WSP08063

• File Number: 8141
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/1959
• Author: CWCB
• Title: Comments of the State of Colorado on the Ruedi Dam and Reservoir
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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repayment capabilities of the Pryingpan,Arkansas
project, and there are no apparent di:ficulties
from tha t s tandpoin t. .

Mr, William I, Palmer, the Assistant Commissioner of
Reclamation, testified on the same subject at page 46, as
follows:

The cost of Ruedi Dam and ReserVOir is
estimated at S12,831,000 as compared to
S7,600,000 for the Aspen site that it
replaces. This increase in cost in the
amount of S5,231,000 would be under the
pending bill, an obligation of the
Prying pan-Arkansas project for repay-
ment purposes until such time as Congress
might relieve the project of this expense
through legislation to authorize the
Basalt project or alternative development
for utilization of Ruedi Reservoir storage.

Even th9u9h much of the ben~fit of Ruedi
will ultimately go to the west slope,
the Pryingpan-Arkansas people are will-
ing to underwrite the added cost of
Ruedi until such time as that cost can
be picked up by a project authorized
by the Congress.

Mr. L. R, Kuiper, Acting Director, Colorado Water
Conservation Boafd in a statement found at page 58 said:

, these new operating principles 5mend
those previously considered to take C5re
of the repayment of Ruedi Reservoir. The
Southeastern district has agreed to sign
a contract for the re9ayment of the project
by the district, for Ruedi Reservoir,
until such time as contractors are avail-
able in western Colorado to assume a
portion of the project's cost,

The following langu2ge is EJund both in Senate Report 1742
of the 37th Con'Jrcss, 2d SeSSion, July 19, 1962 at page 6
and House ~e90rt 694 of the 87th Congress, 1st Session, July
11, 1961, at page 7:

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