BOARD00469

• Board Meeting Date: 5/12/1976
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD MEETING MINUTES
Holiday Inn
Pueblo, Colorado

May l2, 1976

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The Colorado Water Conservation Board met, pursuant to notice, at
9:00 a.m., Benjamin F. Stapleton, Chairman, presiding.

MR. .STAPLETON: We will call this regularly scheduled meeting of the
Colorado Water Conservation Board to order.

We have no minutes to come before us at this meeting, so we will go to
the first item on the agenda which is the report by the Bureau on the
status of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. Mr. Kregger, will you take
over, please.

MR. KREGGER: I am very pleased to be here and present a progress.report
on the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. I have put together a group of slides,
which I hope will give you some idea of the scope and purpose of the
project before we get into this business of where we1ve been, where we
are at the present time, and where we're going. So, if we can have the
lights out, we will go right into the slides.

(Slide) This is a map of the overall Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, which
as you can see extends from Ruedi Dam and Reservoir in the vicinity of
Basalt, Colorado on the Western Slope and through the Continental
Divide, down to Leadville, B4ena Vista, Salida, Canon City, Pueblo, and
the terminal point on the Arkansas Valley Condui~which is Lamar, Colo-
rado. .

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The first structure which you see in the upper left hand corner is Ruedi
Dam and Reservoir. This is a replacement storage facility, which was
necessary to assure service to senior downstream rights on the Colorado
River before we could even start the construction of the collection
system and any diversions to the Eastern Slope.

Basically, the purpose of the project is to divert water from the
tributaries of the Fryingpan and Roaring Fork into storage on the Eastern
Slope. As we come .down the project through the Sugar Loaf Dam, Mt.
Elbert Conduit, to generate some hydroelectric power and furnish storage
for downstream use. Also the municipal conduit, Fountain Valley Conduit.
The Fountain Valley Conduit is shown as having its diversion point in
Canon City and serving Colorado Sp~ings with laterals off to Fountain,
Security and Widefield. But in recent months, we have changed the plan.
The Fountain Valley Conduit will be started at the municipal outlet,
Pueblo to I'M," and run up along the west side of Ft. Carson with service
to Fountain, Security, Widefield and Colorado Springs en route.

The Arkansas Valley Conduit, the planning isn't all that firm at the
present time, but as shown it will extend down the Arkansas Valley to
Lamar with some laterals off tq va+ious other points along the route.

(Slide) Now, jumping back to the collection system where a good part