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… not adversely affect the "Current Regime of the River," as that term is used in the document entitled "An Environmental Account for Storage Reservoirs in the Platte River System in Nebraska," (Program Attachment 5, Section 5). For purposes of …
… 44 LaBonde called the meeting to order at 2:00 p.m. Mountain Time. LaBonde announced that the 45 Pathfinder account is full and that water is available to the Program. The group proceeded with 46 introductions. 47 48 Schneider … intact until land acquisition gets into full 154 swing. Kraus said he is going to track down what is in the Program account and what has been expended 155 through June 1. Kraus said there is not a need to send another invoice right now. … Campbell asked about the footprint of the dam and whether impounding more water will result in more 165 water in the account. Drain said he was not sure on exact yield levels but that the initial design was about 166 12,000 acre-feet and …
… stressed that if there is a quantitative management action included in the document, it needs to be very flexible to account for things outside of the Program’s control. Larry Todd and others commended the TC and FWS for the work put into … rather than $1.3 million. CNPPID indicated that the Nebraska Department of Water Resources approved the Environmental Account. Ralph and the entire GC recognized Doug for his work on the Cooperative Agreement. Future Governance Committee …
… irrigation water baselines, Central Platte water leasing, 64 NPPD excess flow water, and the Pathfinder municipal account. 65 66 Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) 67 Sellers provided an update on the latest TAC activities. The TAC … approach. Merrill said 154 there are two issues: 1) if you terminate the agreement, Central will close out the account and the money 155 will go back into the account and that will likely have to go back into the federal pot, and 2) there are about 156 $30 million obligated to the …
… not adversely affect the "Current Regime of the River," as that term is used in the document entitled "An Environmental Account for Storage Reservoirs in the Platte River System in Nebraska," (Program Attachment 5, Section 5). For purposes of …
… expensive 172 and lowest yielding lease. The leases with CPNRD and NPPD pay $90/AF and the Pathfinder 173 Municipal Account Lease is $65/AF. Farnsworth added that even though the irrigator lease is 174 the Program’s most expensive water, … Scheel presented Colorado’ annual depletions report for the North Platte Basin for 2023. The 204 analysis takes into account irrigated acres, population, and new post-1997 uses (both industrial 205 and piscatorial, wildlife, and …
… and Grand Island, Nebraska during the period April 1-9, 2002. .. 5 Figure 5. The various terms of the momentum equation account for steady-uniform flow, non-uniform flow, and unsteady flow. … of the south channel.............. 15 Figure 8. Platte River south channel at river mile 288.1 was raised 3.5 feet to account for the difference in water surface elevations between the north and south channels. ... 15 Figure 9. Platte River … flow t Q gAx A Q gAx y SS of ∂ ∂− ∂ ∂ − ∂ ∂−= 11 2 Figure 5. The various terms of the momentum equation account for steady- uniform flow, non-uniform flow, and unsteady flow. The HEC-RAS model utilizes a linearized, implicit, …
… The Role of Integrated Water Resource Management in the Successful 43 Operations of the Lake McConaughy Environmental Account”. 44 • Kevin Werbylo presented at the American Water Resources Association (AWRA) Spring Specialty 45 Conference … to the CPNRD 142 agreement. NPPD will withhold water from irrigation and CNPPID will credit it to the Environmental 143 Account in the fall. The Program will pay the same amount as for CPNRD water. 144 PRRIP – EDO FINAL 09/10/2019 June 11, …
… in Nebraska about boundary issues. The GC approved making ED Jerry Kenny the formal permit holder. Environmental Account (EA) Bypass/Insurance/2008 Pulse Flow Chad Smith provided an update on the monitoring/research protocol workshop … and determine a rate based on a time basis to get a cost estimate. Cooperative Agreement (CA) Funds Remaining in NCF Account – Options Dale Strickland reported that there is $52988.52 remaining in the NCF for CA Funds. There is a $10,000 obligation to David Smith for work on the LIHE, leaving $42,573.88 in the NCF account (or slightly more if David Smith does not bill for the full amount of his obligation). Mike Purcell reported that …
