7401

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7401
• Author: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
• Title: Ruedi Reservoir, Colorado Round II Water Marketing Program, Final Supplement to the Environmental Statement, Fryingpan - Arkansas Projects, Colorado.
• USFW Year: 1989.
• USFW - Doc Type: Billings, Montana.
• Copyright Material: NO

TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued)
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4.2 Socio-Economic Consequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.38
4.2.1 Recreation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.38
4.2.1.1 Ruedi Reservoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.38
4.2.1.2 Fryingpan River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.42
4.2.2 Hydropower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.48
4.3 Cumulative Impacts--Reclamation Colorado River Basin Projects 4.48
4.3.1 Introduction 4.48
4.3.2 Socioeconomic Conditions 4.51
4.3.2.1 Crop Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.51
4.3.2.2 Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.53
4.3.2.3 Municipal and Industrial Water . . . . . . . . . . . 4.53
4.3.2.4 Recreation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.57
4.3.2.5 Employment Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.57
4.3.3 Aquatic Wildlife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.60
4.3.3.1 Habitat Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.60
4.3.3.2 Endangered Fish Species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.65
4.3.3.3 Endangered Fishes Consultation . . . . . . . . . . . 4.70
4.3.4 Terrestrial Wildlife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.71
4.3.5 Water Availability and Salinity . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.75
4.3.5.1 Water Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.75
4.3.5.2 Salinity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . `. . . . 4.76
4.4 Summary of Adverse Environmental Effects That Cannot Be
Avoided 4.78
4.5 Relationshia Between Short-Term Uses and Lonq-Term
4.6
4.7
4.8
. . . . 4.78
. 4.79
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. 4.81
V. GREEN MOUNTAIN SCENARIO MITIGATION SCENARIO
5.1 Green Mountain Mitigation Scenario Considered-in Detail . . . 5.1
5.2 Environmental Consequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2
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