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~~,,' ."-' ,~ UNITED STATES DEi' ART!.lEllT OF TIlE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE REGION TWO OMAHA, NEBRASKA iO~3 September 14, 1949 Memorandum To: Regional Director From: Acting Chief Recreation Planner Subjectr Statement on the Recreational Aspects of the Initial Phase of Development, Potential Gunnison-Arkansas Project Reference is made to letter of September 2, 1949, from the Bureau of Reclamation acknowledging receipt of our August 30, 1949, statement on the Recreational Aspects of the Potential Gunnison- Arkansas Project covering the Initial Phase of the Development as well as the e:xpansion plan called the Maximum Gravity Div",rsion. The Bureau now indicates that our statement should have been confined. to the Initial Phase of the Development as its purpose is for inclusion ~ith their report on the initial stage to the Colorado Policy and Review Committee. Since the first phase is planned as a self-sufficient unit and is independent of further con- struction, we feel that this portion of the potential development can be treated as a separate analysis and is extracted accordingly from our over-ill study. It is our understanding that the proposed Initial Development as no" planned includes the follOWing major project fcature~: l. A collection system on the west slope involving the construction of some 20 miles of conduits and tunnels in the Upper Fryinepan River a~d Hunter Creek watersheds of the Colorado River Basin for diversion of 60,000 acre-feet of water annually. 2. A diversion tunnel approximately 6 miles long of 800 second-feet capacity through the Continental Divide. 3. On the east slope a system for storing, distributing, and regulating the flow of diverted waters through po~er canals, diversion canals, and reservoir enlargements at Turquois (Sugarloaf) and ~tin Lakes. Existing Clep~ Creek Reservoir would be utilized as an afterbay for a proposed power plant, and a new reservoir would be created at Pueblo