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A ··--·,------- ) ---- II E ' V,_,, -- A ------------ r :r ,--- -J -------------\- \ N \. .-..., (-... .J' ~ \l U T A : l '\ ' J ~'I H "l ' " \,- \.JI SNAKE RIVER BASIN Acronyms and Abbreviations BPA Bonneville Power Administration cfs Cubic feet per second Corps United States Army Corps of Engineers DSS Decision Support System ESA Endangered Species Act FCRPS Federal Columbia River Power System FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission IDWR Idaho Department of Water Resources IPC Idaho Power Company IWRB Idaho Water Resources Board kW Kilowatts M&I Municipal and industrial NMFS National Marine Fisheries Service NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service Reclamation Bureau of Reclamation RMP Resource Management Plan SOP Standing Operating Procedures SR3 Snake River Resources Review SS ARR Streamflow Synthesis and Reservoir Regulation USFS United States Forest Service USFWS United States Fish and Wildlife Service USGS United States Geological Survey Table of Contents Page I. Introduction . ·. .. 1 I I_ II. Description of the Boise and Payette River Basins ................................ 2 Geography ........................................................... 2 Water Supply and Historical Change of Flows ................................ 2 ID. History of Water Resource Development ...................................... 5 Prior to Federal Development ............................................ 5 Federal Development ................................................... 6 IV. Overview of Facilities ..................................................... 8 Federal Projects ....................................................... 8 Reclamation Project Authorizations . 9 History and Operation of Federal Dams ..................................... 9 Deer Flat Dams . 11 Boise River Diversion Dam . 11 Arrowrock Dam . 11 Anderson Ranch Dam . 12 Lucky Peak Dam . 12 Black Canyon Dam . 12 Deadwood Dam . 12 Cascade Dam . 13 Other Dams and Reservoirs . 13 Hubbard Dam and Reservoir ............... ·........... : . 13 Payette Lakes . 14 Reclamation Spaceholder Contracts ....................................... 14 Reclamation Reservoir Cost Allocations . 15 Construction Costs ............· . 15 Annual Operating Costs . 16 Water Rights . 16 V. General System Operation . 19 Maintenance Period . 20 Flood Control and Refill Period . 21 Drawdown Period ..................................................... 21 Standing Operating Procedures . 21 General Operating Activities . 21 • Typical Reservoir Contents and Riverflows . ..... 21 l Table of Contents l Page VI. Detailed Operation by Function . 25 Flood Control . 25 Boise River System . 25 Payette River System . : . 26 Irrigation . 26 Arrowrock Division . 26 Payette Division ................................................ 27 Water Rental Pools .............................................. 27 Boise Project Board of Control . 28 I Black Canyon Irrigation District .................................... 29 •: Watermaster ................................................... 29 Power ............................................................. 30 Federal Powerplants ............................................. 30 Non-Federal Powerplants ......................................... 30 J Summary ..................................................... 30 Fish and Wildlife . 3 I Recreation . 31 J Municipal and Industrial Water Supply ..................................... 32 Endangered Species Act (ESA) ....................... : .................. 33 l I VII. Other Issues .......................................................... 34 Boise Valley Ground Water . 3 5 Snake River Basin Water Rights Adjudication .'. ............................. 35 J Water Acquisition for ESA Considerations .................................. 35 Title Transfer ........................................................ 36 Resource Management Plans ............................................ 36 l 3 Snake River Resources Review (SR ) ...................................... 36 Reservoir Conservation Pools . .. 3 7 Instream Flow Management ............................................ 3 7 l Water Quality . 3 7 l VIII. Glossary ............................................................ 38 Appendixes ~ A. Abbreviated River Mile Index B. Spaceholder Contracts C. Boise River Flood Control Rule Curves l ~ ~ u ~ I I Table of Contents I Page Tables I Table 1.