Sidebar by Ed Quillen
Water – June 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Further Reading:
The history of the Colorado-Big Thompson project is covered in The Last Water Hole in the West, by Daniel Tyler, published in 1992 by University Press of Colorado. Tyler says it’s not an authorized history, but it sure reads like one.
There’s nothing like that for the Fryingpan- Arkansas Project, but there’s a relatively short but decent history on the Southeastern website:
www.secwcd.org/History%20%and%20Description.htm
The description of the proposed Gunnison- Arkansas project is from “Project Planning Report No. 7-8a, 49-90,” issued in June 1948 by the Bureau of Reclamation of the U.S. Department of the Interior, entitled Interim Report: Gunnison- Arkansas Project, Colorado. Many thanks to Nancy Gauss for finding it in the depths of the Savage Library at Western State College in Gunnison.