The Fryingpan-Arkansas Project provides water to the Arkansas River Basin and the cities of Aurora and Colorado Springs through a series of diversions structures on the western slope that take water through the Charles H. Boustead Tunnel and the Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel. The project is managed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District. Currently the project diverts about 58,000 acre feet of water annually.
Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Website - Bureau of Reclamation
Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Website - Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District
Ruedi Water and Power Authority
City of Aspen - owner of the Ruedi hydroelectric power plant
Ruedi Reservoir resources - Roaring Fork Conservancy
Map of Fryingpan-Arkansas Project
Below a map of the collection systems for the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project (red dashes) and the Twin Lakes Transmountain Diversion System (blue dashes).