-Boise Project Irrigated Acres (1992) ..................................... 7 Table 2.-Authorization ofFederal Storage Facilities ............................... 10 Table 3.-Capacities ofFederal Reservoirs ....................................... IO I Table 4.-Allocation of Annual Operating Costs for Reclamation Reservoirs ............. 17 Table 5.-Reclamation Storage Rights .......................................... 19 Table 6.-Summary of Boise System Reservoir Operating Activities .................... 22 I _Table 7.-Summary of Payette System Reservoir Operating Activities ................... 22 Table 8.-District 63 and 65 Water Rental Pool Activity (Acre-Feet) ................... 29 Table 9.-Hydroelectric Powerplants ........................................... 31 I Table I 0.-Flow Augmentation Provided from the Snake River Basin above Brownlee Dam .. 33 Table 11.-Flow Augmentation Provided from the Boise and Payette River Basins ......... 34 I Maps and Figures Snake River Basin ................................................. ·. Frontispiece Boise and Payette River Basins, Major Storage Facilities ....................... follows iii Boise Valley, Major Irrigation Canals . follows 6 Figure I .-Natural Discharge of the Boise River Near Boise, Idaho ...................... 3 I Figure 2.-Natural Discharge of the Payette River at Horseshoe Bend, Idaho .............. 3 Figure 3.-Average Monthly Natural Flow and Observed Flow of the Boise River (at Parma, Idaho) .............................................................. 4 Figure 4.-Average Monthly Natural Flow and Observed Flow of the Payette River (near the mouth) .............................................................. 4 Figure 5.-0perating Periods and Seasons ....................................... 20 Figure 6.-Typical Content and Outflow of Boise Project Reservoirs ................... 23 111 • II .N' I' II II II Cascade • Reclamation • Irrigation and power II • Completed in 1948 MILES • ?03,200 acre-feet total storage 0 10 20 30 • 26 500 surface acres 0 1020304050 I . 12:soo kWpowerplant I co:.~ KILOMETERS ~ L.. ----~ ,stf'f····~ II -et"' .. · I Black Canyon f( , I / I ' (''- • Reclmnation •· ru / ~ ' ~ • lrrigntion i11 ooo' ') Sm<fh• ~ \ / /:" . f.fos ,, ~Ferry VAU.EY co ~b I _>-,, / 1,1,,;i;;;x;," 1' I sl~ ,-,,,_-~--.;;"',--~\-- • l.lOOsurface acres t' ~ \ / lJ'·. '--~ ~'~ " ,' ~ • 8,000 kW powerplant -~INGT~ -~-91.._,___j ~;i~-' ~ ) eariks{-----,o G0<d00Volley ' ii yette I .'I"°' , . , - ' \ """"'. ~ " ~I I 1 -~ ''!, / ii »ey- I ~ '" ~~<\}~~$ ¥t~ ~ j , 2h-forseshoe ii ' Q '"" ~~i•'W Emmett I / Beod ! l--"-"-:r''----.! I ~..'mr-L Ii 1'\'.o ~-~ &lg \,~ Deer Flat (Lake Lowell) I ·~'---,bo.,;1: Middleton ~3 Stor // "'"q'c-'Z •. 1 :e& o S'<to1 .w.'ive;,. " 11 •' Reol":''''°"Jrriget<on _ ""·I r· --~~· • ,_ I ·--.c.=:~BOISE. '- • Completed173,000acre-feettotalstorage m 1908 Caldwell ··:;",,,,··~ 1 1Men~ 1" . '·~ ~ , 1 11 • 9,840 rncfaoe ""' Mw•I~ ' .,,, VN~mpa .- ' - 7 j\:'.?~,~:.~ ~ I A Initial II .... Pomt BOISE AND PAYETTE RIVER BASINS MAJOR DAMS AND STORAGE FACILITIES I. Introduction I The purpose of this document is to provide an with a supplemental water supply. Lands newly overview of the operation of the Federal storage developed as part of the Federal project receive a system in the Boise and Payette River basins in full water supply from the project. Several I southwestern Idaho. The Boise and Payette points, which are further developed throughout Rivers are tributaries of the Snake River. this document, should be kept in mind in I Increasing demands and controversy over the use considering Reclamation operation of the Boise of Snake River resources require an and Payette Rivers: understanding of the history of water I development, river hydrology, characteristics of • Reclamation hold both natural flow rights the dams and reservoirs, and the legal and and storage rights for project purposes. institutional requirements for operation of the Water rights for the purpose ofirrigation are generally appurtenant to the land. current system. Water operations in the past focused on out-of-stream diversions to irrigate • Water rights are administered by the land and storage operations for flood control. In State; Reclamation law, beginning with I' recent years, additional demands on the water the 1902 Reclamation Act, provides that ' resource have focused
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