WSP07770

• File Number: 8141
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 3/6/1952
• Author: Commissioner BoR
• Title: Letter from commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation to Secretary of Interior transmitting Report and Letter requesting Comments of the State of Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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FRYINOPANcARKANSA8'PROJECT,.COLORADO

average flows in the Roaring Fork River at the head of the propo!ed Aepen
Re&ervoir in a quantity proportionate to the respective natural contributions of
those streams from which diversions are made to the natural flow of the Roaring
Fork River. The recommended average flows above mentioned are flows in
quant.ities equal to tho~e recommended as a minimum at the head of the Aspen
Reservoir according to the following schedule submitted by the United States
FiRh and Wildlife Service and the Colorado Game and Fish Commission:

AverSlZe Acre-feet Averal!:e Acre-feet
Month se(,()Dd- (In thou- Month second. (In thou_
feet sands) reot sand~)
Ortober___________.un______ " , 7 J\.fay________________________ 100 ..,
Novernbcr________________o___ J5 ',I Jnnen.n.___n________n_nn ,'" 7.'
DeC'ember__._.___.n_._______ 29 '-' July____.__..____.____________ '00 '.2
'''"'',..mumum__m,1 26 l.6 AUO':1I5t n___n__n___nn____ MI S.'
Febrnary_n_n____..__.______ " '-' Seopteomber____________________ H. 2.tI
1farch__n_._H_____n____n__ " l.!'j --
AprIL.____nnn_oo______n__ M 3.' TotaL_n__noon_._.___ ____nn__ 40.9

In maintaining the abo....e averages, at no time shall the flow be reduced below
].') c. f. fl. during the months of August to April, inclusiYc, or below 60 c. f. s. during
the months of May to July, inclusive, pro....iding the natural flow during said period
is not. l('s5 than theRe amollnts. The obligation to supply the minimum strea.m
flow as set forth in the above ta.ble on the Roaring Fork Hiver shall, to the extent.
of 3.000 acre-feet Bllnuall:'o', be 1\ project obligation to be supplied from any waters
di\"erted from t.he south tributaries of Hunter Creek, Lime Creek, Last Chance
Creek, or any of them.
The Twin Lakes Reservoir & Callal Co. shall not. be required to refrain from
diverting water under its exist.ing decrees from the Roaring Fork River except to
the extent that a like Quantit.y of replacement water is furnished to said compauy
without. charge therefor thrnllgh and by means of project diversions.
If by rea.son of storage capacit.y in the Aspen Re..~ervoir. the Twin Lakes Reser-
voir & Canal Co. derives addit.ional waLer or other beneflts or advallt81l;eS it would
noL have realized had this project not been constructed, then nothing -herein con~
tained shall prevent the project from making appropriate charges for such water
or other benefits or advantages.
11. All lands acquired for project construction and operation and water sur-
faces of project f('scn'oirs will be open to the public for recreational purposes,
excepting those areas reserved by t.he operating agency.
12. The project. will be operated in such R manner t.hat those in eastern Colorado
using project water imported from the Colorado Ri....er Basin for domestic pUr~
poses shall have preference over tho~e claiming or using water for any other pur~
pose. .
13. The project is to be operat.ed in sllch a manner as to secure the greatest
benefit from the uee a.nd reuse of imported project .....aters within project bound6.rie~
in the Stat.e of Colorado.
14. Any and all benefit.s a.nd rights of western Colorado water users in and to
water stored in Green Mountain Resen'oir, as described and defined in Senate
Document 80, Seventy-fifth Congress, first session, shall not be impaired or
diminished by this project.
.. 15. The project, its operation, maintenance, Bnd use shall be subject to the
provisions of the upper Colorado Ri....er Basin compact of October 11, 1948
(Public Law 37, Blst Cong.. 1 sess.), the Colorado Ri....er compact of No\'ember 24,
1922 (H. Doc. 605, 67th Cong., 4th 5ess.), and the Boulder Canyon Project Act
of December 21, 1928 (45 Stat.. 1057-1064). In the event any curtailment of use
of Colorado River water in the State of Colorado is necessary to satisfy the pro-
visions of the Colorado River compact or the upper Colorado River Basin earn.
pact, then the diversions by the project for use in eastern Colorado shall be
curt.ailed before there is any curtailment of the right to store water in Aspen
Re~ervoir in & quant.ity not in e:tce!'ls of the capacity of that reRervoir (or uee in
west.ern Colorado in accordance with these operating principlca:.
16. The Secret.ary of the Interior shall at any time have the option to obtain or
require the tran!'lfer to the United States of any and 811 rights initiated or.a:equired
by the appropriation or use of water through the works of the project in eastern
Colorado, e:rcept vested rights to present appropriations; provided, however, thai
the _ title so 'aken shall be subject to a beneficial use o( such water as may be