WSP07057

• File Number: 8141.600.20
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project - Studies - Environmental Studies
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 4/16/1975
• Author: US DoI BoR
• Title: Final Environmental Impact Statement Volume 1 of 2, Pages IX-34 to Appendix
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: EIS

OPERATING PRINCIPLES, FRYINGPAN -ARKANSAS PROJECT

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ADOPrED BY THE STATE OF COLORADO, APRIL 30, 1959

(As Amended December 30, 1959, and December 9, 1960)

The construction and operation of the project involve the diversion
of water from the headwaters of the Fryingpan River and other tributaries
of the Roaring Fork River to the Arkansas River Basin. The project
contemplates--
(a) The maximum conservation and use of water;
(b) The protection of western Colorado water uses, both existing
and potential, in accordance.with the declared policy of the State
of Colorado; and
(c) The preservation of recreational values.
In order to accomplish such purposes, the project shall be operated
by the United States in compliance with the Federal reclamation laws,
the luws of the State of Colorado relating to the appropriation, use,
or distribution of water, and the following operating principles:
1. As used herein:
(a) "Project" means that certain enterprise planned and
designed by the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the
Interior, for the transmountain diversion of water from the
headwaters of the Fryingpan River and other tributaries of the
Roaring Fork River to the basin of the Arkansas River, together
with all of its appurtenant works and facilities in both eastern
snd western Colorado.
(b) "Eastern Colorado" means that portion of the State of
Colorado lying within the natural drainage basin of the Arkansas
River.
(c) "I-Iestern Colorado" means that portion of the State of
Colorado lyin~ within the natural draina~e basin of the Colorado
River and served by diversions made from the Colorado River,
or its tributaries, above its confluence with the Gunnison River.
(d) "Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District" means
that entity created to contract for payment to the United States
of an appropriate portion of project cost allocated to certain
vater uses in eastern Colorado.
(e) "Colorado River Water Conservation District" means that
entity created by Colorado Revised Statutes 1953, 149-8, as
amended.
(f) "Southwestern Water Conservation District" means that
entity created by Colorado Revised Statutes 1953, 149-9, as
amended.
(g) "Ruedi Reservoir" means the reservoir presently planned
for construction on the Fryingpan River above the town of Basalt
as part of the project.
(h). "Ashcroft Reservoir" means not only the reservoir contem-
plated for construction on Castle Creek, a tributary of the
Roaring Fork River, but also, unless the context requires other-
wise, any other reservoir that may be constructed in the Roaring
Fork Basin above the town of Aspen in lieu of that reservoir.

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