WSP06830

• File Number: 8141
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 3/7/1960
• Author: Acting Sec of Interi
• Title: A Report and Findings on Ruedi Dam and Reservoir Colo Pursuant to Federal Reclamation Laws
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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RUED! DAM AND RESERVOIR, COLO.

(ii) Nea,r Norrie (immediately below the junction of NOlth
Fork and Fryingpan River) : 30 c.f.s. October 1 through March
31; 100 c.f.s. AprIl 1 through April 30; 150 c.f.s. May 1 through
May 31; 200 c.f.s. June 1 through JWle 30; 100 c.f.s. July 1
through July 31; 75 c.f.s. August 1 through August 31; G5 c.f.s.
September 1 through September 30.
In maintainillO' the above minimum standa.rds, the project diversions
shall be regllJat,;"d, so far as is practicable, in such a Inanner that the
Nort.h Fork of the Fryingpan River, the Fryingpan River, and eadl
of the tributaries of thoRe streams, shall contribute to the residual
streamflows required by those minimwn standards quantities of wa.ter
in proportion to their natural cont.ributions.
(b) For storage in Ruedi Reservoir to the extent of its actual
capacity, which is to be not, less than 100,000 acre-feet.
(c) For 3,000 acre-feet. annually, to the extent t.hat it is availa.bl~
in excess of (n) and (b) above, or such palt thereof as may be required,
to be cleli\"el'ed to the Twill Lakes Reservoir & Canal Co. in exchange
for equivalent releases from the headwaters of the Roaring Fork River
which would otherwise be diverted through ~llc.h Twin Lakes Reser-
voir & Canal Co. collection and di \'ersion system.
(d) For any other benefir.ial use in western Colorad,o in accordance
wit.h court. decree, but not. herein contemplated.
(2) The e,tfectuation of the above principles requires coucurrent
FryingpnnwArkansas project diversion and Ruedi Heservoir storage
to be accomplished in the manner following: The State e.ngineer
annually shall collect pertinent data., including information pertain-
ing to sllowl'ack "nd all other available e\'idence, and shall thereafter
80 di\"ide aud ltpportion the surface ruuoff as to achieve, as nearly a.s
possible, t.he foregoinfT division of wat.er and. t.he maximum of con-
current diversions fln~ storage. The di\'ersions herein contemplated
shall be on the basis of a water year he.reby defined "8 that interim of
October 1 through the following September 30.
10. For the protection of recreational values, including fishing, on
the Fryingpan Rive.r below Ruedi Reservoir, releases of water from
said reservoir, not t.o exceed the streanl inflow, shall be made so that
t.he st.reamflow immediately below the junction of the Fryingpan
River and Rocky Fork shall not be reduced below 39 c.f.s. from Novem-
ber 1 to April 30, and 110 c.f.s. from May 1 to October 30, or ,LS actual
expel'lellce or court dec.ree. shall hereafter dictate.
11. An appropriate written contract may be made whereby Twin
Lakes Reservoir & Canul Co. shall refrain from diverting w,lter
whenever the natural How of tile Roaring Fork HiveI' and its tribu.
taries shall be only sufficient to maillbtin H flo\\' equa.l to or less than
that required to mainta.in the recommended average flows in the Roar-
ing J'ork River immediately above its c.(Jlltluellce wit.h DiffieuJt. Creek
in a qua.ntity propOltionate to thA respective natural fio",. of t.he RIJal'.
iug Fork Itiver. The recouune:nded a.verage flows nbove mentionefl
are flows in quantities equal to those reC'omInE"-IHlen as a IIlIllimUIIl
inllnediately above its confluence with Difficult Creek according t.o