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Chapter TI WATER DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL 3 The Rocky Mountain Power Company has applied to the Federal • Power Commission fora license to develop and operate one or more hydro- electric power plants on the Sweetwater Creek, This application, if approved, will most likely be amended and modified somewhat from present plans which involve: 1, A 260 foot high dam to impound a fluctuating level res- ervoir on the South Fork of the White River meadows just above Budge's Resort. Water from Wagonwheel Creek and Patterson Creek may be diverted into the reservoir. The reservoir, to be known as Meadows Reservoir, _ would have a capacity of approximately 99,000 acre feet and a surface - area of about 870 acres (Figure 1), • 2. A diversion from Meadows Reservoir to the Sweetwater drain- age by way of 7-foot-diameter, 4 mile long Plateau Tunnel. 3, Awater-collection system involving Sweetwater Creek, Tur- ret Creek and other tributaries. 4, Probable future collections from the Derby Creeks and East Fork of Red Dirt Creek, 5, A power plant near Sweetwater Lake. 6, Acrass-country conduit from Sweetwater Lake to Dotsero at the junction of the Eagle and Colorado Rivers. _ 7. A power plant near Dotsero. • 8. A forebay above Sweetwater Lake into which water may be • pumped during periods of law power demand, and from which water may be released to meet peak power requirements, 9. Roads for access to various proposed developments; primarily