WSP02485

• File Number: 8141.700
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project - Annual Operating Plans and Reports
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 11/1/1977
• Author: US DoI BoR
• Title: Annual Operating Plan Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Colorado 1977 -1978
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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May and four days late in May when downstream requirerrents necessitated
bypassing all the streamflow. Water was also diverted for twJ days in
late July when rainstonns increased the streamflow above the minimum
bypass requirements.

The total diversion through the Charles H. Boustead Turmel in 1977 was
11,418 acre-feet Which included 10,814 acre-fe$t of direct diversions
and 604 acre-feet of seepage. The source of the diversions is as follows:
Sawyer Gulch, 5 percent; Chapman Gulch, 14 percent; South Fork, 26
percent; Fryingpan River, 41 percent; Lily Pad, 3 percent; and Ivanhoe
Creek, 11 percent.

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The Fryingpan-Arkansas Canroission net with re~resentatives of the Bureau
of Reclamation, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Forest Service,
and Colorado Division of Wildlife on May 10, ~972, and discussed the
distribution of minimum fishery bypass flows on the collection system as
based on the Operating Principles. The Bureau of Reclamation proposed
that bypass fish flows not be required at Granite, South Cunningham,
Lily Pad, and Sawyer Creek diversions as these creeks had dried up
during the previous year. The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
stated that it had written a letter on October 19, 1964, suggesting that
the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project forego fish bypass flows at the above-
rrentioned diversion points.

Those attending the rreeting agreed to these oPerating criteria, and the
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife's letter of May 11, 1972, to the .
Chairman of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Corrroission reconm:mded that the
Bureau of Reclamation forego fish bypass flows at Granite, Lily Pad, and
Sawyer Creek diversion points. Therefore, the following bypass requirements
were used during the 1977 operation:

Diversion Point

Fis~ry Bypass
Requi3enent
.ft /s

Ivanhoe Creek
Lily PadSawyer Creek
Olapnan Gulch
South Fork
Fr:yingpan River

2
o
o
3
6
12

'lbtal

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The State of Colorado, acting through the State Water Conservation
Board, initiated filings in Auqust 1973 for instream use of these fish
bypass flows as shown above, and the Water Court in Water Division No. 5
awarded. the Board a water right with a priority date of July 12, 1973.

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