WSP02600

• File Number: 8141.100
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project - Project Description
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/1975
• Author: Terence Brace
• Title: The History of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Project Overview

2~

0690

It wa. necessary to obtain 1,500'signapures of landholders

to have the district f.ormed.
was very popular in Southeast
to obtain the required number

Although, the Fryingpan-Arkansas

Colorado 1t now became difficult
80
of signatures. In the spring

of 1958 the required number of signatures were achieved and
, 81 .
presented to the Court. Judge Cabibi on April 29, 1958

ern Colorado Water Conservancy

to be r'ormed and the Southeast-
82
District became reality.

authorized the taxing district

After the formation of the Southeasterp Colorado
Water Conservancy District, Charles Bqustead became the first
General Manager-Executive Director of the District and Selby
83
Young or El Paso County became the first president. Previous
to this, Mr. Boustead had been President of the Ark~neas Valley
Water Development Association.
When testimony in Congress tirst began in 1953 for
the project there was little progress:because the thrust of the
project had been for agricultural water, supplemental water
for agriculture only. During this period there was a surplus
of agricultural pro~ots and many people felt that, this supple-
mental water would just compound the, problem. As a r~sult of
this, other uses of the supplemental water began to be stressed.

tlO
Christy, p. 55.
81
Hoag, p. 156.
82
Christy, p. 54.
83
Hoag, p. 1 56 .