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<br />SUMMARY Sm:Eil3 <br /> <br />Basalt Project, Colorado <br /> <br />LOCATION <br /> <br />Roaring Fork Valley in the vicinity of Basalt and Carbondale in Garfield, <br />Eagle, and Pitkin Counties of west-central Colorado. <br /> <br />PLANS INVESTIGATED <br /> <br />Consideration was given to four potentialities for water resources devel- <br />opment. Three of these would obtain all or a major portion of their <br />water supply from the existing Ruedi Reservoir on the Fryingpan River. <br />They also would make some use of surplus direct flows of Fryingpan <br />River and small local streams. The fourth potentiality involves only de- <br />velopment of local streamflows by enlargement of the existing Missouri <br />Heights Reservoir. <br /> <br />One plan for use of Ruedi Reservoir consists simply of the purchase of <br />storage water by a non-Federal entity, with that entity providing the <br />necessary collection and distribution facilities. All of the other devel- <br />opments were considered as potential participating projects of the Colo- <br />rado River Storage Project. Data on these are tabulated below. <br /> <br />Increase in supplies (avg. ann. ac.-ft.) <br />MUnicipal and domestic use <br />Irrigation <br />Outdoor residential use <br />Total <br />Effects on Colorado River at Hoover Dam <br />Stream depletion (avg. ann. ac.-ft.) <br />Increase in salinity (mg/l) <br />Salt loading 0.1 0.1 <br />Depletion effect ~~. 0.2 <br />Total .9 ---=0 .2 <br />11 Figures shown are average annual supplies for a 50-year period <br />and reflect anticipated gradual conversions of some irrigation water to <br />outdoor residential use or use on tracts of 5 acres or less. <br /> <br />Use of Ruedi Reservoir <br />storage water <br />Gravity Pumping <br />pipeline from <br />from Fryingpan <br />reservoir River <br /> <br />WATER SUPPLY <br /> <br />_ :1,0,800 <br />1/6 440 <br />Yf060 <br />2 ,300 <br /> <br />10,800 <br /> <br />....2.....QQQ. <br />l5,1lOO <br /> <br />9,100 <br /> <br />6,100 <br /> <br />Enlarge- <br />ment of <br />Missouri <br />Heights <br />Reservoir <br /> <br />Y920 <br />Y 2.580 <br />3,500 <br /> <br />1,800 <br />