368 86th Congress 2d Session House Document No 353 fCf rEj JG J RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR tf 1 f tp t r6 r 41 0 LETTER FROM ACTING SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TRANSMITTING A REPORT AND FINDINGS ON RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO PURSUANT TO THE FEDERAL RECLAMATION LAWS w 1 I utCR M I 7 1960 Referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and ordered to be printed with illustrations UNITED STATES VERNMENT GO 51 PRJNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON 1960 3685 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL I Ron SAM RAYBURN Spealtoer of tlw Ii mUje Washington D C u s DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 1960 Wa8hingt n D C iIarch of Representative8 DEAR MR SPEAKER My report and findings on Ruedi Dam and Reservoir Colo are t ransmitted herewith as provided by the Federal reclamation laws The report presents n plan for consh uetion of Ruedi Dam and Ueselvoir as a feat ure of the Frying pan Arkansas project in lieu of the Aspen Dam n nd Reservoir desenbed in House Doeument 187 83d Congress The attached report presents t he physjea plan of de e op for the Ruedi Dam and Reservoir and a for the inclusion ijlostifncat of regnlatory storage capaeity for the purposes of munieipal and in dustrIal water supply or in flood control fish and wi dlife igat ion River pres etation and Jl opaglltion a nd recrea tion in the Colo1do slll Ba The proposed storage capacity of Ruedi Reservoir is grenter t1UUl would be neeessn ry solely to perform the replacement storage nUlC tion for the Fryingpan Arkansas project For this reason only that portion of the cost which is in excess of the cost previously ju tified for replacement storage at the Aspen Reservoir site is considered chargeable to Colorado River Basin uses It is lUlticipated that the re Yj latory storage capacity in exeess of that necessary to serve the FrymgplUl Arkansas project function will he required to provide municipal and water supply asso industria ciated with the oil shale reeo ery indnstry In the absence of ti11l1 re quirements for snch water at this time it is proposed to apply the pl O isions of the Water Supply Act of 1958 Public Law 85 500 to repaymp nt for the torage en c ity so aIlocated pa Copies of my proposed report on Ruedi Dam and Reservoir were tntnsmitted to t he Irected States t he Secretary of the AI1UY and to interested Federal agencies for comment of the comment re to the report ceived as 0 result of thnt review a re chec atta report and copies of all comments received were tra nsmitted he President through the BUle u of the Budget on February 25 t O A eopy of the letter from the Bureau of the Budget dated 1 1 0 iudieating there would be no objection to sllbmission MiLrch of this report t t he Congress is attached Cories liThe Sincerely yours ELMER F Acfin q ate Seoretary of Ident ical let ter to Hon Richard M Nixon Vllshington D C BENNETT the Inferio Pl eside nt of the Sen III 3686 LETTER FROM THE BUREAU OF THE BUDGET EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE NT PRESIDJ BUREAU OF THE Fr Buoo Was kington D C ill al ch 4 19CO Ii The Honornble the SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR Jlfy DEAR MR SECRETARY This will acknawledge yaur letter of February 25 1 0 trmsmitting yaur report on plan af develap ment for Ruedi Dam and Resen oir Your report RlIedi Da m as a substitute for Aspen which proposp W 3S nsas Arkfi originally proposed as a feature of the Fryingpn n project The RlIedi Dam is estimated to cost 12 831 000 of which 7 600 000 woulei be allocllteei to the Fryingpan Arkansas praject and f 23 OOU is considered dm rgE flble to wesfe nl slope uses It IS noted tlmt a lthough there llre no spec ific costs required for realization of t he fish and wildlife benefits alltieipat from the ed project 1 757 800 is allocated to fish and wildlife The BlIreml af the Budget considers that only additional projeet costs I quired for realizatian af fish and wildlife benefits should be allocated to this This is the method employed in the repart far allocatian purpase of costs to recreat ion lWei it is believed to be equally applicable to fish and wildlife costs y aur repart propases to alac te costs among project purposes based on a lOO nalysis The Bureau f the Budget has year period of n Ion causidered that propos d water resources development prajects should be eT ulun ed within their expected eeollomic life hut not beJond 50 t While the years from the time project benefits became available physical life of many projects will undoubtedly exceed 0 yearH an a ssumption of economic life beyond 50 years is highly spec nJative part icularly if the rate of recent technalogical advance is prajected JI1ta the