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Show Rifle and Elk Creeks in western Colorado. Construction features will include the Rifle Gap Reservoir of 12,650 acre-feet capacity, a pumping plant, headworks and inlet channel, rehabilitation of existing works and construction of laterals and drains. Advance Planning The repayment contract between the Silt Water Conservancy District and the United States was executed on June 24, 1963, and is now awaiting court confirmation. Preparation of data for construction plans and specifications for Rifle Gap Dam and Silt Pump Canal is underway. e. Fryingpan-Arkansas Project The Fryingpan-Arkansas Project is located in central Colorado. The project will (a) divert through project works from the Roaring Fork River Basin in western Colorado to the Arkansas River Basin in eastern Colorado approximately 69,000 acre-feet of water per year; (b) divert through the existing works of the Twin Lakes Canal Company about 15,000 acre-feet of water per year in excess of that now being diverted by that company; (c) store the waters imported to the eastern slope, and, in addition, store eastern slope flood waters and winter flows averaging 50,000 and 93,000 acre-feet per year respectively. Supplemental irrigation water will be supplied for 280,000 acres of irrigated land in the Arkansas River Valley that do not now have an adequate water supply. Water will also be supplied for expanding municipal, domestic, and industrial purposes on both sides of the Continental Divide. The project will prevent a large part of the flood damages along the Arkansas River which presently occur between Pueblo, Colorado and the John Martin Reservoir. In accomplishing the above primary purposes of the project, the generation of hydroelectric energy will be provided at seven powerplants having a nameplate rating of 123,900 kilowatts. The Ruedi Dam and Reservoir costing about $13 million, a water storage facility on the Fryingpan River in western Colorado, will be constructed as a part of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, the over-all cost of which is about $170 million. The conservation and development of fish and wildlife has been specifically included as one of the purposes of the project. 59 |
