WSP03696

• File Number: 8281
• Description: Williams and Eagle River
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 10/15/1947
• Title: Reconnaissance Study of Williams River and Eagle River Basins
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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(e) In accordance with Section 1, of the 1944 Flood Control Act,
the Secretary will formally submit the interim reports to all affected
states and other agencies for review and comment. Upon receipt of
such comments, the report will be transmitted to the Congress.

Plans for Gunnison-Arkansas Proiect

29. Mr. Powell stated that work on the reports for the Gunnison-
Arkansas Project was scheduled as follows:

(a) November 3-6, 1947, a board of engineers from the Branch
of Design and Construction will review the estimates of.construction
cost.

(b) January 1, 1948, the status report will be completed and
transmitted from the Pueblo office.

(c) April 1948 - an interim report, aescribing a proposed
initial unit will be completed and transmitted from the Pueblo office,

30. Mr, Powell briefly described the plan for initial development to
be presented in the interim report. The plan involves diversion of 65,000
acre-feet of water in a period such as 1929-40, inclusive, from Frying Pan
River (Colorado River watershed) .to the. Arkansas River Basin; and a system
of regulating reservoirs, canals and power plants in the Arkansas watershed,
The primary purposes of the project are to furnish municipal water, supple-
mental irrigation supplies, and permit power development. .The tentatively
selected features and the estimated construction costs.involved in the initial
project are tabulated as follows (costs as of July 1947, rounded to nearest
$100,000): (Note:. Costs, fp".t'lY'8s, and sizes are tentative and subject to
change as investigation~ progress).

Feature

Frying fan.Diversion

Collection system

Tunnel through divide

Enlargement Sugar Loaf Reservoir

Feeder canals from Arkansas tributaries
to Sugar Loaf Reservoir

(l)Share of Replacement Storage

Subtotal

7

Estimated Cost

::iubtotals

$12,200,000
6,600,000
8,200,000

1,200,000

4,000.000

$32,200,000

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