fu t ure In this case the use of a IOO of analysis iad yen pel results in a signific a nt reduction in reimhursnble costs It wauld appear t hat an ppropriate adjust ment in the cost a loc tlon using a O year periud of una lysis mId no lt ion to fish a nd aJloc wildlife would produce an a1ocat ion to deferred storage for munici pal and indust rial wnter of somewhat in excess of 30 percent of the eost of the project This would be inconsistent wit h the terms af the Vater Supply Act of ln58 which limits to 30 percent the allocat ion to deferre 1 It is believe 1 that this fact should ter supply storage be caled to the attent ion of the Congress It is unde rstood that your report is the result of ft ulce reconnnisS survey rat her than a project investigation and that the cost estimate are tl1endore of n more preliminury character t hnn is usual for re r e as a basis for se pOlis to t he COllgress whieh pro ect tlltllOriza lmt in the event the Fryingpan tion It is considered therefore t uqa 7 Q LETTER FROM THE BUREAU OF THE BUDGET l thorized a reevltluation of the R uedi Da m Arkoansas project is ft t o a request for appropriat ions to initiate its should be made prior It iH believed t hat ill this l V tlWLtioll costs should be construction eOl danee wit h the above 1 oses in pU nlloeatoo to the various project comments would be no objection to suhmission of your re ver no commitment can be made at this Iow I be submitted for time as to when any est im Lte of appropriat ion would the if authOlized t Congress since this by construction of he project would be gove rned by t he President s budget ary object ives as deter It would be appre sit uation fiscn mined by the then prevailing ter this let of report to the Con your a accompanied ciated if copy gress Sincerely yours ELMtJR B ST ATS lJelmty Dil ectm Accordingly there port to the Congress 3688 LETTER OF SUBMITTAL U S DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFfCE OF THE SECRETARY D O February 135 1960 1V a8hingt on THE PRESIDENT The lVhite lkSe HO Through the Bureau of the Budget DEAR MR PRESIDENT My report on a plan of development for Ruedi Dam fwd servoir He Co o js submitted herewit h in accordance wIth the Reclamation Project Act of lU39 It is supplement to the report OIl the Fryingp m Arkansas project which was printed as Honse Doc ument 187 8 hl Congress Huedi Dam and Reservoir is rl oposed as 11 subst itute for Aspell Dam fi nd Re ervoir which wus orIginally pro posed as a feature of the Frying pan Arkansas project Adopt ion of Hllelli D llll lllld Heseryoir ItS the replacement facility fOl the Fryingpall Arkansas project in lieu of Aspen Dam and Res elToir will aceomplish t wo important purposes Substnnt ial benetits will accrue to water lI el S and other illtCl ests UII the western slope of The condi the Cont inental ivide as well as on t he eastern slope t iolls at t he site permit develoPlllent of a Jllueh larger rese l oir there by providing fof the west slope interests ln assured water Hupply which may be w ie f fOI irrigation for municipal water supply for water Ileeded to SUppOl t Ill oil shale recovery ind ust ry 01 for ot her The nsh Ill f wildlife and recreational benetits of the reser purposes voir will he substcllltial and the re sel yoil will impound floodwaters whidl otherwise would cause dalllnge downstream This repol t is rll signed primilrily to delllollstrate the just ification fOI lmilcling TIl e 1 tlll and HeseL oir to 1t greater l itpacity t han li would be net eSSl1ry solely to pedorm the replacement storage function for the Fryingpall ArI llsas project For this reaSOH unly that por t ion of the C o t wh i h is in exct ss of the cost previously justified for e is tonsiclerecl ehal replacement gf ahle to t he westerll slope uses stomf In the abSf llle uf firm requirements for the water so developed at this t illle and without prejudice to future use of the water for Irriga t ion if t hat use should de elop first the consen ation st ol tg e capacity is alloeated to mUllieipal and industrial water supply The report f stablislles and suppleme ntary flo lImellts includ ing n letter from the Depart ment of t he Navy eOIlTIrm that an oil shale indust ry lllHi a ffili ated uses when esta1blis hed in stel Tl Colorado will require a great deal more water than i ava ilalfle without storage regulat ion Since the date of neef for suell water is uncertain the provisiolls of the Vater Supply Acl of 1 8 Public Law 80 00 were used to permit use The State of Colorado is will isioll of storage for fer ed de pro lTl to c aSSUlanee require d by t hat act that repayment of the costs gi alloented to that use will he forthcoming vu Vll 089 LETTER OF SUBMITTAL l inated cool with lhe ffeeted itates lLnd My proposed report was law and interage ncy