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<br />.\ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />N <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />/Yo <br />:9E>...s l: <br />U'J"e/ <br /> <br />1O-inch pipeline to Asher <br />Canyon Reservoir, Penrose <br />Reservoir, or Broadmoor <br />Water- Treatment Plant <br /> <br />Figure 11.--Penrose-Rosemont watershed, Colorado Springs <br />mountain collection system. <br /> <br />The Homestake and Blue River Projects are significant only to the Colo- <br />rado Springs system in the Arkansas River basin, but the Fryingpan-Arkansas <br />Project and the Twin Lakes Project are significant in other parts of the <br />Arkansas River basin. For this reason, the latter two projects are discussed <br />separately elsewhere in this report. <br /> <br />The collection system of the Homestake Project intercepts the headwaters <br />of the Eagle River about l60 miles west of Colorado Springs (fig. l3). The <br />project is a joint venture of the cities of Colorado Springs and Aurora. <br />Colorado Springs average share of the yearly diversion is l2,900 acre-feet. <br />Water is diverted from Fancy Creek, French Creek, Sopris Creek, Missouri <br />Creek, Homestake Creek, and East Fork Homestake Creek. Phase II of this <br />project would extend the collection system to intercept Whitney Creek, Fall <br />Creek, Cross Creek, and East and West Forks Cross Creek. The water is <br />collected in Homestake Reservoir (capacity 43,300 acre-feet), and then moved <br />through the Continental Divide in the Homestake Tunnel. Homestake Tunnel <br />discharges into Lake Fork Arkansas River, which in turn flows into Turquoise <br />Lake (Sugarloaf Reservoir). <br /> <br />19 <br />