WSP10676

• File Number: 8200.766
• Description: Gunnison River General
• State: CO
• Basin: Gunnison
• Water Division: 4
• Date: 1/1/3000
• Author: Unknown
• Title: Gunnison-Arkansas - Various Data Regarding Aspen Reservoir Site-Etc
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Data

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Colorado Springs

To supplement present supplies and looking forward to future re-

quirements, the city of Colorado Springs is seeking an additional 13,000

acre-feet of water annually. There is a plan in which this supply could

be obtained from Beaver Creek. The plan would incorporate the following.

(1) The construction of a storage reservoir on Beaver Creek, be-

law the junction of East and West Beever. The reservoir would be built to

regulate the flow of 13,000 acre-feet. This wou ld require the enlargement,

also, of the Skagway Dam on West Beaver Creek.

(2) The building of a pipe line to Colorado Springs with a poss-

ible storage reservoir in the Colorado Springs area..

(3) The extension of the State Ditoh at Canon City to furnish wa-

ter to the Penrose area to replace the supply being obtained from Beaver

Creek.

(4) The enlargement of Brush Hollow Reservoir with a pump line

to irrigate the lligher lands in the area.

The dam for municipal water supply and the pipe line would be the

city's responsibility.

Pusblo

Of the towns in the valley, Pueblo is affected most by the trans-
mourtain diversion. The future water requirements for Pueblo could be either
supplemented or furnished entirely from the transmountain diversion.
The major features of a future system utilizing storage in the
Sugar Loaf Reservoir are as follows.

(1) The diversion of water from East Fork and Tennessee Forks of

the Arkansas River. The water would be intercepted at elevation 9,915 and