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lQ~0 PROPOSED REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF RECLAMATION u.s. DEPARTMENT OF TilE I~TERIOu. BUREAU OF HECL..\.:MATION, Washington, D.C., October f!3, 1959. The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. SIR: This is my proposed refort on Ruedi Dam and Reservoir, which is a potential feature 0 the proposed Fryingpan-Arkansas project, Colorado. This report is presented as a supplement to the re- port on the Fryingpan-Arknnsas project, which was printed as House Document No. 187, 83d Congress. It descl'lbes an alternative plan for replacement storage on the Fryingpan River in lieu of the Aspen Dam tlnd Reservoir originally proposed on the Roaring Fork River. Selection of the Ruedi ,ite for replaceme.nt storage for the Frying- pan-Arkansas project and for other purposes is the result of extensive studies of t.he potential alternati ve sites and conferences among all interests in the State of Colorndo and the l:ollcerned Federal agencies. Thf'_ plan is to build Hlledi Dam of ~ufficient height to scn'e multiple purposes in the Colorado River Basin as well as to serve its replace- ment function for t.he Frying-pan-Arkansas project. In order to implement this plan, 11 new set of opemting principles as qnoted in the Regional Director's report. has been agreed upon by the several local entit.ies involved and officially executed by tlIe Go\"ernor of Colorado as chairman of t.he Colorado~ 'Vater COllservat,ion Board. The Ruedi Dam and Heservoir site is ]ocatefl on the Fryingpan River, a trihutary of the Hoaring Fork and the ColoI'ado River, near the t.o\\'n of Basalt, Colo. The dam \\'oultl be an cat't.hfill structure rising 270 feet above the streambed. It. would create a reservoir of about 100,000-acre-foot capacity, covering an area of 1,000 acres. The preliminary eost est.imate, based upon .January ] 959 prices, is $12,831,000. The cost. of the originally proposed ~8,000-acre-foot. Aspen Dam and Resel'yoir was est,imated at $7~GOOP()O. The Fryingpan-Arkallsas project ",as analyzed and just.ified on the basis of tlus cost for replace- ment storage. Since the Ruedi Dam and Reservoir will perfol'Ju the same funct.ion, so far as the Frying-pan-Arkansas project is concerned, that amount is assigned as a FrYlllgpan-Arkansas project cost., leav- ing $5,231,000 of the cost of Ruedi to be allocated among multiple- purpose uses on the western slope. The Regional Director's report 10 .. =." .- .