Representative Peter H. Dominick celebrates the passage of legislation authorizing the construction of the Frying Pan-Arkansas Project with fellow Colorado congressmen in 1962, 1962

Congressman Dominick (R-Colo.) stands with other members of Colorado's congressional delegation in an unidentified location. The congressmen all hold frying pans to signify passage of Public Law 87-590 (77 Stat. 393) in August, 1962, which authorized the construction of the Frying Pan-Arkansas water reclamation project. The project, which is overseen by the United States Department of Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, created a transmountain, transbasin diversion of water from the Frying Pan and Roaring Fork rivers on Colorado's Western Slope to the Arkansas River on Colorado's Eastern Slope in order to bring water to the population of the Front Range. From left to right are Representatives J. Edgar Chenoweth (R-Colo.), Byron G. Rogers (D-Colo.), an unidentified man, Dominick and Wayne N. Aspinall (D-Colo.).