BOARD01683

• Board Meeting Date: 5/12/1967
• Description: Agenda, Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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NR. STAPLETON:

NR. OGILVIE:

"Gentlemen, ,...e'll call the meeting to
order.

We'll now turn to the 'Status Report on
the Fryingpan-A~'ansas Project', and I'll
turn the meeting back over to Jim Ogilvie.
Jim."

"Thank you very much, Nr. Chairman. I
have some slides which I will project 'and
e~~lain as I go along with respect to the
Fryingpan-Arkansas project, particularly
noting the progress we are making, and with
some further discussion and an opportunity for
questions, I hope, at the end if we have time.

(l~. Ogilvie also used a screen and slides
to illustrate his presentation).

This is a very brief picture of the
project, starting on the west slope with the
Fryingpan River, going westerly towards
Glenwood Springs to meet the Roaring Fork and
the Colorado: Ruedi Reservoir, a replacement
reservoir on the west slope: the west slope
collection system: the high tributaries of
the Fryingpan River ,...hich is the source of
water for the Fryingpan project: the Continen-
tal Divide tunnel crossing the Continental
Divide at an elevation of 10,000 feet: and
thence to the headwaters of the Arkansas and
Turquoise Lake, which is the first reservoir
of the project: down through a power canal to
~...in Lakes and a power system, which I will
explain in more detail; on down through
another canal to Clear Creek Reservoir which
is the present storage for municipal water for
the city of Pueblo: and thence on down the
Arkansas River past Salida on through the
Royal Gorge to Canon City and into pueblo
Reservoir, which is the principal storage for
the project. The area that you see in green
on this chart is that area comprising the
Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy Dis-
trict of some 280,000 irrigated acres. The
Fryingpan-Arkansas Project's principal pur-
pose, of course, is to supply a supplemental