WSP02824

• File Number: 8141.700
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project - Annual Operating Plans and Reports
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 11/1/1982
• Author: US DoI BoR
• Title: Annual Operating Plan Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Colorado 1982 - 1983
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN
FRYINGPAN-ARKANSAS ProJECl', cnWRAOO
WATER YEAR 1982 OPERATIONS
WATER YEAR 1983 OUTIOOK

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I. GENERAL

This is the fourteenth Arumal Operating plan for the Fryingpan-Arkansas
Project. The project is essentially cx:mplete and consists of federally
owned dams, reservoirs, conduits, tunnels, plmlping plants, a pumped-
storage pcMerplant, electric transuission lines, substations, and other
facilities. Features yet to be cx:mpleted are the Fountain Valley
Conduit, Mt. Elbert P1.mtped-Storage PCMeI'plant - Unit 2, and the r€llOte
control equipTent of the North Side and South Side C'.ollection Systems.
As indicated on the enclosed project map, these features are located in
the Fryingpan River and Hunter creek drainage areas of the Colorado
River Basin and in the lIrJtansas River Basin, central and southeastern
Colorado.

These extensive works will provide orderly and beneficial use of water
for irrigation, hydroelectric power generation, municipal and industrial
uses, flocxl control, and other incidental benefits, such as fish and
wildlife preservation and recreation.

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This report provides a basis for increased a:>operation and understanding
amon;j' all concerned with the a:>ordinated operation of the project. The
report has two main parts. The first part reports the results of actual
operations in water year 1982 (October 1, 1981 to September 30, 1982).
The second part presents operating plans for water year 1983 (October 1,
1982 to Septanber 30, 1983).

The most probable CX)ndition of water supply was used in establishing the
general plan for future operations. This condition of water supply was
derived by statistical analysis of historical water supply data. After
review of the IIOnthly snow surveys prepared by the Soil Conservation
Service, the plan will be revised based on the projected water supply.

The Fryi.ncnY'..n-lIrkansas project was authorized under Public Law 87-590,
87th Congress, H.R. 2206, on August 16, 1962. This law provides that
the project will be operated under the Operating Principles adopted by
the State of Colorado April 30, 1959, as amended December 30, 1959, and
December 9, 1960. These Operating Principles were published by the 87th
Congress, 1st Session, as House D:>cument 130.

II. ProJEcr FEATURES IN OPERATION DURING WATER YEAR 1982

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In water year 1982, project features in operation were Ruedi Dam and
Reservoir; Sugar roaf Dam and Turquoise Lake; 'IWin Lakes Dam and 'IWin
Lakes; Mt. Elbert Forebay; Mt. Elbert Pumped-Storage Paolerplant; Mt.
Elbert Conduit; Pueblo Dam and Reservoir; and Charles H. Boustead,
Hunter, Carter, M:>rm:m, South Fork, Chaptan, Nast, and CUnningh"'Ill
Tunnels. Ilalfmoon creek diversion was put into operation in 1982, and
along with the sixteen (16) west slope diversions, operated for the full