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" EAGLE-PINEY/EAGLE-COLORADO COLLECTION SYSTEM The Eagle-Piney/Eagle-Colorado collection system would extend west from the Roberts Tunnel system. Water would be diverted from the Eagle, Piney, and Colorado Rivers into a pipeline and tunnel conveyance system which would discharge into Tenmile Creek which flows into Dillon Reservoir. The water would be conveyed to the reservoir by gravity and pumping. The Eagle-Piney/Eagle-Colorado system features would include Piney Dam and Reservoir; Eagle-Colorado Dam and Reservoir; the outlet from Eagle-Colorado Reservoir; and 39 stream diversion structures, 62 miles of tunnel, 22 miles of conduit, and pumping plants on the Eagle and Colorado Rivers. The Eagle-Piney portion of the system would use a 40, OOO-ac re- foot-capacity Piney Reservoir to store flows from the 33,000-f9ot-long Meadow Creek conduit, the upper Piney River, and the 58,000-foot-long Moniger conduit. The l29,000-foot-long Vail Pass Tunnel connecting Piney Reservoir with Dillon Reservoir would operate as a gravity system. Another gravity collection system in the upper Esgle RIver basin would deliver flows from Homestake, Resolut ion, Lime, Turkey, Wearyman, and Black Gore Creeks to the Vail Pass Tunnel. This conduit would be about 120,000 feet long. Several short tunnels and conduits would act as pickup points and would feed into the main conduit between Homestake Creek and VaU Pass Tunnel. Diversion structures would be required at many of the streams intercepted by the conveyance system. The Eagle-Colorado portion of the system would consist of the Eagle-Colorado Dam and Reservoir, three pumping plants, snd tunnels to convey the water to Eagle-Colorado Reservoir and to VaU Pass Tunnel. Eagle-Colorado Reservoir, with a capacity of 230,000 acre-feet, would be located on Alkali Creek, a tributary of the Eagle River. ~later .24