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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water will bEl availo.ble durinG th'3 yoar and invite j;hoir ro-

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quests for allocations. or course requests out number the amount
of water available and it becomes the Board's responsibility

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to "Equi tably Alloco. te" the alTailable WJl tel'. In 1973 the
snow pack permitted the o.llocation of 11,000 qcre-fee~ to
the District and requests were received from eleven entities
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for 23,322 acre-feet. Needless to say this gives the District
a difficult job so water is allocated to those people in Eastern
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Colorado having domestic purposes as the first priority.

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(14) Water contracted will be delivered at the outlet works of

Pueblo Reservoir and othar points agreed upon by the Dis trict.

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Water sold by the District, or furnished by the District, nor

may any water sold by the District, be sold by District users.

(15) The project can use and reuse waters withing the

boundaries
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of the dis tr:.ct. Other appropria ~ors do not havEl this

ThE, project invol ves a transmoun tain diversion of water

thus requiring r'3utures on both sidClS of the Sontinental Divide.

Water from the Colorado River B8.sin will be diverted for benefi-

cial and com:umptive uses in the Ark:l.nsas BlJ,sin in Colorado.

This importee, water together with native Arkansan aiver water
will provide the supplemental irrigation, munlcip,al, .and industrial

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Annuul Report, 1973, pp. 8, 9.
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Operating Principles or the ?ryingpan-Arkansas Project
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Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy Districts,
Contracts Be1;ween tIn Uni ted 3tates ''ind the Sou theas tern \-Ia tel'
Conservancf Distrlct, p. 7.
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Beise, p. 9.