WSP08564

• File Number: 8147
• Description: Gunnison-Arkansas Project
• State: CO
• Water Division: 4
• Date: 2/27/1951
• Author: CWCB
• Title: Report of Policy and Review Committee with Proposed Principles of Operation
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

Western 'Colorado in lieu of that reservoir for the purpose of

"L 1 ;~~tecting water uses in Western Colorado.

(r) "c.f.s." means cubic feet of water per second of time.

2. The Aspen Reservoir shall be constructed and maintained on the

Roaring Fork River above the town of Aspen, Colorado, with an active capacit~'

of about 28,000 acre-feet and ,vith a reasonable expectancy that it will fill

annually. The 2C,OOO acre-feet of v/ater stored therein sha:.l to available

for replacement purposes in Western Colorado. All of such stored water

shall be released under the conditions and limitations hereinafter set

forth.

3. The cost of c,mstru~ti0n and perpetual operation and Maintenance

of the Aspen Reservoir shell be a charge against the prC1je:ct and shall be

paid from project revenues or as othernise provider: by the ConGress of the

United States.

4. The Aspen Reservoir shall be Gompleted oefore any water is

diverted to Eastern Colorado by means of the project.

S. The prL~ary purpose of Aspen Reservoir is to fv~nish the water

required for the protection of Hestern Colorado water users in accordance

-with-provisions-of-Section-l,-Chapter-19l,-C510raao-SesSion-La::s,-r943;

6. The replacement capacity of the Aspen Heservoir is that portion

of the total reservoir caracity required to protect existinG riGhts to the

use Of v/ater in "'estern Colorac'o ~or domestic, irri(;ation, and ';Janufacturing

purposes (including p01"er generation) and hereafter acquired rights to the

use of water in Weste~'" G,,1.or~do for domestic, irri:;ation, and manufacturing

purposes (excluding rOHer' ,;erieration) against any nnc'. all losses of needed

water because of stre&l1l depletions resulting from project operations. In

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