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<br />of our construction has taken place to this point in time. Ruedi Dam <br />and Reservoir is complete. As I said, it is a replacement storage <br />facility to insure service to the senior downstream rights on the <br />Colorado River. The collection area is a system of approximately twenty- <br />six miles of tunnels, about sixteen.diversion points, and several miles <br />of covered conduit. Water collected from these areas will be taken <br />through the Boustead Tunnel into Sugar Loaf Dam. Sugar Loaf Dam is I <br />also completed. That's the first storage facility on the East.Slope.' <br />From that point, the water will be conveyed to Mt. Elbert Conduit into <br />the Mt. Elbert Forebay Dam. This dam is under construction and will.be <br />completed sometime this fall. This dam, as the name implies, will <br />serve as a forebay for the Mt. Elbert Pump Storage Power Plant. The <br />Mt. Elbert Pump Storage Power Plant has an ultimate capacity of two <br />hundred megawatts. It's well under way and the first of the two one <br />hundred megawatt units is. now in the process of installation. <br /> <br />From that point, the water will be returned to Twin Lakes from the power <br />plant. The Twin Lakes Dam and Reservoir enlargement has not been <br />initiated at this point in time, but it's scheduled for contract in <br />1977 . <br /> <br />From Twin Lakes, water will be conveyed down the Otero Canal to the <br />Otero Power Plant. We also plan to rehabilitate Clear Creek'Dam and <br />Reservoir which will serve as the after bay of the Otero.Power Plant. <br /> <br />(Slide) Now, a good share of our work has and will take place on the <br />West Slope, all of the work on the collection system is above ten <br />thousand feet. It's pretty rugged:country. The people that you.find <br />up there, the hard rock miners and so forth, are a pretty tough breed. <br />You won't find many missionaries among this group, because it takes a <br />pretty strong constitution to put up with the altitude and the weather <br />conditions and so forth. <br /> <br />(Slide) It's a beautiful area. This is the county road relocation of <br />104 around Ruedi Reservoir. I have thrown this slide in because of the <br />fact that we have a lot of comments about revegetation and scarring the <br />landscape and so forth. This is a cut section within the 104 relocation. <br />You can see the quakies are coming back on the left side of the cut. <br />There is some pretty good vegetation on the right side of the cut, and <br />a few trees coming along on that side. <br /> <br />(Slide) Now, Ruedi, as.I said, was designed principally as a replace- <br />ment storage facility. The dam itself was oversized to a capacity of <br />about one hundred thousand acre-feet. Our computed average annual <br />.yield from this reservoir is about seventy-five thousand acre-feet. I <br />We contemplate 'that about twenty-seven thousand acre-feet will be <br />required for replacement storage; in other words, to satisfy senior <br />downstream rights. That leaves about forty-seven ,thousand acre-feet of <br />marketable storage for use as needed and we are in the process of <br />trying to figure out just where that is going to be needed. (Slide) <br />Anyway, it's a beautiful lake and this is a shot taken during the annual <br />sailboat regatta of the Aspen Yacht Club. <br /> <br />(Slide) Skipping to the collection system, this is a typical diversion <br /> <br />-2- <br />