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

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for the accomplishment of said purpose shall be incorporated
in, and made a part of any proj ect plans for the exportation of
water from said natural basin in Colorado.

8. Project diversions from Lime Creek shall be made only in
the months of May and June of each year, unless the Colorado RIver Water
Conservation Distnct s hall. by written commUnlCatlOn, advis e the Colo-
rado State engineer that additional diverslOns can be made.

9. The respective decrees which may be or have been awarded
to the parties hereto as a part of the Fryingpan-Arkansas proj ect and Basalt
proj ect shall be administered by the proper officials of the State of Colorado
in accordance with the applicable laws of the State of Colorado, and with
the following principles and procedures, to wit:

(1) That the demand on the waters available under such decrees
s hall be allocated in the following sequence:

(a) For diversion to the Arkansas Valley through the
collection system and the facilities of the Fryingpan-
Arkansas project in an amount not exceeding an aggregate
of 120,000 acre-feet of water in any year, but not to
exceed a total aggregate of 2,352,800 acre-feet in any
period of 34 consecutive years reckoned in continuing
progressive series starting with the first full year of diver-
sions, both limitations herein being exclusive of Roaring
Fork exchanges as provided in (c) below, and exclusive of
diversions for the Busk-Ivanhoe decree; and with the further
and absolute limitation that in order to protect existing
and future beneficial uses of water in western Colorado,
including recreational and fishing values, the State engineer
shall so regulate the transmountain diversions above refer-
red to, to the end that no diversions shall be made which
will reduce the remaInmg aggregate streamflows to less
. than either of the following minimum standards:

(i) The Fryingpan collection system at the points of
diversion collectively, exclusive of Llme Creek: IS c. f. s.
October 1 through March 31; 30 c.f. s. April 1 through
September 30.

(iiJ Near Norrie (Immediately below the junction of
North Fork and Fryingpan RIver): 30 c.f.s. October* 1
through March 31; 100 c.f.s. April 1 through April 30;
ISO c.f.s. May 1 through May3l; 200 c.f.s. June 1
through June 30; 100 c. f. s. July 1 through July 31;

*Page 3 of House Document 130.

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