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<br />WATER RESOURCES PLANNING <br /> <br />C> <br />CJ1 <br />1', <br />CC> <br /> <br />Corps of Engineers studies of the Purgatoire River, Colorado, <br />were published as House Document No. 387, 78th Congress, 2nd Session, <br />1945, and House Document No. 325, 84th Congress, 2nd Session, 1956. <br />The Corps of Engineers recommended the construction and operation of <br />Trinidad Reservoir for flood control and irrigation. The Federal Power <br />Commission comments, by letters dated July 13, 1954 and May 13, 1963, <br />concurred in the Corps plan, since hydroelectric power facilities <br />could be installed in the future, without modification of the dam, if <br />they become economically justified. The Trinidad project was authorized <br />by the Flood Control Act of 1958 in accordance with recommendations con- <br />tained in House Document No. 325. <br /> <br />Current and Future Studies <br /> <br />The Bureau of Reclamation is scheduled to initiate a reconnaissance <br />study of the Sangre de Cristo Project in 1965. That project would de- <br />velop the power potential of the Arkansas River between the 0alida power <br />plant of the Fryingpan-Arkansas project and Canon City, Colorado. The <br />study will be completed in 1966. <br /> <br />POTENTIAL WATER RESOURCE DBVELOPMI!NTS <br /> <br />Authorized Plans <br /> <br />Authorized projects in the Upper Arkansas River Basin under the <br />jurisdiction of the Corps of lliGineers are the Trinidad Reservoir <br />located on the Purgatoire River near Trini~ad, Colorado; the Dodge City <br />local protection' project which consists of channel enlargement and <br />levees tlrrough Dodge City, Kansas; and the Cow Creek channel improve- <br />IIIent near Hutcilinson, Ktmsas. <br /> <br />The Fryingpan-Arkansas Project is an authorized irrigation, power, <br />and municipal water supply project of the Bureau of Reclamation. The <br />project involves the diversion of water from the Fryingpan River on the <br />western slope of thc Rocky Mountains in the Coloraao River drainaGe <br />under the Continental Divide to the Arkansas River Basin. Flows will <br />be diverted at an altitude of 10,000 feet and will emerge on the eastern <br />slope near Leadville, Colorado. Annual west slope diversions are about <br />69,000 acre-feet and will be utilized with flows of the Arkansas River <br />for power production at seven power plants located along the river. <br />Construction of the west slope features of the project has been initiated. <br />Authorized storage and power projects in the basin are summarized in <br />'.!'able 3. <br /> <br />- 9 - <br />