agreement as re quired by Federal iaeg nsc Copies of the review comments received as a result of tha t L oordina tion are made part of the report I recommend tlmt Rne 1i Dam and Reservoir he authorized lLnd built as a felLture of the Fryingpan ArkanslLs project which you lmve VI previously recommended to the Congress for authorizat ioll would appreciate being lLdvised of the rellLtionship of this proposal to your program hefore the report is tmnsmitted to the Congress for its conside ration Sincerely yours FRED A SEATON Secretary of the Interior 3690 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF RECLAMATION U THE SECRETARY OF THE S DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF RECLAMATION Wn hingtoll D C February 16 1960 INTERIOR Sm This is my report on a plan of de ment for the Ruedi Dam elol and Reservoir Colo It is base d upon and mc1udes my proposed re pott of October 23 1959 which you approved and adopted on October 27 90 of t he proposed report were t mnsmitted to the affected States of the Arkal10as ami the Colorado River Bllsins the Secretary of the Army and to t he interested Federal agt ncies for re iew us required by law and by interagency agreement All those who received the re port officially haye replied except t he States of Arizona and Nevada which would not be subst antially affected by the proposed de elop ment CopillS of t he let ters of comment received are attached The proposed project is suppOlted by the State of Colorado and has its full and nneqniyocal approval as cyidenced by t he let ter of No 9 from the director of the Colorado Water Conserva vember 24 19 In that letter the State of Colorado also fumished as tion Board surance of its willingness to assume the Irepayment oblig atioll for the portion of the cost of Rlledi Dam and Heservoir which may be al located to deferred municipal and industrial wat er supply under pro vision of the Wat er Supply Act of H S as follows Copies Should such a market however Dot develop to a deogree sufficient to return the State of costs allocated to municIpal and industrial water supply cessary ne to assure full re Colorado will undertake repuymeont of the portion the payment of municipal and industrial water Sllpply costs As contemplated in our proposed report certain inconsistencies in the operat ing principlllS for Ruedi Dam and Reservoir set forth in the attached regional director s report of September 25 1959 were discus e l wit 1t officials of the State of Colo do By letter of J anURrv 15 191 0 the director of the Colorado Water Conservat ion Board transmitted a fully execllted eopy of the operating principles as amended on December 30 1059 by the seyeral mterested State organ A copy of t he amended za tions to eliminate those inconsistt Ilcies is atta a part of this ched to and made report These principles amended prineiples hereby supersede the operating principles set forth in the regional director s report as well as those set fOlth in Honse Document 187 83d Congress on the Fryingpan Arkansas project The comrnellt of the State of California are concerned more di r ctlv with the ameno ments it wishes to haxe incorporated in legisla tion 1 0 authorize the Frying pan Arkansas project than wit h t he report The State concluded that our proposed on Ruedi Dam anel Resen oir report does not appear to be an adequate project planning report 1 2 3691 UEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO lzed Ruthol However for recommendatIOn that the development be it has no objeclion to the idea of storage such as proposed at the Ruedi Resenoir site if it will serve a just ified useful purpose for develop ment in the Colorado River Basin The Chief of Engineers Department of the Army finds that the proposal does not conflict with any existing project or plans of the Ie called attention to the prelimmary nature I Corps of Eno ineels of da ta furnGheu by tIte corps and noted t he omission of provision for flood control operation under regulations to be prescribed in ac cordance with the Flood Control Act of 1944 These are matters for resolution with that agency during advance planning on the project in accordance with our customary procedures The Department of Agriculture COTIeurs in the conelusions of the report concerning t he hea y rycreational use of the Ruedi ReseIToir but believes this use Will be higher t han estimated As proposed by that Department the Bureau of Reclamation and National Park Service will collaborate with the Forest Service in a more detailed approach of the needed recreation facilities and a mntnally acceptahle plllll fur such improvements following authorization of the project This collaboration wonld also achieve tile objectives of the language epUlt which were recommended in t hat connection changes in the II