The Deadman's Basin Water Users Association (DBWUA) consists of 110 irrigators on the Musselshell River encompassing nearly 200 meandering miles between Shawmut and Mosby Montana. DBWUA diverts Musselshell River water into an off-stream storage facility, Deadman's Basin Reservoir, via an 11.5 mile supply canal and delivers contract water via two outlet canals, the 2.85 mile long Barber canal and the 9.5 mile long Careless Canal. Deadman's Basin reservoir has a total capacity of 72,220 acre feet at full pool. There are currently 40,500 acre feet of water contracted for from the reservoir.

Inflows

0 CFS

Outflows

225 CFS

Water Orders

195 CFS

 

The Delphia-Melstone Project will have diverted their total contract shares by the end of the week. My releases will drop in half once I am no longer delivering them water. I still anticipate ending the season on or before September 30th with 20,000 to 25,000 acre feet remaining in the reservoir.

 

The Inlet canal is off now and we are starting to prepare to intsall the next 2000 linear feet of liner.

It is essential that you order your contract water PRIOR to diverting it so that I can maintain a steady flow at Musselshell.

 

The 2008 season delivery percentage has been increased to 100%!

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The water commissioner for contract and decreed water from Deadman's to Roundup (Zone 3) is John Rouane and the water commissioner for contract and decreed water from Roundup to Mosby (Zone 2) is Bob Goffena.

The MRDP Project began Monday, April 21st at 6:00 a.m.

 

 

SNOW REPORTS

(updated 4/20/08 @ 6:00 a.m.)

 

 

HISTORICAL DATA

Mid-March & Mid-April Data for 7 years:

Year	Storage For Mid-March	Inflow For Mid-March in CFS	Storage For Mid-April	Inflow For Mid-April in CFS	Diverted during the MRDP in AF	%Delivered
2008	24,740	60	25,572	20	N/A	Est. 50%
2007	35,481	75	42,166	70	3,062	100%
2006	37,668	100	41,229	96	10,338	100%
2005	19,058	12	20,768	0	27,206	100%
2004	18,726	23	20,823	0	1,637	38%
2003	19,871	44	23,300	54	7,770	75%
2002	15,986	39	18,011	51	0	25%

 

 

Construction at DB 21 wasteway by Martin Excavating

DB 21 wasteway completed in 2006

2008 O & M PROJECTS

• 3 miles of Careless Canal is scheduled to be cleaned prior to April 30th
• Apply canal seal to largest seep areas in Barber and Careless Canals prior to water releases
• Reshape canal bank and place fabric and rip-rap at Barber Canal headgate
• Install new measuring devices on the Inlet Canal
• Raise canal bank free-board by 2 feet on 500' of the lower Inlet Canal
• Remove Russian Olive trees at confluence of Barber and Careless Canals
• Clean sediment from lower Barber Canal
• Weed management on all canals
• Install 2000' of liner on the Inlet Canal in July