WSP05214

• File Number: 8141.700
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project - Annual Operating Plans and Reports
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 11/1/1989
• Author: US DoI BoR
• Title: Annual Operating Plan Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Colorado 1989 - 1990
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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The actual diversion for water year, 1989 was 36,520 acre-feet as
measured at the out 1 et porta 1 of Boustead Tunne 1. Of the
36,520 acre-feet of water at Boustead Tunnel, 350 acre-feet was
Busk-Ivanhoe, Inc., water transported for them under contract. The
maximum mean dai ly import through Boustead Tunnel was 604 ft3/s on
May 23, 1989. A senior call waS placed on the Colorado River on
July 19, 1989. Releases from Ruedi Reservoir were necessary to
replace Project diversions on August 4, 1989, and for out of priority
storage on July 19 and 20. Total volume of replacement water was
80 acre-feet (storage rep 1 acement of 53 acre-feet and divers i on of
27 acre-feet).

The yearly total imports, the accumulated imports to the Arkansas River,
the water used for Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Company exchange, and
the import water avai lable for allocations by the Northern Colorado
Water Conservancy District are shown ion table 4. The 18 years of
'accumulated imports total 800,300 :acre-feet for an average of
44,460 acre-feet per year. A plot'of tQe Boustead Tunnel imports during
water year 1989 is shown on exhibit 5.

The discharge records for all diversions in water year 1989 are shown in
appendix A.

D. Twin Lakes Reservoir & Canal Ccimpany/Fryingpan Arkansas Project
Exchange

On October 1, the Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Company (Company)
began bypassing water into the Roaring Fork River drainage in exchange
for water in Twin Lakes. The exchange followed the operating criteria
as shown in appendix B. The total amount of the exchange at Twin Lakes
was 1,700 acre-feet. The Company's acCount in Twin Lakes was never at
maximum storage due to the low runoff and the high demands on storage.
The monthly summary of the exchange is' also shown in appendix B along
with plots of the daily flows. '

E. Turquoise Lake

On September 30, 1988, 127,900 acre-feet of water was in storage
in Turquoi se Lake. Homestake Project ma i nta i ned thei r storage near
capacity throughout the year by meeting their demands from imports
through the Homestake Tunnel. Total imports from Homestake Tunnel were
26,770 acre-feet. In addition to the: Homestake imports, Busk-Ivanhoe
imported approximately 3,680 acre-reet of water through the
Carlton Tunnel throughout the year and! 350 acre-feet of water through
Boustead Tunnel (exhibit 6). The 4,030 acre-feet of imports of Busk-Ivanhoe
water was divided equally between the ,Pueblo Board of Water Works and
the City of Aurora. The Project imported 36,170 acre-feet of water
through the Boustead Tunnel during water year 1989.