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<br />3 <br /> <br /> <br />0:1935 <br /> <br />the Telll1essee Pass Tunnel down Tennessee Creek and Tennessee Fork of <br />the Arkansas into the Arkansas River. An estimated 10,000 acre-feet <br />of water will be diverted annually. <br />4. The project will also divert water from the Homestake Creek <br />drainage into the Lake Fork of the Arkansas River watershed. ,Flows <br /> <br />from French Creek, Fancy Creek, Missouri Creek, Sopris Creek, aDd the <br /> <br />East Fork 8Jl.d Middle Fork of Homestake Creek will be diverted. The <br /> <br />water will be transported via canals and tUlll1els to a proposed storage <br /> <br />reservoir to be constructed at the site of the present Homestake Lake. <br /> <br />A concrete arch dam 300 feet high and 1,300 feet long will be con- <br /> <br />structed across Homestake Lake. The reservoir wilJ.have a capacity of <br /> <br />'4,000 acre-feet. Water from the reservoir will be transported via a <br /> <br /> <br />'-mile tUlll1el under the Continental Divide into Mill Creek, whence it <br /> <br /> <br />will flow into the Lake Fork of the Arkansas River. An estimated <br /> <br />54,000 acre-feet of water will be diverted annually. The locations <br /> <br /> <br />of project features are shown in diagram 1. <br /> <br /> <br />5. Diversions will begin in April and cease, in most years, in <br /> <br /> <br />August because of prior water rights farther downstream. <br /> <br />FISHERY SECTION <br /> <br />General Statement <br /> <br />Character of streams and lakes <br /> <br />6. Generally speaking, Homestake Lake and the streams in the <br />project area possess the beau,ty and other attractive qualities found <br />in typical high mountain trout streams and lakes. For the most part <br /> <br />-4 <br /> <br />1. '" ; ~ <br /> <br />. <br />, , <br />, <br />