WSP05643

• File Number: 8141.700
• Description: Arkansas River Projects - Fry Ark
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 1/1/1961
• Author: US Congress
• Title: Fry-Ark 1961 Operating Principles
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

,0 a m~n~s ere J ~ e O~~~C s
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accordance ~Iith the la\o/s of the State or Colorado and S!l!'d stipulation, and

more particularly by the following pr.inciples ,and procedures which this Court
does hereby, pursuant to sai~ stipulation, inqlude in the decrees awarded to

~he Basalt Project, and the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project to ~/it:

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1. That th~ demand on the.~aters available under such decrees

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'shall be. allocated in the following sequ~nce:

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. a. For diversion to the Arkansas Valley tl)rouph t~e.
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collection system and'the facilities of the Fryingpan-Ark
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Project in an amount not exceeding an aG!:r~grite : of' lto"I,:.

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feet of water in any year, but not to exceed a totnl acgr.
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2,352,800 acre feet. in any period of thirty-four consecutiv~'years
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reckoned. in continuing progressive series startipg with the first

full year of diversions, both limitations herein being exclusiye of
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Roaring Fork exchanges as provided in (c) beloH, and exclusi vA::k . .

of diversions for the Dusk-Ivanhoe decrec; and ~Iith thc fur~~nd

absolute limitation that in ol'der to protect e>:isting and fuit,j"I>e .
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beneficial uses of ~/ater in \-1estel'n Colorado, includinr. refirca-

tional and fishing values, the State Engineer shall so regulate the

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. transmountain diversions above referred to, to the end that no.

..diversions shall be made which will reduce the remaining aggregate.

. stream flo</s to less than either of the folloHing minimum standards:

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(1) The Fryingpan collection system at the points of diversion

collectively, exclusive of Lime Cl'eek:'15 c.f',s, October 1 through

March 31; 30 c,f,s, April 1 through Se?tember 30.

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(2) Near Norrie (immediately beloH the junction of North

Fork and Fryinepan River): 30 c,f.s~ October 1 throueh l'larch 31;

100 c.f,s,.April 1 through April 30; 150 c,f.s. May 1 through

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