In Re Application For Water Rights of Mills E. Bunger

The four applications for conditional water rights set out rough outlines of a complex and massive water collection, diversion, and storage plan called the Gunnison-Arkansas Project. It was proposed to collect and divert water from the watersheds of the Roaring Fork and Crystal rivers in Pitkin County (in Division No. 5) to the watershed of the Gunnision River in Gunnison County (in Division No. 4), to collect and divert additional water from the watershed of the Gunnison River and store it in a number of reservoirs to be constructed in the watershed of the Gunnison River; and finally, to transport a portion of the water so collected to the watershed of the Arkansas River east of the continental divide.