Montana State Legislature

Materials received by the working group:

• Request for analysis by Reps. Ballance, Regier (April 28, 2014)
• Proposed Water Use Agreement (appendix to CSKT compact; Jan. 17, 2013)
• Flathead Indian Irrigation Project hydrology reports
  • Nov. 14, 2012
  • Dec. 12, 2012
  • Jan. 9, 2013
  • Feb. 13, 2013
  • March 13, 2013
• Hungry Horse Reservoir reports (Bureau of Reclamation):
  • Draft Flathead Basin tribal depletions study(Bureau of Reclamation; April 2010)
  • Biological impact evaluation...for 90,000 acre-foot withdrawal (Bureau of Reclamation)
    • Jan. 10, 2011 report
    • Sept. 14, 2011 revised report
• RWRCC letter to CSKT: Response to tribal supplemental water from Hungry Horse Reservoir (Jan. 10, 2011)
• RWRCC presentation on instream flows (June 27, 2012)
• Technical Basis for Flathead Indian Irrigation Project Water Use Agreement(HKM-Dowl; Sept. 4, 2012)
• Presentation on the background of the ET mapping procedure (RWRCC; Sept. 4, 2012)
• Letter from RWRCC to CSKT re: HYDROSS model (2010)
  • Documents referenced in letter:
    • Jocko mass balance - baseline run (RWRCC, 2010)
    • Mission mass balance - baseline run (RWRCC, 2010)
• RWRCC staff review of Hydross model (RWRCC, 2014)
• Field-Scale Evapotransporation for the Mission Valley using METRIC(University of Idaho; July 2009)
• List of CSKT records provided to RWRCC, FJBC (May 21, 2014)
• Matching irrigation water delivery on irrigated pasture to local transpiration, comparison with CSKT compact (Jerry Laskody; Sept. 2012)
• The Flathead Project (Bureau of Reclamation; 2001)
• Report on conditions found to exist on the Flathead Irrigation Project, "Walker Report" (Office of Indian Affairs; June 1946)
• Kate Vandemoer presentation: "Federal Reserved Water Rights" (June 25, 2014)
• Jerry Laskody presentation: "Matching Irrigation Water Delivery..." (June 25, 2014)
• RWRCC data files for analysis of CSKT compact modeling
• U.S. Department of Justice review of HYDROSS modelling in Jocko district (Jan. 4, 2006)
• Stetson Engineering review of HYDROSS modelling in Jocko district (Aug. 4, 2008)
• HKM presentation: "Technical basis for proposed Flathead Indian Irrigation Project Water Use Agreement" (June 12, 2014)
• Seth Makepeace (CSKT) presentation to TWG (July 17, 2014)
• Flathead Irrigation Information System Summary Report and Irrigation Guide("Dutton Report," Land and Water Consulting, 1994)
• Review and summary of Caulfield notes on River Diversion Allowances(Flathead Joint Board of Control, Aug. 2014)