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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RUEDI DAM AND RESERYOIR, COLO.

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for the Busk-Ivanhoe decree, and with the further and abs~lute
limitation Uw.t ill order to IH\>tect existing wId future beneficml
uses of water ill western Colorndo, including recreational and
fishing values, the Stltte engineer shall so regulate the tra.nsm~lill-
t.aill di\'ersions above referred t.o to the end that no diverslOlls
shn..JI be made Wllich will redu('...8 tlle rema,ining aggre.gu.te stl'e..'l.ffi-
flow::; to less t.han ei~her of the following minimum st.nlldards:
(i) The Fryiugpan collection system at the points of di-
version collectively, exclusive of Lime Creek: 15 e.f.s. October
1 through Murch ~1; 30 c.f.s. April 1 through September 30.
(ii) NelLI' Norrie (inunediately below t,he junction of North
Fork und Fryingpun River): 30 c.f.s. October 1 through
March ~1; 100 c.f.s. April 1 through April 30; 150 d.s. May
1 through May 31; 2UO c.f.s. .Iulle 1 through .June :30; 100
c.f.s. .July 1 through .July :31; 70 c.Ls. August 1 t,hrough
August 31; 65 c.f.s. :Oeptember 1 through September 30.
In maintainillg the above minimum standards, the projed di-
versions shall be regulated, so far ns is pract.ica_ble, in such a mUll-
ner UnLt, the North Fork of the Fryingpan River, the Frying-pan
River, and each of the tribut.a.ries of tllOse st.reHlllS, shall cont.rIbute
to the residual streamfloW's required by those minimum standards
quantities of water in propOItion to their llatllJ"ul contributions.
(b) For storage in Rlledi Reservoir t.o the extent of its actual
capacity, Wl1ich IS contemplatoo to be not less t.han lOO,OOlJ acre-
feet.
(e) For 3,000 acre-feet annually, to the extent that it is ava,il-
able in excess of (a) and (6) abo,'e" or such pal.t, thereof as Illay
be required, to be delirered to the Twin Lakes Reservoir & Canal
Co. in exchange for equi,'alent releases from the headwaters of the
Roaring Fork River which would otherwise be diverted t.hrough
sneh Twill Lakes Resen"oil' & CUBal Co. coIled, ion and diversion
s'ys~m.
((I) For all,)" other bene,ficin.l use in westerH Colorado in fi.C-
cordance. with court decree, but not herein contempla.ted.
(2) The etfectwLtion of the above principles requires concur-
rent Fryingpan-Arkansas project diversion and Ruedi Reservoir
storage to be accomplished in the manner following: The State
engi.neer ann~Ul.Ily shall collect pert.inent dH.t,it~ including infor-
mat.IOn pertUlTllng to ~nowpack and all other available e,'idence,
and shall thel'eafter so divide and apport.ion the surface runoff
os to achieve, as nearly as possible, the foregoing division of
water a.nd tJlt~ maximum of concurrent di,'ersions and storage.
The diversions herein contemplated shnlI be on the basis of a
wnter yen,. hereby defined as that, interim of October 1 to the
following Septemher :30.
10. F~)r the protection of recre.atjonal vH,lues, including fishing-, on
the FI1.lI1gpan Bi'"er below Ruedi'Reservoir, relea.ses of water II"Om
~aid reservoir, not to e,xceed the st.l'eam tllflow, shall be made so that
t.lm stTf'-nmflow immediately below t.he junction of the Frvillf:r})nn
River ,Uld Ro~kJ Fork ~hall not be_ redueed below 39 c.{s. from
November 1 to .\pril ao, and 110 c.f.s. from May 1 to October 0", 01'
as act.lJ:11 experien('e or cOllrt. decree shall hereafter dictate.