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<br />limited participating project because it does utilize water diverted from
<br />the Upper Colorado River System to the eastern slope of Colorado.
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<br />The Eastern Colorado Projects Office, located in Loveland, Colorado
<br />directs the operation and maintenance activities of the Colorado-Big
<br />Thompson and Fryingpan-Arkansas Projects, A field office is located in
<br />Pueblo to coordinate with the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy
<br />District and the State Division Engineer and to administer remaining
<br />construction contracts in the area,
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<br />Work is 99,8 percent completed on Phase II of the Pueblo Fish Hatchery
<br />(rearing ponds). The balance is scheduled for completion by February of
<br />1991. During 1990, the following species and numbers of fish were
<br />produced at the hatchery: McConaughy strain rainbow trout, 920,830;
<br />brown trout, 47,880; tiger muskie, 94,558; channel catfish, 192,640;
<br />saugeye, 7,662,152; walleye, 47,115,512; and hybrid striped bass,
<br />2,152,946, for a total fish production of58,186,518.
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<br />National Environmental Policy Act (NEP A) compliance was approved
<br />on August 1, 1989 for the Round II sale of an additiona151 ,500 acre-feet
<br />of water from Ruedi Reservoir, The 51,500 acre-feet under the approved
<br />plan will be reduced by 5,000 acre-feet to be released for the endangered
<br />fish of the Colorado River and by the 7,850 acre-feet of Round I sales.
<br />Round II water sales will be resumed in 1991.
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<br />Contents of reservoirs within the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project as of
<br />September 30,1990, were as follows: Ruedi Reservoir, 92,302 acre-feet;
<br />Turquoise Lake, 125,517 acre-feet; Mt. Elbert Forebay, 9,644 acre-feet;
<br />Twin Lakes, 114,335 acre-feet; and Pueblo Reservoir, 116,870 acre-feet.
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<br />Transmountain diversions from the Colorado River Basin in Colorado
<br />during water year 1990 for the Colorado- Big Thompson and Fryingpan-
<br />Arkansas Projects were as follows: Alva B. Adams Tunnel, 216,800 acre-
<br />feet; and Charles H. Boustead Tunnel, 46,610 acre-feet.
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<br />b. Dallas Creek Project
<br />Block Notice Number two was issued for the Dallas Creek Project on
<br />March 21, 1990. The notice includes all irrigation waters for the project,
<br />involving 11,200 acre-feet. The notice was issued to Tri-County Water
<br />Conservancy District. The first payment under the repayment contract
<br />will be made in February of 1993.
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