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~ ';:ji~:!~ ;~i!fi '::0.'" ',~~~,;~;, N N 00 W l.<"~;-;', :"}/i' ,:,~,;:}~ ~\t~i 4-18-52 The proposed Fryingpan-Arkansas project is a multiple-purpose development planned primarily to furnish supplemental water for irrigation and municipal and domestic use in the Arkansas Valley in Colorado. The project would provide facilities' for the maximwn beneficial ,use of the waters of the Arkansas River and for the average impartation of 69,200 acre-feet of water annually from tributaries of the Roaring Fork River, a branch of the Colorado. The project is an independent, self-sustaining unit which can be readily integrated into a comprehensive plan for the development of the Arkansas Basin fn Colorado. The importation of water from the Colorado River Basin in the amount propos ed by the Fryingpan diversion is in accordance with the provisions of the Colorado River Compact and Upper Colorado River Basin Compact. Construction and operation of the project, in accordance with the plans set forth in Senate Document No. 106, 82nd Congress, 2nd Session, have the approval of the State of Colorado. Development of the project would provide: (a) About 185,000 acre-feet of water annually at the canal headgate in the Arkansas Valley to supplement the present inadequate irrigation supply; this would be accomplished through importation of water from the Colorado River Basin, conservation of native flood flows, reregu- lation of winter flows and reuse of return flows; (b) about 15,000 acre-feet of municipal and domestic water to improve in quality and supplement the supplies of Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and the valley tovms of Manzanola, Rocky Ford, La Junta, Las Animas, Lamar, Crowley, Wiley and Eads; (c) about 505 million kilowatthours of 1