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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />CHAPTER IV <br /> <br />GRAVITY PIPELINE PLAN <br /> <br />Purposes o~ Development <br /> <br />A plan ~or a gravity pipeline ~rom Ruedi Reservoir is the largest <br />development studied ~or the Basalt area. Under this plan water would be <br />provided ~or municipal and domestic use, irrigation, and outdoor residen- <br />tial use. The development would have little e~~ect on recreation or ~ish <br />and wildlife. <br /> <br />The project would increase usable water supplies at diversion points <br />by an average of 26,300 acre-feet annually. This would include lO, 800 <br />acre-~eet for municipal and domestic uses in the towns of Basalt and Car- <br />bondale and adjacent rural areas and 15,500 acre-feet ~or irrigation and <br />outdoor residential use. The land served for both irrigation and outdoor <br />residential use is estimated at approximately 7,520 acres, including 4,660 <br />acres o~ supplemental service land and 2,860 acres of full service land. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Proj ect Plan <br /> <br />The water supply ~or the gravity pipeline development would consist <br />primarily of releases from storage in the existing Ruedi Reservoir on <br />the Fryingpan River. Some water would be obtained from surplus direct <br />flows of Fryingpan River and surplus direct flows of Cattle, Mesa, and <br />West Coulter Creeks. Flows of Cattle, Mesa, and West Coulter Creeks <br />Which are presently utilized would be made available ~or project use by <br />exchange. It is anticipated that operation of the existing Missouri <br />Heights Reservoir would be integrated with project operation. Agreements <br />for such operation would have to be rea.ched with the water users before <br />project construction was started. Features of the plan are shown on the <br />frontispiece map. <br /> <br />The main construction ~eature of the project would be the Landis <br />Pipeline, a buried, high-pressure pipeline approximately l8 miles long, <br />that would convey water ~rom the outlet of Ruedi Reservoir along the <br />north side of the Fryingpan River Canyon to other facilities. The pipe- <br />line would convey water to two plants to be constructed by the water <br />users ~or treatment o~ municipal and domestic water and to the Landis <br />Canal that would be the main distribution ~acility ~or water for irriga- <br />tion and outdoor residential use. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Treatment plant No. 1 ~or the municipal and domestic water would be <br />located approximately 13 miles from the head of the Landis Pipeline on <br />a bench about a mile north of Basalt. Treatment plant No.2 would be <br /> <br />29 <br />