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Water resources development -- Colorado

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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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

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Identifier: M085.09.0186.0027.00001
Abstract 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...
Dates: 1962