WSP10175

• File Number: 8141.200
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project - Mailing Lists and Correspondence
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/1975
• Author: various
• Title: Fourteen Statements History of Fryingpan-Arkansas Project and Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Project Overview

rights, the State of Colorado was dividea into water districts

I

I

0'131

I

10

I

return to the aquifer ond ore ogain diverted. and this probably

happens four, five or six times. It is the use and reuse of pro-

I

ject woters which will permit the Fryingpon Project, along with
the capture of flood waters and the importation of Western Slope

I

waters, and Winter Storage in Pueblo Reservoir. to produce roug~ly

a new water supply equivalent to 150,000 or 160,000 cere-feet a
year. The ditches on the Arkansas, as distinct from any other

I

rivor in Colorado, have for fifty years mode a practice of pUddling

I

wa~ers in the winter time on their fields, onticipating a water
shortage, i.e., maKing a reservoir out of their field. If they
would discontinue this use it would save a greet deel of evapora-
tion losses o~d it is hoped that we con get their cooperation and

I

I

I
baCking to ottempt to store these winter waters in Pueblo for use

I

during the growing seoson. Water solvage is another item in Miss
I

I

6ouris' list ond water solvage can be effected by better regula-

tions by the Stote Engineer or the F.P, Project, destruction .of

I

phreotophytes. On the phreatophytes we' had the Army Engineers

I

come in to investigate channelizing the Arkansas and dropping the
water level some ten or twelve feet, which probably destroyed 80%

I

of the phreatophyte growth, but the cost of this was prohibitive

number one, and number two. you cannotdes.troy 0 greenbel t in
Colorado in the face of opposition from the ecologists and prob-

I

ably this is 0 good thing, The greenbelts ore necessory and
appor'ently will remain at least until such time as the water de-
mands require their destruction. On the eorly history of water

I

I

ond starting on the Arkansas, you have 'different districts 11. 12.

I