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The Pueblo Chieftain Online - Monday September 25, 2000 wysiwyg: //32 /http: / /www.chieftain.com /monday /news /index.htm ?article =1 c, om■ News <br />ADVERTISEMENT <br />4)22Oick d <br />R L t 1 H ere <br />ADVERTISEMENT <br />Make Chieftain.com your Home Page Home - Personalize - Help <br />Search: 1 It <br />Navigation <br />Weather <br />Current Conditions <br />Unavailable <br />Extended Forecast <br />DEPARTMENTS: <br />News <br />Sports <br />Business <br />Lifestyle <br />Editorial <br />Classifieds <br />Daily Crossword <br />Comics <br />TV Listings <br />Weather <br />Search <br />RECENTISSUES: <br />Monday <br />Tuesday <br />Wednesday <br />Thursday <br />Friday <br />Saturday <br />Sunday <br />OTHER <br />SOURCES: <br />AP: The Wire <br />USAToday <br />The Gazette <br />Rocky Mountain <br />News <br />Denver Post <br />CNNia <br />ABOUT PUEBLO: <br />Business Directory <br />City Guide <br />Chamber of <br />Commerce <br />Riverwalk <br />Pueblo Convention <br />Center <br />Virfi+el Tni ire <br />Quick Nav F11 to <br />Monday September 25, 2000 <br />Chieftain photo by James Amos <br />A diversion dam directs water from Halfmoon Creek near <br />Leadville into the Fryingpan- Arkansas Project's pipeline <br />to Twin Lakes. <br />Quenching our thirst <br />F ryi ng pan -Arkansas Project fulfills Southeastern <br />Colorado's water needs <br />By JAMES AMOS <br />The Pueblo Chieftain <br />Thirsty? Planning to water some flowers? Or a 40 -acre <br />field of corn? <br />If you live around here, you're probably using water <br />from the Frying pan-Arkansas Water Project, a network <br />of water - catching stations, transmountain pipelines <br />and reservoirs that bring Western Slope water under <br />the Continental Divide to the Arkansas Valley. <br />Envisioned as long ago as World War II, the federal <br />project was begun in earnest in 1964 and only finished <br />in 1990 with the completion of the Pueblo Fish <br />Hatchery. <br />The project, which cost $140 million, was built to <br />provide the one thing early Arkansas Valley officials <br />thought the region needed for a future - water. <br />Even back in the 1940s, the Arkansas River's water <br />%e10e ennleen fnr eeweral fimee nver nffirrinle lenow +hen <br />Feature Businesses <br />8 6 t <br />As LTTIJI�t;_,» <br />AS $10.00 <br />A DAY <br />If 4 9/26/00 2:14 PM <br />