… water quality program. Welker said to some degree they 387 are looking at estrogen disruptors. 388 389 Environmental Account Update 390 Runge provided an update on the status of development of the 2011 Environmental Account (EA) Annual 391 Operating Plan (AOP). Priorities for EA releases in 2011 include whooping crane spring releases, …
… 302 the ED Office provided an update on hydrologic conditions. There was also a discussion about the 303 Environmental Account and the North Platte choke point. Since the meeting, the National Weather 304 Service has shifted some stages at … about releases coming down in the fall. There will be 9,600 acre-feet available to the 311 Program in the Wyoming account. Secondly, negotiations are ongoing about the sponsorship agreement 312 for the J-2 project. There will be a …
… Wyoming, and the Bureau of Reclamation to establish the next request for funds. Barels asked if the money in the NCF account are new or are carryover. Kenny said that is money from contributions made in 2007. Smith discussed the idea of …
… approval. Econopouly thanked Steinke and CNPPID for 50 coordinating releases from the Lake McConaughy Environmental Account. 51 52 WAP Projects and Other Brief Water Updates 53 Cottonwood Ranch Broad-Scale Recharge: Seth Turner, EDO 54 … 132 PRRIP – ED OFFICE 08/09/17 PRRIP WAC Meeting Minutes Page 4 of 7 AFY), and the Lake McConaughy Environmental Account (50,000 AFY). The Tamarack I 133 project pumps water from the South Platte River to fill recharge pits during … six “normal” 189 years and four “wet” years. 190 191 Regarding general operations of the Lake McConaughy Environmental Account, the EA only 192 accrues natural inflows during non-irrigation season. Operational losses represent the volume 193 …
… block, impacts of livestock grazing, hydrologic changes independent of vegetation. How will the data be analyzed to account for these potentially confounding factors? Recommendation: As part of conceptual model development (see response … 16 – 3 – 1 = 12, because the only estimate of the error variance (from the 2009 or 2010 slough-wide sampling) does not account for the potential reduction in error variance due to blocking. The results are: Site Year mean count se sd (log Y) …
… Wyoming, and the Bureau of Reclamation to establish the next request for funds. Barels asked if the money in the NCF account are new or are carryover. Kenny said that is money from contributions made in 2007. Smith discussed the idea of …
… 168 At the end of that growing season, leased water stored in Lake McConaughy is “moved” to the 169 Environmental Account (EA), e.g., leased water signed up in the fall of 2016 will be added to the 170 EA at the end of the 2017 growing … in storage. 189 Kenny said once it is in the EA, it can be carried over from year to year. 190 191 Pathfinder Municipal Account Lease: Jerry Kenny, ED 192 Kenny described the Program’s agreement with the Wyoming Water Development Commission 193 (WWDC) for leasing of surplus water from the Pathfinder Municipal Account. In 2011, the 194 Program made a lump sum payment for 38,400 AF at $51/AF, which was based on an annual 195 …
… monthly change in generation during the month of September. This increase in generation results from environmental account releases which are a component of the alternative. North Platte. Relative to the present condition baseline, the … monthly change in generation during the month of September. This increase in generation results from environmental account releases which are a component of the alternative. North Platte. Relative to the present condition baseline, the …
… and convey it to 236 the state line. In the export statute, water for the program can come from the Environmental 237 Account (33,493 acre-feet) and the Wyoming account (9,600 acre-feet). The water in the 238 Wyoming account is only available if it is not needed for Wyoming uses. Lawson said the 239 Bureau is working with the Wyoming …
… of the total budget and makes quarterly payments each year 397 based on the annual budget less any carryover in its NCF account from the previous year. Chamberlain 398 said he just wondered what happens to money that are not expended. Kenny … Kenny said Wyoming and BOR are keeping track of that; only Colorado is 404 visible because that money is in the NCF account. 405 406 Kenny discussed the preliminary draft of the FY 2012 budget. Kolanz asked if the individual permit for …
… and CNPPID can get a contract in place. 127 128 129 PRRIP – ED OFFICE FINAL 11/18/2009 Page 4 of 4 Pathfinder Municipal Account & Glendo 130 Courtney reported this is a tier 1 WAP project and the ED office is working with Wyoming to 131 …
… 8 will be summarized for inclusion in planning documents related to implementation of the AMP 9 and the Environmental Account Annual Operating Plan (AOP). 10 Plant ecologists have often focused their studies on the summer period, largely …
