Minutes of Arkansas River Compact Administration Meeting December 14 1993

• Description: ARCA Annual Meeting 12/14/1993
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 12/14/1993
• Title: ARCA Annual Meeting 12/14/1993
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Meeting

ARCA Annual Meeting 26
December 14, 1993
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1 that's owned and constructed and built by the Bureau of Reclamation is the one upstream. It is
2 the same mountain and same number of mines. They come out at different elevations but the one
3 the Bureau has constructed is the one on the road, I guess to the west of the City of Leadville.
4 And there is a sign I believe on the road; if you know where to look you can see it. If you look
5 off the edge of the road, it is just a large steel building and it is a water treatment plant is what it
6 really is. And it...
7 CHAIRMAN COOLEY: Down by the mill on the way to Twin Lakes?
8 MR. JESSE: Well, that would be the other one. That's the Yak tunnel.
9 CHAIRMAN COOLEY: Oh, pardon me.
10 MR. JESSE: That's being constructed by EPA.
11 The Bureau project is on the road to Mintum, I guess or up towards the top of the pass.
11112 CHAIRMAN COOLEY: Okay. Pardon me. That one was built to increase
13 mineral production during World War II, I think?
14 MR. JESSE: Yes, sir.
15 CHAIRMAN COOLEY: Drain a number of mines?
16 MR. JESSE: The United States Bureau of Mines, I believe, constructed it and
17 that's why the federal government still owns it is because it was constructed to drain the mines
18 during World War II.
19 CHAIRMAN COOLEY: Is one of the tunnels substantially lower than the other
20 in elevation?
21 MR. JESSE: It is my understanding that the Yak Tunnel is lower in elevation but
22 it's not, I don't know substantially; I don't know how many feet, but it is at lower elevation.
023 CHAIRMAN COOLEY: Pardon me for interrupting,but I just find this part of
24 your report of very great interest.