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.~. 423135 RUEDI DA;>I AND RESERVOIR, COLO. ,day attenda.nce within the near future may reach 50,000 and annual monetary benefits from recreation would be $80,000. The National Park Service concludes that the estimates of develop- :ment costs and. annual monetar-y benefits are prelimina.ry al.lLl should be considered in that light. The following recommendations have .been su~gested by the National Park Service to guide future plan- ning. The Bureau of Reclamation cOllcurs in these objectives: 1. The takeline should be established around the J'esen.oir and at 'sufficient distance above maximum high water level to allow public .access to the entir-e shoreline. Recreation land suitable for l)ublic use sh?uld be acquired at the same t.ime land is being acquired. for reser- VOIr purposes. 2. If State Highway 104 should be relocated along the north shore -of tJH~ reservoir, It would provide goou uccess to the proposed l'Pl'.l'ea- tion a.reas and to ranches and communities upstream. 3. Scenic and re(~reation values should be considered during plan. 'Iling for t.he location of roads, borrow areas and ot.her construction .acti\'ities such as clearing and grading. 4. Since the reservoir site is within the boundary of the White River National Forest, t.}j(~ <1e,'elopmeIJL for recreation should be dis- ,cussed with the U,~. Forest Service dm'ing early stages of planning. 5. The National Park Service should be advised concerning plan- ning, ('oBstruct.ioll schedllles, and nIlY c.hanges in mr-thods of rE'servoir ,operation which might necessit.ate furt.her investigat.ions and studie.<.; in connection wit.h r-ecl'eation planning and the salvage of historic .and archeological fent.l1res, InRIGATION AJ~TERNATlVES .'General There a.re no significunt areas of land in the immediate vicinity of Rl1edi Reservoir that are suitaLle for irrigation uevelopment. Ruedi Reservoir storage water and natural flows of Fryingpan Creek, how. ever, could be utilized downstream for irrigation of arable lands along and adjacent to the Roaring Fork and Colorado Rivers as shown on exhibit 2. These m'eas inelude lands described bv the Bureau of Reclamation as the Cattle Creek, l\Iount Sopris, and :81 uest.one units of the Cliffs-Divide projeet in a report dated February 1V54. The in- vestigations of the Cliffs-Divide project were of a reconnaissance nature t.o provide nn inventory of potential irrigation developments in the Uppel' Colorado River Basin and determine those which war- rante,! further detailed stndy to establish their engineering and eco- nomic feasibility. It would be physically p03sible to provide irrigation service to the bulk of the lands of t,}\B Cat.t,}e Creek, Mount Sopris, and Bluestone areas from the Rlledi Reservoir, .A report summarizing invest.igat.iOlls made by the. Colorado River 'Yater Conservat.ion Dist.rict for serving the Cattle Creek and Mount Sopris lands from Ruedi Reservoir is ap- pended to t.his report. Howe\'er, the Bureau of ReclaJllation has not yet Blade sufficient invest.igations to rceommend project plans or estau- Jish the eeonomic desirability of development.