorer [formerly used Global Historical Climatology
Network (GHCN) data]. (April
11, 2017)
4. Crop Irrigation Requirements: Summary by county and comparison
with previous years.
· CIR summary by county: KSCIR_summary_For2016.xlsx (April 11, 2017)
· 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
· 2016_KS_Wells_Moratorium.xls (April 11, 2017)
· Kansas%20Water%20Appropriation%20Regs%20Adopted%20in%202016.pdf (April 11, 2017)
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.
Preliminary data (posted April 11, 2017 with updates April 19, 2017 noted below)
·
gwFor2016prelim.zip - Groundwater data files (*.rcg, *.pmp, 2016.mi, 2016.agw).
·
swFor2016prelim.zip
- Surface water recharge files for the model (*.rcg,
2016.asw; updated 4/19/2017).
·
rrcs_Overlap_Groups_2016_prelim.zip
- supporting data for development of the files above.
·
gwprog2016prelim.zip - Program and data files
to produce the groundwater files for 2016. Batch file pumprech
was updated to specify Almena area factor equal to 1 for 2016. Batch file
operation: pumprech 2016
·
swprog2016prelim.zip - Program and data files
to produce the surface water recharge files for 2016 (updated 4/19/2017). Batch file operation: swrech
2016
·
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 gwprog2016prelim.zip
and swprog2016prelim.zip. Batch files
are used to run the programs.
No program changes were made for the 2016 update.
Program changes 2010-2015:
Program pumprechv10 and swrechv3 were both modified slightly in order to refer to static files in folder \RRCA\EC\static\.
A recurring problem noted by Willem in the past is that for a relatively small number of points of diversion, their overlap groups groups are not associated with authorized place of use. This problem was explained in 2014 as a result of changes to the water rights database that occurred between the time whe overlap groups were defined, which is always near the end of the calendar year of water use (circa December 19) and the time when the database is queried in the following year (April 1 and 5 this year for preliminary data).
The program pumprechv10 was modified to build 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, last 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. The year is given as a
command line argument. The Almena District reported no delivered water for 2015
or 2016, so that the Almena factor, the groundwater-exclusive irrigation area
as a fraction of total irrigated area in the Almena District, is equal to 1 for
2015 and 2016.
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 27, 2017 including update to ReportedCropsByCountyFor2016.xlsx):
·
GWFor2016Final.zip - Groundwater data files (*.rcg, *.pmp, 2016.mi, 2016.agw).
·
SWFor2016Final.zip - Surface water recharge files
for the model (*.rcg, 2016.asw).
·
RRCS_Overlap_Groups_2016_final.zip
- supporting data for development of the groundwater input data files (posted
July 17, 2017 with documentation corrections).
·
gwprog2016Final.zip - Program and data files to
produce the groundwater files for 2016.
Batch file
operation: pumprech 2016
·
swprog2016Final.zip - Program and data files to
produce the surface water recharge files for 2016.
Batch file operation: swrech
2016
For questions contact Chris Beightel at 785-564-6659.
Last updated: August 4, 2017 (spp)