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<br />0,.- -""':("; <br />~_,J . <br /> <br />During June, July, and August in all but exceptionally dry years, the <br />water surface area will be about 925 acres. The increase in elevation <br />from spring to summer months would amount to about 50 feet, far from <br />drying up the reservoir. During the summer, it is estimated that the <br />elevation might fluctuate,about 7 feet. The higheat level would be <br />reached during July and the lowest during winter months when the <br />reservoir is drawn down to receive the spring snowmelt. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />For the several years that Ruedi Reservoir has been operated, no ahore <br />dust problems have been encountered. Much of the shoreline area ia in <br />contact with ateep slopea where a drawdown represents a small exposed <br />shore area. The aoil along the shorea is generally aandy and not <br />readily susceptible to wind erosion. Where the overburden was only <br />several feet thick, some ahoreline erosion has caused amall slides to <br />develop. Wave action and annual fluctuation have flushed out the <br />backfill material of ancient filled sinkholes,. None of these, however, <br />have caused an inordinate dust problem. <br /> <br />4. Issue: The Bureau violates the letter and spirit of the Act which <br />specifies that it is aupposed to investigate, plan and operate, and <br />maintain the facilities such as Ruedi Reservoir for the conaervation <br />and development of fish and wildlife resources. <br /> <br />Raised by: <br /> <br />Representing <br /> <br />Tam Scott <br /> <br />Colorado Rivers Council <br />Rocky Mountain Rivers Foundation <br />Mayor of Aspen <br />Aspen Valley Improvement Association <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />*Stacy Standley <br />*C. W. Hiller <br /> <br />Response: <br /> <br />The Act specifically citea Ruedi Reaervoir in setting forth the purposes <br />of the Project as follows: <br /> <br />"That for the purposes of aupplying water for irrigation, <br />municipal, domeatic, and induatrial uses, generating <br />and transmitting hydroelectric power and energy, and <br />controlling floods, and for other useful and beneficial <br />purposes incidental thereto, including recreation and <br />the conservation and development of fish and wildlife, <br />the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to conatruct, <br />operate, and maintain the Fryingpan-Arkansas project, <br />Colorado, in aubstantial accordance with the engineering <br />plans therefor set forth in House Document Numbered 187, <br />Eighty-third Congreaa, modified as proposed in the <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />XI-465 <br />