WSP08733

• File Number: 8141
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 3/7/1960
• Author: Acting Sec of Interi
• Title: Letter from Acting Secretary of the Interior transmitting a Report and Findings on Ruedi Dam and Reservoir Colo Pursuant to the Federal Reclamation Laws
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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RUEDI DAM AND RE!SERVOIR, COLO.

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OpJo:n.'\TINft PRINCIPLES, FnYJNGPAK-ARKA:SSAS PnOJECT

Adopted IJY the State of Colorado, April 30, 1959 (as amended Dec. 30,
1959)

The rOllstl'uetiQIl and operat.ion of the project jn\'oh~e the diversion
of 'water from t.he Iteadwate-I's of the Fl'yingpan Rn"er. and otl~el'
tributaries of the Roaring Fork River to the Arkansas River Hasm.
The project contempbtes- .
(fl.) The llIaXlInUm conservatIOn anu use of water;
. (b) The protretion of western Colorado water uses, both ex-
isting and potential, in accordance with the declared polIcy of
the State of Colorado; and
(c) The preservation of recreational vulues.
In order to accomplish snch pnrposes, the project shall be operated
by the United States in compliance with the Federal reclam~tl?n laws,
the laws of t he State of Colorado relat.ing to the apprUpl'latlOll, use,
01' distribution of water, and the following operating principles:
1. As used herein-
(a.) "Project.~' means thilt cel'inin enterprise planned and .de.
signed by the. Bureau of Recl:unntion, Department of the InterIOr,
for the transmountain diversion of wflter from the headwaters of
t.he Frvingpiwl River :llld ot.her t.ribut.aries of the Roaring Fork
River to the basin of the Arkansas River, together with all of it"
appurl<mant works and facilities in botb eastern and western
Colorado.
(b) "Eastern Colorado" means that portion of the State of
Colorado lying within t,he natuml drainage basin of the Arkansas
River.
(c) "'Vestern Colorado" means that portion of the State of
Colorado lying wit,hin tbe natural drainage basin of the Colorado
Ri,'el' and sen'ed hv diversions made from the Colorado River,
or its tributaries, above its contluence with the Gunnison River.
(d) "Southeaslern Colorado Water Consernlilcy District"
means that entity created to contract. for payment to the United
States of an appropriate port.ion of project costs allocated to cer-
tain water uses in ~astern Colorado.
(c) "Calm'ado R.iver 'Vat.er Conservation District" means that
entity created by Colorado Revised Statutes 1953, 149-8, as
amended.
(I) "Southwestern 'Vater COl1sel'\'Htion Distl'icC' means that
ent.lty created by Colorado Rel'ised Statutes 1953, 149-9, as
amended,
(q) "Ruedi Reservoir" means the reservoir presently planned
for constr'uction on the F.ryingpan River above t.he town of Ba-
salt as part. of the prolect.'
(h) "Ashcroft Res~v~ir" means not. only the resen'oir eontem-
plated for construction on Cast.le Creek, a tributary of t.he Roar-
mg Fork River, but. also, unless t.he context. requires otherwise,
any,otller resen"oir thllt may be ('onst.ructed in the Ro~ring Fork
Bas!n aboH'~,the town of ,Aspen in lieu of that. reservoir..
(1.) "c.f.s: means cubiC feet of water per second of time.

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