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i. .-,) -H \_ ~tf~~> ~ June 1973 SUMMARY SHEETS Basalt Project, Colorado LOCATION Between the communities of Aspen and Glenwood Springs along the Roaring Fork River and its tributaries in Garfield, Eagle. and Pitkin Counties of west-central Colorado. PROJECT PLAN The Basalt Project would provide municipal and domestic water to assiat in the orderly development of the rapidly growing Roaring Fork Valley and irrigation ~ter for privately owned ranchette and farm lands in the area. Water in storage for the development of this srea is available in the existing Ruedi Reservoir and has been included in Colorado's water allo- cation under the Colorado River Compact. Water would be made available by storage releases from the existing Ruedi Reservoir, a feature of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, on the Fryingpan River and from water exchanges along Cattle, Mesa, and Coulter Creeks. The storage water would be conveyed from the reservoir to municipal and domestic treatment plants and to the Landis Canal by the Landis Pipeline. The municipal and domestic water would be distributed to the Roaring Fork Valley between the town of Carbondale and a point upstream about midway between the towns of Aapen and Basalt by three separate trunklines. Terminal storage, treatment, and further distribution of all the municipal and domestic water would be the responsibility of its users. The Landis Canal would convey irrigation water to the elevated terraces and valleys north of the Roaring Fork River between Basalt and Glenwood Springs. The irrigation supply would also be increased through the diver- sion of unused surplus flows of Cattle Creek 'to the existing Missouri Heights (Spring Park) Reservoir that would be operated in conjunction with the project. The water uaed on landa below the Cattle Creek diver- aion and lands in the lower reaches of Hesa and Coulter Creeks WDuld have their present water supply replaced by water from the Landis Canal. The water presently used on these lands would be transferred to lands further upstream by exchanges. Ii il Ii I II l~ I. I! II ~ " ;0 r :l; i , There would be two types of irrigation water available to the water users--residential irrigation water for small homesite tracts of 5 acres or less and commercial irrigation for operations on farms larger than 5 acres. The residential irrigation water would be for lswns, gardens, and small ranch use. Strict construction specifications would be followed in burying all pipe- 1'1 lines and disturbing only essential areas. All disturbed sreas would be reshaped and revegetated to harmonize with existing environment. i , ,