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.' -~~t. Basalt Proj ect '%:'~Jbntinued) ,",f" , printed as House Document No. 353, 86th Congress, 2d Session. Other appendices to that report which are related to the Ruedi Reservoir include reports by the Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wild- life, and National Park Service, and two reports made for the Colorado Water Conservation Board on possible water requirements associated with potential oil shale developments near the Colorado River below the Ruedi Reservoir site. A reconnaissance report on the pruject was published in December 1962 entitled "Huedi-Western Slope Investigations." Status of Planning The project feasibility investigations were initiated in May 1967. Plan formulation studies, designs, and estimates for all project features, agricultural studies, and economic studies have been completed, and writing of the proposed feasibility report has been initiated. Work has been initiated on the environmental studies and preparation of the Draft En- vironmental Impact Statement. The proposed feasibility report is sched- uled to be completed later this fiscal year. Total investigation costs to June 30, 1972, inclUding appraisal (recon- naissance) and feasibility, amount to $600,047. Plan of Development Water would be made available by storage releases from the existing Ruedi Reservoir, a feature of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Proj ect, on the Fryingpan Hi ver and from development of surplus flows of Ca:tt1e. Creek and from water exchanges along Mesa and Coulter Creeks. The storage water would be conveyed from the reservoir to municipal and domestic treatment plants and the Landis Canal by the Landis Pipeline and Canal. The treated water would be distributed by three separate municipal and domestic trunklines to the Roaring Fork Valley between the town of Carbondale and a point upstream about midway between the towns of Aspen and Basalt. Two municipal and domestic trunklines would branch from a treatment plant about 1 mile north of Basalt. The Snowma.ss trunldine would distribute municipal and domestic water to the Roaring Fork Valley between Basalt and a point upstream about midway between the towns of Basalt and Aspen. The El Jebel trunkline would distribute the treated water to the town of Basalt and downstream to ,a point about midway betll'een the towns of Basalt and Carbondale. The third trunkline, Carbondale, would begin at a treat- ment plant at the terminus of the Landis Pipeline Wid distribute municipal and domestic water to the lower half of the Roaring Fork Valley including Carbondale and to the elevated mesas between Cattl~ Creek and the Roaring Fork River. The Landis Canal would convey domestic and normal irrigation water to the elevated terraces and valleys north of the Roaring Fork River between 2