WSP05166

• File Number: 8141
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 9/1/1959
• Title: Ruedi Dam and Reservoir Colorado Supplementing House Document No 187 83rd Congress 1st Session Report on the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Colorado with related documents and revision material
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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12. All lands acquired and held for project construction and
operation and water surfaces of project reservoirs will be open to
the public for recreational purposes, excepting those areas reserved
by the operating agency.

13. The project will be operated in such a manner that those in
eastern Colorado using project water imported from the Colorado River
basin for domestic purposes shall have preference over those claiming
or using water for any other purpose.

14. The project is to be operated in such a manner as to secure
the greatest benefit from the use and reuse of imported project waters
within project boundaries in the State of Colorado.

15. Any and all benefits and rights of western Colorado water
users in and to water stored in Green Mountain Reservoir, as described
and defined in Senate Document 80, 75th Congress, 1st session, shall
not be impaired or diminished by this project.

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16. The project, its operation, maintenance, and use shall be
subject to the provisions of the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact
of October 11, 1948 (Public Law 37, 81st Congress, 1st session) , and
the Colorado River Compact of November 24, 1922 (House Document 605,
67th Congress, 4th session). The project shall always be operated
in accordance with the laws of the State of Colorado, and in accord-
ance with the decrees of the state courts of Colorado ahd decisions
of the Colorado State Engineer.

17. The Colorado River Water Conservation District of the State
of Colorado shall acquire title to storage of water in Ruedi Reservoir
and any reservoir constructed in addition thereto, by appropriate
proceedings in the courts of the State of Colorado. The Southeastern
COlorado Water Conservancy District of the State of Colorado shall
likewise acquire title to the water required by the project for
diversion to the Arkansas Valley. The Secretary of the Interior
shall at any time after the authorization of the project have the
option to obtain or require the transfer to the United States of any
and all rights initiated or acquired by appropriation as herein set
forth. Provided, however, that the rights so taken shall be subject
to a beneficial use of such water as ~ be provided in the re~nt
contract or contracts, and subject to all the operating principles
herein set forth.

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18. No transmountain diversion of water shall ever be made
through the collection and diversion system of the Fryingpan-Arkansas
Project in excess of the quantitative limitations and cO!lditions
established by this document. Whenever, however, under the laws of
the State of Colorado there may be additional water available for

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