Comments of other States and Federal agencies are generally favorable toward the proposal Suggest ions reeeived for further coordination of programs with certain a encies and for further studies of specific aspects of the project can be accommodated during the advance planning actiyities which will be required before construc tion if the Fryingpan Arkansas project is authorized Copies of the proposed report were also transmitted to the Depart ment of the Navy That Department h the Office of Naval thron Petroleum and Oil Reserves contacted a number of individuals and development of an oil compa liies known to ha e an interest in the shale industry in Colorado The replies received copies of which are attached t o t he enclosed Acting See retary s letter of J anuary 2D 1960 present a yaluable appraisa1 of the future need for a water supply for t hat industry It appears to be the consensus t hat a large oil shale indust ry will develop and dlat alt hough t here is no imme diate demand for wat er for t hat purpose such water will assuredly be required when the industry becomes commercially important As the nature of the comments ect is fa Torable and since no recei objections were made to t he proposal I conclude that the plan of lined out in our pro development for Ruedi Dam and Reservoir as posed report and amended herein is jnstified and desirable Ac cordingly I recommend that you apprm e md adopt this as your report on Ruedi Datu and Reseryoir Colo and t hat you t ransmit it together wit h attached comments to the President and subsequenUy to the lal lation Re Congress as prm ided by the Projeet Act of 19 J9 Respectfnlly FLOYD E Approved and adopted Februar DOl IIKY Oo mmi sioner 25 1960 FRED A Secretary of SEATON the Interior OJ2 RUEDI OpJo n Adopted IJY TINft DAM AND PRINCIPLES FnYJNGPAK the State of Colorado April 3 COLO SERVOIR RE 30 1959 PnOJECT SSAS ARKA as amended Dec 30 1959 of the project jn oh e the diversion The rOllstl uetiQIl and ioopernat of the Fl yingpan Rn er and otl el Iteadwate Is of water from t he tributaries of the Roaring Fork River to the Arkansas River Hasm 1 The project contempbtes llIaXlInUm conservatIOn anu use of water The protretion of western Colorado water uses both ex isting and potential in accordance with the declared polIcy of the State of Colorado and c The preservation of recreational vulues In order to accomplish snch pnrposes the project shall be operated by the United States in compliance with the Federal reclam tl n laws use the laws of t he State of Colorado relat ing to the lappratlOUpll 01 distribution of water and the following operating principles 1 As used herein a Project means thilt celinin enterprise planned and de signed by the Bureau of Recl unntion Department of the InterIOr for the transmountain diversion of wflter from the headwaters of t he Frvingpiwl River llld ot her t ribut aries of the Roaring Fork River to the basin of the Arkansas River together with all of it appurlmant works and facilities in botb eastern and western Colorado b Eastern Colorado means that portion of the State of Colorado lying within t he natuml drainage basin of the Arkansas fl The b River l c Vestern Colorado means that portion of the State of Colorado lying wit hin tbe natural drainage basin of the Colorado Ri el and sen ed hv diversions made from the Colorado River or its tributaries above its contluence with the Gunnison River d Southeaslern Colorado Water Consernlilcy District means that entity created to contract for payment to the United States of an appropriate port ion of project costs allocated to cer tain water uses in astern Colorado c Calm ado R iver Vat er Conservation District means that entity created by Colorado Revised Statutes 1953 149 8 as amended I Southwestern Vater COl1sel Htion Distl icC means that ent lty created by Colorado Rel ised Statutes 1953 149 9 as amended Ruedi Reservoir means the reservoir presently planned q for constr uction on the F ryingpan River above t he town of Ba salt as part of the prolect h Ashcroft Res v ir means not only the resen oir eontem on Castle Creek a tributary of t he Roar plated for constructionalso Fork River but unless t he context requires otherwise mg any otller resen oir thllt may be onst ructed in the Ro ring Fork Bas n aboH the town of Aspen in lieu of that reservoir c f s means cubiC feet of water per second of time 1 l 3693 RUEDl DAM AND RESER OIR COLO 2 The Ruedi ReHo oir shall he constructed and maintained on the Fryingpan River abo e the town of Basalt with fill active capacity of In addition thereto ano in order to Hot less than lOO OUO acre feet offset adverse stream flow conditions on the Roaring Fork River above the town of Aspen which might occur as a result of the project en lal cremcnt of tIle Twin Lakes Reservoir