WSP01571

• File Number: 8200.766
• Description: Gunnison River General
• State: CO
• Basin: Gunnison
• Water Division: 4
• Date: 12/1/1967
• Author: USGS
• Title: Review of Waterpower Classifications - Gunnison River Drainage Basin - Colorado - Upstream from Mouth of Tributary North Fork
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Uncompahgre Project - Gunnison Diversion Dam and Tunnel.--
The Gunnison Diversion Dam is located on the Gunnison River in
tIle SW~ sec. 10, T. 49 N., R. 7101'., N.M.P.M., Colorado, about
a quarter of a mile upstream f=om the Black Canyon of the
Gunnison National Monument. It di verts releases from Taylor
Park Dam into the Gunni~o~ T\L~~~1, which has a capacity of
1,000 cfs. It extends southwesterly 5.8 miles to the
Uncompahgre River drainage basin. Construction was completed
in January 1912, by the then Reclamation Service.

Uncompahgre Project - Taylor Park Dam and Reservoir.--
Taylor Park Dam is located on the Taylor River at the upper
end of a canyon, about 20 miles upstream from the mouth, The
dam is an earthfill structure with a structural height of 206
feet, hydraulic height of 153 feet, and crest length of 675
feet. The capacity of the reservoir is 106,200 acre-feet and
the area ia 2,040 acres at the maximum normal water surface
elevation of 9,330 feet. Construction of the dam was completed
in 1937 by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

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In 1932, the operation and maintenance of the Uncompahgre
Project was traneferred to the Uncompahgre Valley Water Users
Association.

Bostwick Park Project.--This project was authorized as a
participating project with the Upper ColoradO River Storage
Project by Public Law 88-568, September 2, 1964, (78 Stat.852),
and is now under construction. Unused flows of Cimarron Creek,
a tributary of the Gunnison River, will be developed for irri-
gation, recreation, &,,1 sport fishery enhancement. Storage
regulation will be provided by the Silver Jack Reservoir to be
constructed on Cimarron Creek. Released storage vater and
usa'ble natural flows will be diverted from the creek into the
exieting Cimarron Canal, which has its point of diversion in
the SEt sec. 5, T. 46 N., R. 6101'., N.M.P.M., Colorado, about
2.5 miles downstream from the site of the Silver Jack Dam, The
project will provide 11,100 acre-feet of vater annually for
the irrigation of 6,110 acres of land, located mostly in
Bostwick Park, T. 49N., andT. 50N., R. 8101'., N.M.P.M.,
Colorado, adjacent to and higher than those of the Uncompahgre
Project completed in 1908.

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