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Modifications to the Fountain Creek transit-loss accounting program to account for Fryingpan-Arkansas water return flows

Study Area: Fountain Creek between Colorado Springs and confluence with the Arkansas River, El Paso and Pueblo Counties.
Period of Project: May 1, 2001 through September 30, 2002
Project Number: CO427
Project Chief: Gerhard Kuhn and Ellen Samuels
Cooperator: City of Fountain, Security Water District, and Widefield Water and Sanitation District

BACKGROUND:

The Fountain Creek transit-loss accounting program, a FORTRAN program coded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), is used to compute transit losses for transmountain return flows (TRF) in Fountain Creek between Colorado Springs and the Arkansas River. Subsequent modifications to the program were made to account for diversions of TRF, allow input of TRF’s at locations other than the City of Colorado Spring’s waste-water treatment facility (WWTF), incorporate an additional streamflow-gaging station into the program computations, and add the capability of the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District to account for TRF’s derived from the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project (FAP). Other water users along Fountain Creek need a method to account for FAP return flows used by each entity and calculate transit losses.

OBJECTIVES:

• Make modifications to the Fountain Creek transit- loss accounting program that will account for FAP return flows for the City of Fountain, Security Water District, and Widefield Water and Sanitation District and calculate transit losses.