WSP10418

• File Number: 8141.700
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project - Annual Operating Plans and Reports
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 11/1/1978
• Author: US DoI BoR
• Title: Annual Operating Plan Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Colorado 1978 -1979
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

Rue<i1 ~rvoir oontent on September 30, 1978 was 98,334 acre-feet.

Table 1 and Exhibit 4 show the operation of Ruedi Peservoir during water

year 1978.

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South and tbrth Side COllection System

'!he Fryingpan-Arkansas Project imports began on April 26 and stopped on
August 17, 1978. Diversions \..ere made from April 26 to May 1 and fran
May 15 through August 17.

The total diversion through Chareles H. Boustead Tunnel in 1978 was
49,319 acre-feet which included 49,033 acre-feet of direct diversions
and 286 acre-feet of seepage. '1lle 1978 diversions shawn on Exhibits 5F
and 5G include 345 acre-feet of Busk- Ivanhoe water carried through the
oollection system. The sources of the diversions are: Sawyer Gulch,
5%; Chapnan Gulch, 16%; South Fork, 26%; Fryingpan River, 40%: Lily Pad,
3%; and Ivanhoe Creek, 10%.

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'!be Fryingpan-Arkansas Camlission net with representatives of the Bureau
of Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service (known then as the Bureau of
Sport Fisheries and Wildlife), Forest Servi;ce, and COlorado Division of
Wildlife on May 10, 1972, and discussed the distribution of rni.nimurn
fishery bypass flows on the ooHection system as based on the ~rating
Principles. '!be Bureau of Reclamation proposed that bypass fish flows
not be required at Granite, South Cunningham, Lily Pad, and Sawyer Creek
diversions as these creeks had dried up during the previous year. 'Ihe .
Fish and Wildlife Sezvice stated that it had written a letter on October
19, 1964, suggesting that the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project forego fish
bypass flows at the above-rrentioned diversion points.

'ltlose attending the rreeting agreed to these operating criteria, and the
Fish and Wildlife Sezvice letter of May H, 1972, to the Chainnan of the
Fryingpan-Arkansas Camlission reCOllllended that the Bureau of Reclamation
forego fish bypass flows at Granite, Lily Pad, and Sawyer Creek diversion
points. 'lherefore, the following bypass requirerrents were used during
the 1978 operation:

Diversion Point

Fishery Bypass
Requi.renent
ft3;s

2
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3
6
12

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Ivanhoe Creek
Lily Pad
Sawyer Creek
Chapnan Gulch
South Fork
Fryingpan River

'Ibtal

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