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<br />'\ <br /> <br />I~ <br /> <br />.-~ <br /> <br /><t:-ir' (..... <br />... I ..:lo V. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />- DEPART;.lENT OF TilE ARm <br />ALBUQUERQUE DISTIUCT, CORPS OF ENGINEERS <br />P. 0, BOX 1580 <br />ALBUQUERQUE, NEW NEXICO 87103 <br /> <br />FLOOD CONTROL FRYINGPAN-ARKANSAS PROJECT <br />EASTERN SLOPE FEATURES <br /> <br />INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />1. PURPOSE.- In 1948 the Albuquerque District, Corps of Engineers, <br />furnished the Bureau of ReclamatIon an estimate of flood control benefits <br />and evaluation of flood control operations and storage for Pueblo Dam <br />and Reservoir. Results of the analysis were preserited in the Bureau's <br />report Initial Development, GW111ison-Al'kansac Project, ROaT,ing Fork <br />Divel'sion, Colorado, dated January 1950, The project, now knOlm as the <br />Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, was authoriz.ed by P,L, 87-590, In correspond- <br />e"ce elated 12 "pr11 1963 to the Corps, the llurcau stateel that revie\\' of <br />'the ~\bo\fc-l..l~s(:l'ib(2d \'.\atel'ial 1,'i'0ul...!. be. I"2.<\'.1este...l ,...:he~1 :fir.al plo::.'~.s ....:ere. <br />prep.1reel The request "as eonfin'eel, in subsequent correspondence dated <br />12 Septemher 19(,3 from the Regional Dil'ectar of Region 7 of the Bureau <br />of Reclulllntioll. ny letter dated 13 Atlgust 1968, the Regional Director <br />requested that the evaluation anel repor~ be exp3neleel io include the <br />f100el control aspects of all of the eastern slope features of the <br />jFryingpan-Arkansas Project. <br /> <br />2. SCOPE.- The' major east slope features of the Fryingpan-Arkansas <br />Project incluele Sugar Loaf Oam (Turquoise Lake), Elbert canal and for~bay; <br />T"in Lakes Dam; O'tero Canal; Clear Creck Reservoir; Pueblo Dam and Res- <br />ervoir; and the Arkansas Valley ~funicip31 pipelinc, All of the features <br />~ _ _ _ _ _ _ excep!_ ~u~12..1~Dam ill!.<l Bes~vol1:_ an~ _tll~ll):J,!lJlsaJ;ElL~y-~hlJlicipal _pipe~ <br />line "ould be constructed above Canon City "hich is the upstream limit <br />of the Arkansas River Basin susceptible ~o significant mainstem flooding. <br />Therefore, the flood control effect of these features, regardless of <br />their size, would be negligible, The Pueblo Dam and Reservoir "ill con- <br />trol about one-third of the Arkansas River Basin above Las Animas and <br />"ill ha'le major flood control effects. The i\rkansas Valley Hunicipal <br />pipeline "ou1d have no effect on flooel control" Since the Pueblo Dam <br />and Reservoir project is the only feature "hich "ould have significant <br />flood control effects, the remainder of this report will be limited to <br />the flood control operations and flood control benefits of that feature. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />'- <br /> <br />3, PROJECT DESCRIPTION. - The dam "ould be a ~rete graviy <br />structure locateu on the Arka~,~"_RJ..lLJ?~ahout.._6_mi1es_upstrealll_from <br />Puelilo, Colo. The location is shOlm on plate L The Arkansas River <br />Bas1n 11\ Co1oraJo is also shm<n on plate \, The 0'57,\l()\l acre-foot <br />multipurpose reserVOlr would proviele for regulation of Arkansas River <br />flows including 69,200 acre-feet of water importeel from the upper Colorado <br />