WSP03949

• File Number: 8141
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 12/16/1975
• Author: Terence Brace
• Title: The History of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Prepared by Terence Brace
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Association. Prior to thiG all HorJ( H'n:; (lone i):i 'lolnnt'l"r:1 who

cave freely of their tiMe and money Has rnis0u th:'ou~~h contr::'-

llUtions.

In speskinc; of people who [;:1'/0 frB01y o~ their ti.l7lP

ana mon&y

;)a:'llian Uucy of, Pueblo shol)l<l be ","CO(.:n:' Z?l'.. : ~r.

Ducy furnished office space and 01'1'i<.:e oqUip!l1~'C1t for :':1'. C;r:1st

at his Steel city Ac;encios offic0 on !,;ain 3treot in Pueblo.

On, top of this financlaJ. outlay, 1'i1'. 9ucy wa::; 8.1so :J. very ir~-

portant fic;ure in the cn1;ire proc;rmu to acU.eve supplo~en1:;:?l

water.

June 23, 19l~7 mn:t"1<0d the d8'licntion of tbe ;':,).[: Thomp-

son Project and lr, attendence at thl::; cerclllon~' ~l':'re o1'.t'icio.ls

of the ','later Dcvelop!l1,mt Associtltlon, ~,".d Cll Pford stone ,;ir'-

actor of the Colo1'arlo ~{ater Conservs,tion :,o",rrl. At t hi, S tiJ~e

their people were able to a:t"ranf,e a wletinc with ::ichaoJ. Stra'.ls3,

CO:ll!llissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation ana h.vCJry patso:--" ilc-

At t.~is ~1\":}ct:i.l1(i
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it was decided that the overall cost of thfl Gunnj.s()'~-Ark::msas,
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and the amount of water to be diverted one million ocro feet

gional D:i.r~ctor of the Bureau 01' Heclm~atio!\.

was too large an undertakine; to accomplish because of th9 (lif-

ferences between the Sastern and Western Slopes, and the ~pper
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aasin states. The main concern by t:1t: Upper Jasin Sto.t0S a:1d

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Christy, p 411,.
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Chenoweth, p. 17.
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Christy, p. 44.