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42 3 9 91 RUED! DAM AND RESERVOIR, COLO. .day att~n(l:1nce within the near future may reach 50,000 and annual monetary benefits from recreation would be $80,000. The National Park Service concludes that the estimates of develop- ment costs and annllal monetary benefits arc preliminary und should .be eonsidered in that light. The following recommendations ha\'e ;been suggested by the NatIOnal Park SerVIce to gUIde future pJan- ning. The Bureau of ReclHmatiOl~ OOIlcurs in these objecti~'es: 1. The takelilL8 shonld be establIshed arOlmd the resenOlr and at .sufficient distilIlee above mnximunl high wat.er level to nllow public access to the ent.ire shoreline. Recreat.ion land suitable for public use sll(~H1ld be a~quil'ed at the Same time land is ueing acquired for rese.r- VOlr purposes. 2. If St.ate Highway 104 should be reJoeated along t.he nort.h shore of the reser\'oir, It would provide good ac.cess to the proposed recrea- tion areus and to ranches and communities upstream. 3. Scenic and recreation values should be cOllsiuered during plan- :ning for the location of roads, borrow areus and other construct.ion activities such as clearing and grading. 4. Since the reservoir site is within the boundary of the 'Vhite River National Forest, the deyelopment for recreatioIl should be dis- cussed with the U.S. Forest Service during early stages of planning. 5. The Nat.ional Park Senice should be advised coueermug plan- ning, construe.t,ion schedllle,.:;:~ and any c.hanges in methods of reservoir 'operation which might necessitate further investigations and sfuc1ip.B in connection wit,h recreation planning and the salvage of historic .and archeological features. lRHIOATION ALTEn~A1'I\"ES ,Genel'al There are no signifie'lIlt areas of land in the immediate vicinity of Ruedi Resenoir that are suitable for irrigation development.. Ruedi Resen'oir storage water and natural flows of Fryingpan Creek, how- e\'er, could be utilized downstream for irrigation of arable lands along ami adjaeent to t.he Roaring Fork and Colorado Rivers as shown on exhibit 2. These ltTeas include lands described by the Bureau of Reclamation as t.he Cattle Creek, Mount Sopris, and l3Iuestone units of the Cliffs-Divide pro~ect in a report dated February 1954. The in- vestigations of the Cliffs-Divide project were of a reconnaissance nature to provide an ill\"ent.ory of potential irrigation developments in the Upper Colorado River Basin and determine those which war- ranted further detailed study to establish their engineering antI eco- nomic feasibility. It wOllld be I;hysicnlly possible to provide irrigation service to the bnlk of the lands of the Cltt.t.le Creek, Mount Sopris, and Bluestone areas from the Huedi Hesen'oir. A report summarizing investigat.ions Blade hy the Colorado River "r at.e.r Conservation Dist.rict. for serving the Cat.tle Creek 'lIld !\fonnt Sopris l:tnds from HlIedi Resen'oir is ap- pended to this report. However, the Bureau of Reclamat.ion has not yet made sufficient. invest.ig-ations to recolllmenl.1 project plans or estab- lish the economic desirabilit.y of development.