the Ashcroft Reservoir on Ca tle Creek or some l esen oir in lieu thereof shall be constructed on the Roaring Fork drainage above Aspen to a capacit y of ap fee Pl o virlerl however That the Ashcroft proximately 000 a e lleted oir shall he r unst l y If the SeC llJary of the Intenor onl ReseT shall determine that its benefits exceed the fter a appropriate study easts All of sueh stored water shall he released mider the conditious and limit a tiol s hereinnfte set forth I 3 The reim bu rsn IJle cost of construction of the Rued i Reservoi r sha ll be n clmrgB at ainst t he Frying pan Arkansas project to the extent of 7 600 000 The lem Lining reimbursable c ost of const rllct ion of the Ruedi and Ashcroft Reservoirs or HlIhstitutes t herefor shall be returned as if thewere participat ing projects under t he act of April 11 H 56 70 St at 105 and all net r yenues deriyed from their operation shall he paid into Hie Upper Colorado River Basin fund as pl in sec Ovided of said net tion The cost of perpetual operation and maintenance of 10 Ruelh Reservoir shall be borne by users of project w ter and users of water stored in Ruecli Reseryoir il such proportion as may be det Ined ern by the Secretary of the InterlOr The cost of perpetual Ji c rfition and ma intennnce of the Ashcroft Resel1 oir shall be borne ti of water from that reservoir user by 4 The inclusion of tJle Rlledi Heservoir in the project shall not pre clude the constructioIl of allY other replacement or regulatory reser yoirs on the Colorado Riyer or its trIbutaries above Cameo gaging statIOn 5 The Ruedi Reseryoir shall be completed a nd in operation before any wuter is di eIied to eastern Colorado by means of the project 6 a The replacement ellpncity of Ruedi Reservoir and any reser voir const ructed in nddit ion thereto is that port ion of t he tot al reser vir c Lpuc ity required to permit proJect di ersions at times when such diversions could not he made because of simultaneous de otherwiS mands of senior diversions in western Colorad o existing at the time of the adoption of these operating principles and shall be so operated to aceolllplish t his pnrpose Water stored in such sh lll be released by the United States upon the request of t he ColOI ado State eng illeer to the extent t hat water would have bee n available to said decreed rights except for stream depletion re 3ultin froIll diversions 7 by this project to the Arkansas V Iley b The regulatory of Ruedi Reservoir and any reservoir pacity ea const r ucted in addit ion thereto is that portion of the total resen oir Tater stored in such eapaclty not needed for replacement purposes category ma y be sold or leased by the United States to waters Usel S in Colorado for any purpose recognized by the laws of the United States PJm ided That t he 6ft Ie of water for use outside the lluturnl basin of the Colorado River can only be Illade with the consent of the Colorado River Tater r onservat ion District Charges for the use of sllch wate f shall be esta blished by the Secretary of the Interior by appropriate mgacity 369 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO 5 aceordnnce with the pa ment ability of such wate r users 7 The prima ry purpose uf Huedi Reservoir and any reserVOIr c m structed in a ddition thereto is to furnish to the extent of its CUPfll lt y in like manner as if the project were cOllstructed by a water conser vanc district organized pursuant to the laws of the State of Colorado the water required for the lJl oteetion of weitern Colorado water u ers by the provisions of Colora lo Re ised Stntutes W53 14 0 13 renchng folJen ls as Howe er allY works or faL ilities plaJllletl Lnn deslg ned for the exportat ioJl of water from the nat ural basin of the Colorado River and its tributa ries in Colorado by allY dist rict created under this art icle shall be suhjed to the provisions of he Colorado Ri er ActAny such works 01 Compact and the Boulder Cnnyon Project fac ilities shall be designerl constructed and operated in suell a manner tha t the present appropriations of water and in ad dition thereto pl ospect i e llSe s of water for irrigntion and other beneficial consump tive use pnrposes iuclmling eOllsnmpt ive uses for domestic mining and indust rial S within th natural bnsin of the Colorado pOSl pl1l Rivel ill the Stnte of Colorado from which water is exported will not be impaired nor inereased in cost at the expense of the wa ter users wit hin the nat ural bilSill The facilities and other means for the aecomplislllnent of sllid purpose shall he illcorpora ted in and illUde a for the exportatinn of water from s Lid nat pInt of nny project plHIl ural hasin in iColor tlo 8 Projed diw rsions from Lime Creek shall be 111ade only in t he months of of each year nnless the Colorado Riyer