WSP05262

• File Number: 8146.400
• Description: Pueblo Dam - Reports
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 5/1/1972
• Author: US DoI BoR
• Title: Final Environmental Statement
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: EIS

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21. Haul roads within the reservoir take line will be located
where applicable to serve as recreation roads after con-
struction.

22. Pueblo Reservoir will be managed for a sport fishery with an
expectation of 90,000 man-days of fiShing annually. A
variety of fish species best adapted to the environmental
conditions will be stocked to provide a greatly improved
fishery. Such opportunities are presently unavailable to
fishermen.

23, The fish hatchery effluent will be treated to control the
quality and the taste, odor and color of the water released
into the Arkansas River. The specific type of treatment
facility to be used is presently still under consideration.

211. Upstream from the reservoir, a salt cedar-cottonwood bosque
growth is expected to become established. This would enhance
habitat for mourning doves, scaled quail, cottontails, and
songbirds, as well as provide much-needed food and cover for
deer. Management of this phreatophytic growth will be coordi-
nated with the Colorado Division of Game, Fish and Parks, and
the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife.

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25. About 16 miles of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad,
8.11 miles of Colorado State Highway 96, nearly 11 miles of
telephone lines, and 7 miles of powerlines required relocation
outside the reservoir impoundment area. The land now accom-
modating the railroad and highway was formerly used for
agricultural purposes. A total of 622.11 acres, about 10
percent in dry cropland use and 90 percent for grazing, were
taken out of productivity. However, most of the railroad
was relocated to the north on low quality grazing land within
the Pueblo Reservoir take line, and portions of the relocated
highway were also within the take line to the south of the
reservoir.

26.

Upon turning Pueblo Reservoir lands over to another agency
for administration, stipulations will be made in the transfer
documents, stipulating Bureau desires for future use of
reservoir facilities and adjacent land areas. This is to
ensure compatability of future uses with the natural setting
of Pueblo Reservoir.

27.

Should insect pests such as mosquitoes become a problem, the
administering agency will coordinate with appropriate local,
State or Federal agencies to secure a control program, con-
sistent with current regulations regarding type of control
methods that may be used.

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