… Now, the ED Office must provide monthly estimates on upcoming 122 expenses so that money forwarded to the Foundation account is expended in approximately 30 123 days, in an attempt to avoid accumulating interest. At the end of the fiscal … Program funds are distributed in a 136 “fair share” fashion, so even though large amounts may be present in the account due to how 137 States handle their contributions, money cannot be distributed if sufficient funds are not …
… Appendix F of the stipulation. 443 The BOR also has a contract with the State of Wyoming with regard to the Wyoming account in 444 Pathfinder agreed to by both parties with provisions for re-marketing the water. Wyoming can re-market 445 …
… easily consume the entire annual water accrual to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Environmental Account (EA). The Program has applied modeling and management tools in conjunction with previous wet meadow research to … between the target flow and natural discharge at the analysis site multiplied by an attenuation factor in Table 5 to account for flow attenuation between Lake McConaughy and the location of interest (Equation 1). Data from the April 2009 … the site into response zones based on distance from the channel and modifying DEM elevation values in those zones to account for groundwater response estimates. PRRIP – ED OFFICE WHITE PAPER 9/10/2012 Page 20 of 24 Table 9. Case study …
… the duration of peak flows that is important for scouring vegetation. Short duration high flows tend to deposit sand on top of bars and leave them higher for continued vegetation growth. EDO ACTION ITEM: • Bring seasonal peak flow memo … on how to proceed. Rabbe said the goal of this project is to inform how to best use water and when from the EA account and provide evidence for effectiveness of water use to control vegetation. Farnsworth said the difficult question …
… Kenny said that was true. Kenny also said that there are FY 2007 dollars in the Nebraska Community Foundation (NCF) account that will be able to be used for FY 2008 expenditures. Lawson said we should focus on the proposed budget and not …
… and measurements for monitoring and research will be needed to eliminate these problems as much as possible and/or account for them in monitoring and research. The hypotheses referenced in this section are the CEM hypotheses included in … will have the same effects as described in Section IV.B.1.a. IV.B.1.c. Flows Management Action: Using the Environmental Account in Lake McConaughy and the Program’s ability to deliver 5,000 cfs of Program water at Overton, as well as the …
… has authority to 104 implement the Program through September 2020 under the current legislation. 105 106 Environmental Account (EA) Annual Operating Plan (AOP) 107 Econopouly discussed the draft 2020 EA AOP. Drain said that Central and NPPD …
… the surveys may not capture elements important for other species of concern. Henry said surveys could be modified to account for species of concern focus. Jenniges suggested the surveys could be picked back up if needed in future. Caven … calculates crane use days. USFWS calculation is based on the date when the crane group first appears and does not account for partial groups (individual members) leaving during the stay. USFWS has stayed with this method to keep …
… anticipated. The reservoir feasibility 208 will involve not only CNPPID but also FERC. That has to be taken into account before the 209 group can recommend moving forward into Phase II. The ED Office will be investigating 210 potential …
… again by email in 65 July), there will be no water available for the Program to lease from the Pathfinder Municipal 66 Account this year. As of July 31, the volume in the account was 11,429 AF. Also as of July 31, 67 the volume in the Pathfinder EA was 9,931 AF. This is far less than any …
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… complex (along southern bank, DOT property island perimeter). Farnsworth said we can take these disking polygons into account in our analyses. Farnsworth said that the reservoir had recently received an extremely dry designation, so it is … for a 2023 germination suppression release, but in early spring we will reevaluate, taking reservoir conditions into account. Discussion turned to disking and mowing efforts on non-Program conservation lands including Rowe and Crane Trust …
… presentations 92 were made by Sira Sartori (Groundwater Recharge), Mike Drain (Lake McConaughy Environmental 93 Account), Scott Griebling (Wetlands and Wet Meadows Habitat), and Jason Farnsworth (Flow and 94 Sediment Augmentation). 95 … Water 276 service agreement extensions approved; Miller, Czaplewski, Kraus abstained. 277 278 2016 Environmental Account (EA) Annual Operating Plan (AOP) 279 Kenny discussed the EA AOP and pointed out the reference to pallid sturgeon …
