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<br />O~19C3 <br /> <br />~;. <br />~.:.~.,~, <br />....... <br /> <br />copy <br /> <br />February 25, 1955 <br /> <br />Mr. John P. Elliott <br />Colorado Building <br />Denver 2, Colorado <br /> <br />Dear Mr. Elliott: <br /> <br />At ybur request, the engineering staff of the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board recently made an estimate of the water <br />production in the drainage area to be intercepted by a trans- <br />basin diversion from tributaries of the Eagle River as planned <br />and filed on by you in the State Engineer's office. To assist <br />in the study, you furnished us with a sketch showing the nature <br />and extent of the proposed facilities, drawn on prints of the <br />Mt. Jackson and Holy Cross topographic quandrangle sheets <br />which are published by the United States Geological Survey. <br /> <br />The sketch indicated a division of the collection <br />system into two sub-areas, the first of which comprises <br />practically the entire drainage-area above the gaging station <br />on Homestake Creek at Gold Park. The second sub-area is <br />adjacent to and generally north of the first, and its collection <br />system would' .extend to West Cross Creek and would discharge into <br />the collection system for the first sub-area. A tunnel under <br />the Continental Divide, extending from a reservoir on Homestake <br />Creek, could oonvey the water collected from either or both <br />sub-areas to Lake Fork, a tributary of the Arkansas River. <br /> <br />The first sub-area, as measured on the map, contained <br />approximately 32 square miles and the area of the second was <br />34 square miles. On the basis of records of stream flow at the <br />two gaging stations on Homestake Creek, one at Gold Park and <br />the other just above the mouth near Redcliff, it was estimated <br />that the water production would be the same for each of the <br />sub-areas. Due to vested water rights on the Colorado River <br />below the mouth oE the Eagle River, it was also estimated <br />that the runoff for the months of May, June and July only <br />