WSP00433

• File Number: 8141.600.20
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project - Studies - Environmental Studies
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 4/16/1975
• Author: US DoI BoR
• Title: Final Environmental Impact Statement Volume 2 of 2, Pages XI-422 to XI-519
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: EIS

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C. W. MU1er
Dottie fox
J. Sterling Baxter, Jr.
Ruth Pope
Julia Bent

Aspen Valley Improvement Assn.
Roaring Fork Sierra Club
Pitkin County Commissioners
Aspen/Pitkin League of Women Voters
Herself (letter of June 11, 1974)

Response:

The Operating Principles, Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, stipulate the
minimum flow bypass, restrict diversion of certain creeks during
critical times for fish enhancement, and provide for the protection
of western slope water users. A commission c~eated under paragraph 19
of the Operating Principles sets up a me8D8 ~or the collection and
interchange of information, allows a method for the continued study of
Project operations, and recommends changes in the Operating Principles
to the end that it may be improved and responsive to new conditions.
Cooperative programs between Federal and State agencies who have an
interest in the waters, fisheries, natural scenery, and recreation on
the western slope are still in process. These agencies are reevaluating
the water requirementa under their respective jurisdictions. They
have an opportunity to present their recommendations to this commission.
Many of the physical features of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project have
been modified to more effectively meet the objectives set out in the
authorizing act.

7. Issue: The Bureau should cut down on the scope of the Fryingpan-
Arkansas Project so it will not throttle and kill off all the streams.
It appears the Bureau is trying to dry up all of the streams.

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Raised by:

Representing

.Joseph IIdwards
William J. Rose
*Tam Scott
*Stacy Standley
Nie1 C. Morgan

Pitkin County Commissioners
Fryingpan Valley Association
Colorado Rivers Council
Mayor of Aspen
Himself (letter of Hay 24, 1974)

Response:

The Operating Principles, Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, constitute a
contract between the signatory parties under whose guidelines the
Project facilities on the western slope are to be operated to
provide protection to the streams in the form of minimum flows.
Project diversions from the many tributaries of the Fryingpan River
are controlled to provide protection to the western slope water users
through the storage capacity of Ruedi Dam and Reservoir. Although this
protection is the primary purpose of the reservoir, it affords flood
protection, fish and wildlife enhancement, and recreation opportunities.

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XI-453