BOARD00744

• Board Meeting Date: 7/10/1973
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

the best we have been able to come up with at this time. and they are in
conformity with the operating principles. Based upon the recommendations
of the Division of Wildlife and the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wild-
life. particular points have been designated to effect these releases.
The operating principles merely state that 30 cubic feet.per second shall
be released as a minimum release from the collection poiht. The critical I
point is below the junction of the North Fork of the Fryingpan and the
Fryingpan. That is the real control point for the whole system. This
is equated into monthly flows. 200 cfs for instance. during the month
of June. 100 cfs during the month of July. 75 cfs during the month of
August, and so on. That amount of water has to reach that point. 'The
operating principles provide for a minimum release of 30 cfs at the
project diversion points. However. the minimum flows at the diversion
points will have to be increased at any time that the m1n1mum flow is
not met at the junction of the Fryingpan and the North Fork.

There are nine tributaries involved in the distribution of this 30 second
feet. The flows have been apportioned based to a large extent upon the
historic contribution of those streams to the main stream. Last Chance
Creek, a tributary of the North Fork is not included in the 30 second
feet. although it was originally intended to be. We have taken it out.
Actually. the minimum flow now is 33 second feet. rather than 30. Lime
Creek was never included in the original operating principles. A sepa-
rate appropriation has been made for it and that was not specified in
the operating principles. The appropriation was based upon the recom-
mendation of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife and the Division
of Wildlife.

We have specified continuous flows on down to the entry into Ruedi Res-
ervoir and then pick up a further flow below Ruedi Reservoir to carry
it on to the Roaring Fork. The operating principles do not carry the
flows beyond the point of release.

As I understand now. the Division of Wildlife would like to take another
look at the flows below Ruedi. These tributaries are rather minor. but
at times a considerable amount of water in the early part of the season
comes into the Fryingpan below the release point on Ruedi Reservoir.

There has been a suggestion made by the local people that those minimum I
flows at the collection point are insufficient and should be increased.
That is impossible at this point in history. After the long bitter
years of negotiating the operating principles for the project and the
long fight in Congress. I don't think this board wants to reopen the
matter again and try to negotiate some new minimum flows. To do so

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