WSP08733

• File Number: 8141
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 3/7/1960
• Author: Acting Sec of Interi
• Title: Letter from Acting Secretary of the Interior transmitting a Report and Findings on Ruedi Dam and Reservoir Colo Pursuant to the Federal Reclamation Laws
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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3693

RUEDl DAM AND RESER\'OIR, COLO.

2. The Ruedi ReHo,','oir shall he constructed and maintained on the
-Fryingpan River abo\"e the town of Basalt with fill active capacity of
Hot less than lOO,OUO acre-feet. In addition thereto ano. in order to
offset adverse stream flow conditions on the Roaring Fork River above
the town of Aspen which might occur as a result. of the project en-
lal'cremcnt of tIle Twin Lakes Reservoir, the Ashcroft Reservoir on
Ca~tle Creek, or some l'esen'oir in lieu thereof, shall be constructed
on the Roaring Fork drainage above Aspen to a capacit.y of ap-
proximately ".000 a",'e-fee(,: Pl'o'virlerl, however, That the Ashcroft
ReseT\'oir shall he r.unst.l'lleted onl:y If the SeC:l'l'Jary of the Intenor
a,fter appropriate study shall determine that its benefits exceed the
easts.
All of sueh stored water shall he released mider the conditious and
limit.a.tiolls hereinnfte-I' set forth.
3. The reim bu rsn.IJle cost of construction of the Rued i Reservoi r sha-ll
be n clmrgB at!ainst t,he Frying-pan-Arkansas project. to the extent of
$7,600,000. The l'em:Lining reimbursable c.ost of const.rllct ion of the
Ruedi and Ashcroft Reservoirs or HlIhstitutes t.herefor shall be returned
as if the}' were participat,ing projects under t.he act of April 11, H)56
(70 St.at. 105), and all net r"yenues deriyed from their operation shall
he paid into Hie Upper Colorado River Basin fund as pl'Ovided in sec-
tion !) of sa.id net. The cost. of perpetual operation and maintenance
of (,]10 Ruelh Reservoir shall be borne by users of project w:\ter and
""-... users of water stored in Ruecli Reseryoir il~ such proportion as may be
" det.ern:Ined by the Secretary of the InterlOr. The cost of perpetual
c.Ji-~rfition and ma.intennnce of the Ashcroft Resel1:oir shall be borne
by user'ti of water from that. reservoir.
. 4. The inclusion of tJle Rlledi Heservoir in the project shall not pre-
clude the constructioIl of allY ot.her replacement or regulatory reser-
yoirs on the Colorado Riyer or its trIbutaries above Cameo gaging
statIOn,
5. The, Ruedi Reseryoir shall be completed a,nd in operation before
any wuter is di"eIied to eastern Colorado by means of the project.
6. (a) The replacement ellpncity of Ruedi Reservoir, and any reser-
voir const.ructed in nddit.ion thereto. is that. port.ion of t.he tot.al reser-
v,?ir c.:Lpuc.it.y required to permit proJect di,'ersions at times when such
diversions could not. otherwiS{', he. made because of simultaneous de.-
mands of senior diversions in western Colorad.o existing at the time
of the adoption of these operating principles, and shall be so operated
to aceolllplish t.his pnrpose. Water stored in such mgacity sh:lll be
released by the United States, upon the request of t,he ColOI:ado State
eng-illeer, to the extent. t.hat water would have bee,n available to said
decreed rights except for stream depletion re.'3ultin/7 froIll diversions
by this project to the Arkansas V "Iley. ~
(b) The regulatory ea.pacity of Ruedi Reservoir, and any reservoir
const,r:ucted in addit.ion thereto, is that portion of the total resen~oir
eapaclty not. needed for replacement purposes. "Tater stored in such
category ma.y be sold or leased by the United States to waters Usel'S in
Colorado for any purpose recognized by the laws of the United States:
PJ'm:ided, That t.he 6ft-Ie of water for use outside- the lluturnl basin of
the Colorado River can only be Illade with the consent of the Colorado
River ""Tater r:onservat.ion District. Charges for the use of sllch wate-f
shall be esta.blished by the Secretary of the Interior by appropriate