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28 3719 RUEDl DAM AND RESERVOIR, COLO. area is timber or grnzinl/; land. Cle!1ring of !1bout 600 acres of medium timber will be necessary. It will be necessary also to relocate !1pprOXI- m!1l.ely 71/~ miles of two-lane, gmvel-surfaced, State Highw!1Y No. 104 which now traverses the reservoir area and a like mileage of . telephone line. The nearest mil head is a branch line of the Denver & Rio Grande 'Western Railroad at, Basalt, Colo., slightly more than 14 miles from the damsite vi!1 State Highway 104. The nearest source of elect,ric power is the Public Serdce Co. of Colorado's 115-kilovolt tmnsmission line about 1miJe !1way. There are no adequate living quarters near the reservoir site for construction personnal. The cost estimate provides for adequate housing. Most of these units will be temporary type for use during construction. One will be permanent t.ype so us to provide continued housing for a dam tender after completion of construction. Oosts The eost. l?-stimate for Ruedi Dam and Re....o:;ervoir is of reconnaissance grade find is based OIl construction prices as of J annary 1959. A ,;SlIInmary of the estimate follows: , ldt.'?ttified. fJ,'operty and amount Land nod rights_____ _____________ - ---- - ---------- - -- ---- -------- Relocnti1ms _ _____ _ ______u ____ ____ __ ___ ______ -- ---- -------- ---- Clenri ng lands _ _______________________ .---- ------------------ --- Dam, ontlet works, and splllway__________________________________ General property and service facilltieSl____________________________ Investig'lltiun8, engineering, nnd other C08t:L______________________ Recrea tion facili ties_ ____________ -------------------------------- $185.000 300.000 150. 000 9,fi50,000 33G.000 2,095,000 55,000 Estimated project cost_____________________________________ 12,831,000 The operating principles specify that Ruedi Dam and Reservoir must be in operadon before diversions of water are made to the enstern slope by the Frying-pan-Arkansas project. As scheduled in the con- struction program for the Fryingpan-Arkansas project, the total con- struction period covers 6 years. The first year would be devoted mainly to preconstruction activity, the following 4 years to active con- stnlCtlon of the dam and reservoir, and the sixth year to minor work of 'completion. Construction funds are scheduled as follows: Fiscal year: AmOURI Fiscnl yenr-Con. AmouRI 100~___________________ $500.000 1005__________________ $3.000.~) 1063___________________ 3.350.000 1000__________________ 2.040.000 1064___________________ 3.680.000 100T__________________ 255.000 Estimated annual operation, maintenance, fwd replacement costs total $19,700, eonslst.inF' of $9,200 on the dam Hnd reservoir llnd $10,500 on recreation tacilities. The last sum includes $7,500 for . administrat.ion, operation, and maintenn.nce and $3,000 for replace- ment. The construction costs, interest during const.ruct.ion a.nd oper- . ation, mainte1utnces, and replncement are subject to allocation be- tween the Fryingptln-Arkanotls project. and western-slope uses of the reservoir.