… as 2009 GC Vice-Chair; Ted Kowalski seconded. 244 John Lawson appointed 2009 GC Vice-Chair. 245 246 FY09 Environmental Account (EA)-WY2009 Annual Operating Plan 247 Greg Wingfield provided a presentation on plans for an EA-augmented pulse …
… there was a cost savings. 318 319 Purcell will seek formal approval of the agreement for leasing water in the Wyoming account to the 320 Program at the next GC meeting and wanted feedback on the draft outline handed out during the meeting. … he is basing his annual cost of water to the 324 Program on the total cost of the project, including the Environmental Account in Pathfinder Reservoir. 325 Thabault asked if the GC was supposed to mull on this until December. Purcell asked …
… documented whooping cranes from our dataset during times we did fly according to the protocol at that time, but doesn’t account for potential whooping cranes that could have been detected within the adjusted 5-95% window, had we flown. “ …
… and Gosselink 1993). River water surface elevations output from SEDVEG-Gen3 model were used. These elevation data account for differences changes in river elevation due to both river flow differences and to erosion and deposition trends …
… Development Corporation, Dated December 1998. [This is a commercial product. It can be ordered from: < http://www.gams.com/> .] Volume 3 Table of Contents—Economics, Social Analysis, and Scoping CD xlvii Harpman, David A. 2003. The P_GENV4 …
… A final report with suggested updates will be presented to the GC in 332 March 2010. 333 334 2010 Environmental Account AOP 335 Wingfield delivered a presentation on the 2010 Environmental Account (EA) Annual Operating 336 Plan (AOP) and a short summary of results from the 2009 Flow Routing Test. The highest …
… is to be on a willing seller/willing lessor basis. All land acquisition and management decisions will take into account the costs, the relative benefit to the target species, and contribution toward fulfilling the Program's …
… least 25,000 iterations to account for all variability in each parameter. RipRoot modeling will allow prediction of …
… changes in J2 flows be used in tandem with sediment augmentation to slow/stop degradation? ● Modeling and evaluation: ○ Account for confounding environmental and geomorphic factors in your analyses including (1) potential differences in flow … water releases to increase the variation that you’ve already seen based on natural flows? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rra.2615 https://doi.org/10.2110/pec.99.62.0211 10 Extension Big Question #2: How effective is Program … of roosts” and “% of available” over all sites in the study area. b. For the predictors in Table 4 (predictors in the top model), it would be useful to see plots of each variable over all roost sites or available sites over time. For …
… since the time step approved by the GC is daily. 11 In addition, Olsson’s model incorporates a weir flow equation to account for outlet gate release limitations based on the reservoir storage level. In the Combined Operations Report, … the Workgroup recommendation and the impact of hydrocycling mitigation. The ED Office model does not take into account outlet gate sizes and weir flow equations which govern the rate at which water can be released from the reservoir. …
… terminated the “North Platte Chokepoint Test Flow Release” on Friday July 24, 2020 and began ramping down Environmental Account (EA) releases. River stage at the city of North Platte is expected to fall below 6.0 ft on Monday July 27, 2020 … Director, Platte River Recovery Implementation Program Office Phone: (308) 237-5728 E-mail: farnsworthj@headwaterscorp.com mailto:Thomas_Econopouly@fws.gov mailto:farnsworthj@headwaterscorp.com … Press Release - End of 2020 North Platte Chokepoint Test Flow Release …
… to Benefit Whooping Cranes The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) plans to release water from their Environmental Account (EA) to benefit the endangered whooping cranes. Whooping cranes use the Platte River in Nebraska as a stopover … Director, Platte River Recovery Implementation Program Office Phone: (308) 237-5728 E-mail: kennyj@headwaterscorp.com mailto:eliza_hines@fws.gov mailto:kennyj@headwaterscorp.com … EA release 2014 press release …
… is the Program would get the “controllable” part of the water 106 and be able to use it as part of the Environmental Account; right now, there is no control of water coming 107 from conservation projects that is already going down the …