RRCA Kansas data for 2017

Kansas data for the April 15, 2018 exchange were posted April 13, 2018. Final updates were posted June 18-July 11, 2018.

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Recordings from the annual meeting:

• None this year

RRCA accounting files

• KS_input_sheet_2017.xls - Kansas accounting input spreadsheet (July 11, 2018).
• Lovewell1995-2017.xlsx –Lovewell evaporation charged to Republican River based on RR component of inflow, and RR diversion to Bostwick district below Lovewell. [calculations supersede those in Lovewell_Ops_2017.xls, subject to EC approval.]
• Lovewell_Ops_2017.xls – superseded Lovewell operations model file to develop split between Republican River and White Rock Creek.
• Fed_Net_Evap_For_2017.xlsx– federal reservoir net evap and storage change for 2017
• Fed_Net_Evap_thru_2017.zip - federal reservoir data for the above file

Kansas annual reporting

(Preliminary data posted April 12, 2018; final data posted June 18, 2018)

1. Surface water diversions and irrigated acres - Supporting data are in RRCS_Overlap_Groups_2017_final_20180607.zip (July 11, 2018)

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

• ReportedCropsByCountyFor2017.xlsx - County crop distribution based on data in sheet crops from the above file

3. Climate information - KSNE2017_precip_temp_data_PRISM.zip – Daily climate data used to calculate Crop Irrigation Requirements. Data source: PRISM Data Explorer

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

· CIR summary by county: KSCIR_summary_For2017.xlsx

· 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

· 2017_KS_Wells_Moratorium.xls

· Kansas%20Water%20Appropriation%20Regs%20Adopted%20in%202017.pdf

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.

• KSNonFedDamsFor2017.xls: Updated inventory of non-federal dams in Kansas; also documents updates from previous versions.
• KSNonFedDam_EVAP_For2017.xls: Tabulation of evaporation from non-federal reservoirs by sub-basin for 2017.

Kansas RRCA groundwater model input files

(Preliminary data posted April 12, 2018)

· gwFor2017prelim.zip - Groundwater data files (*.rcg, *.pmp, 2017.mi, 2017.agw).

· swFor2017prelim.zip - Surface water recharge files for the model (*.rcg, 2017.asw; updated 4/19/2018).

· rrcs_Overlap_Groups_2017_prelim.zip - supporting data for development of the files above.

· gwprog2017prelim.zip - Program and data files to produce the groundwater files for 2017. Batch file pumprech was updated to specify Almena area factor equal to 1 for 2017. Batch file operation: pumprech 2017

· swprog2017prelim.zip - Program and data files to produce the surface water recharge files for 2017 (updated 4/19/2018). Batch file operation: swrech 2017

· 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 gwprog2017prelim.zip and swprog2017prelim.zip. Batch files are used to run the programs.

Program changes for the 2018 update:

The program used previously to produce groundwater pumping input files, pumprechv10, has been superseded by pumprechv11 (.exe and .for files). Changes were made primarily to expand diagnostics written to text file authacresYYYY.out to help track down reporting errors, with a few to avoid compiler grumbling; but neither type of change should have any effect on the model input files written by the program.

For the final update in June 2018, output formatting was modified in programs pumprechv11 and swrechv3 to more clearly define summary output to files pumprech_check2017.out (written by pumprechv11) and swrech_check2017.out (swrechv3); calculations in both programs remain otherwise unchanged from the previous version.

Program changes 2010-2017:

Program pumprechv10 and swrechv3 were both modified slightly in order to refer to static files in folder \RRCA\EC\static\; program pumprechv10 was superseded by purmprechv11.

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 2017, 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 2017.

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 July 6):

· GWFor2017Final.zip - Groundwater data files (*.rcg, *.pmp, 2017.mi, 2017.agw).

· SWFor2017Final.zip - Surface water recharge files for the model (*.rcg, 2017.asw).

· RRCS_Overlap_Groups_2017_final_20180607.zip - supporting data for development of the groundwater input data files (updated July 11 with documentation and corrections).

· gwprog2017Final.zip - Program and data files to produce the groundwater files for 2017.

Batch file operation: pumprech 2017

· swprog2017Final.zip - Program and data files to produce the surface water recharge files for 2017.

Batch file operation: swrech 2017

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

Last updated: July 11, 2018 (spp)