Measurement Point of Water
Where are water imports measured at? Ask the DNR and they will tell you a compact stream gage. Ask an opponent of water imports and they will say at the Kansas border.
Anyone that wants to know the facts can read the official documents. I have excerpted the key sections.
When you are done reading you should ask the question, where are the selected stream cells? Once you know the answer to that you will have the real answer.
I have a partial list of the “Selected Stream Cells”.
Excerpts from the Republican River Compact Administration Accounting Procedures
and Reporting Requirements
http://tinyurl.com/2hllro
III.A.3
3. Imported Water Supply Credit Calculation:
The amount of Imported Water Supply Credit shall be determined by the RRCA
Groundwater Model. The Imported Water Supply Credit of a State shall not be
included in the Virgin Water Supply and shall be counted as a credit/offset
against the Computed Beneficial Consumptive Use of water allocated to that
State. Currently, the Imported Water Supply Credits shall be determined using
two runs of the RRCA Groundwater Model:
a. The “base” run shall be the run with all groundwater pumping, groundwater
pumping recharge, and surface water recharge within the model study boundary for
the period 1940 to the current accounting year turned “on.” This will be the
same “base” run used to determine groundwater Computed Beneficial Consumptive
Uses.
b. The “no NE import” run shall be the run with the same model inputs as the
base run with the exception that surface water recharge associated with
Nebraska’s Imported Water Supply shall be turned “off.”
The Imported Water Supply Credit shall be the difference in stream flows between
these two model runs. Differences in stream flows shall be determined at the
same locations as identified in Subsection III.D.1.for the “no pumping” runs.
Should another State import water into the Basin in the future, the RRCA will
develop a similar procedure to determine Imported Water Supply Credits.
III.D.1
Calculation of Annual Computed Beneficial Consumptive Use
1. Groundwater
Computed Beneficial Consumptive Use of groundwater shall be determined by use of
the RRCA Groundwater Model. The Computed Beneficial Consumptive Use of
groundwater for each State shall be determined as the difference in streamflows
using two runs of the model:
The “base” run shall be the run with all groundwater pumping, groundwater
pumping recharge, and surface water recharge within the model study boundary for
the period 1940 to the current accounting year “on”.
The “no State pumping” run shall be the run with the same model inputs as the
base run with the exception that all groundwater pumping and pumping recharge of
that State shall be turned “off.”
An output of the model is baseflows at selected stream cells. Changes in the
baseflows predicted by the model between the “base” run and the
“no-Statepumping” model run is assumed to be the depletions to streamflows.
i.e., groundwater computed beneficial consumptive use, due to State groundwater
pumping at that location. The values for each Sub-basin will include all
depletions and accretions upstream of the confluence with the Main Stem. The
values for the Main Stem will include all depletions and accretions in stream
reaches not otherwise accounted for in a Sub-basin. The values for the Main Stem
will be computed separately for the reach above Guide Rock, and the reach below
Guide Rock.
Final Settlement Stipulation
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III.B.1.K
k. Wells acquired or constructed by a State for the sole purpose of offsetting
stream depletions in order to comply with its Compact Allocations. Provided
that, such Wells shall not cause any new net depletion to stream flow either
annually or long-term. The determination of net depletions from these Wells will
be computed by the RRCA Groundwater Model and included in the State’s Computed
Beneficial Consumptive Use. Augmentation plans and related accounting procedures
submitted under this Subsection III.B.1.k. shall be approved by the RRCA prior
to implementation.
IV.H
Augmentation credit, as further described in Subsection III.B.1.k., shall be
calculated in accordance with the RRCA Accounting Procedures and by using the
RRCA Groundwater Model.
I have a partial list of the “Selected Stream Cells”.