nlll ay Iud J ioll 1Vntel at Distriet shaUl by writtell cOIllJllunication advise Consel the Colorado Stnte engineel that Ind itola di ersiolls can be made I The respe cti e decrees which lIIay ue or h ne bee n awarded to t he parties hereto ns a part of the FI yingpnn llJ a t and ArI prnjcl Basn lt t shall he fuiministered by the pl inls of the State r ope oflil projel of Colorado ill accordallee with the appJil able n ws of t he State of Jeedul Colorndo and with the following principles and pl C es to wit 1 ThM t he denlllwl on the waters tnailable under h deerees sw hall be alJoeated in the following sequence Fm di ersion to the Ark Ulsas V a dlethl ollg h the collection s stem nnd t he facilitie of lhe Fryillfrpall Al kall ls project in an amount not exceeding nIl aggregate of tfl onn acre feet of l ate 1 in t in fee any yenr hut not t o exceed a t otal agg regilte of 2 1fi2 HOO wre any period of 14 consecllti e rea l S reckoned ill l ont illuin U pro rp ssi e series t nrting with the first full year of rliyersiolls both limit at ions herein being exch sie of ilonar r Fork exchnnges n provided in 0 below lllrl exclusl e of dn erslOIls for the Busk Inlnhoe decree a nd wit h t he further and absolnte limitation t hat in order t o protect xist ing and future Lp netkinl uses of water ill western Colorado including recreat ional a nd fishing yaluesl the Stllte engineer shaso rtgulate the tnlJlSmollnt nin di el sions above referred tOI t o the end that no hit h will reduce he re l1 tining di ersions shall be made aggregate st re Ul1 flows to less t han elthe r of the mlllllllU1l1 standards fOlJowlIl i The Fryingpan colledion system ad he points of diversion collectively exclusive of Lime Creek Iii cd s October 1 h throul March 31 30 c f s April 1 hrough September 30 contraet in 369 6 RUEDl DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO ii Near Norrie ilmnediately below the junction of North 30 d s October 1 through March Fork and Fryingl an River 31 100 c f s April 1 through Apnl 30 150 c f s M y 1 through May 31 200 c f s Tune 1 through Jlme 30 100 c f s July 1 through July 31 i5 c f s August 1 through August n j 65 c f s September 1 through September 1O In maintaininO the above minimum standards the project diversions sl1a 1l be reguJllt l so far as is practicable in such a manner that the Norl h Fork of the Fryingpan River the Fryingpan River and each of the Iributaries of those st remllS shan contribute to the residual streamflo vs required by those mininnun standards iqeuansti of water in proportion to their natural contrilJutiolls For storage in Ruedi Reservoir to the e tent of its actual b aCl deet capa cit y which is to be not less thaH 1110 000 ailable 0 For 000 acre feet annually 10 t he e tent that it is in e cess of a and b ahove or such part thereof as Illay be reqUIred CfLllal Co in exchange to be deJi el ed to the Twin Lakes Heservoir Fork River for equivalent releases from the headwaters of the ROtll illl Reser whieh would otherwise be diverted through such Twin voir Canal Co collection and diversion system l For any ot her beneficia I use in western Colol udp in accordance with court decree but not herein contemplated 2 e principles requires cOllcurrent The etl ectuation of the nbo Fryi lgpan Arkansas project diversiOll and Ruedi Reservoir storn ge The State engineer to be c ol plished a in the IllanlleI following annually shall collect pertinent data includillg information pert ain ing to sllowpack and all other available evidenee and shall t herea fter so di ide and apport ioll the surface runoff as to achieve as nearly fiS the possible foregoing division of water and t he nUlximwn of eUll cunent d iversions Rnd storuge The liver ions herein contemplated shall be all the b L is uf water hereby detined as that interim of yea October II hrough the following September 30 10 For the protection of recreational values including fishillg on the Fryingpan River below Ruedi oir releases of water from Heser saill reservoir not to exceed t he stre Ull inflow shall be made so that t he streamflow immediately below the junction of t he Fryingpan Hi e l1d Hocky Fork slmll not be reduced below aD c f s f om Novem ber 1 to April 30 and 110 e f s 1a y 1 to October 30 u as actual froml experience or court decree shall hereafter dictate 11 An appropriate written act ont1 may be made whereby Twin Lakes R eervoil Cnllnl Co shllll refrain from diverting wa ter whenever the natural How of t he Boaring Fork TIin r and ifs t l ibu tn ries shall be only suffieient to maintain It flow et lltll to ot less thnn t hat required to inmainta the recommended average flows in t he Ruu ing Fork River immediately above its confluellL e with Difficult Creek nat ural flow of the Roar ill 1 quantity propOltioJlnte to the spective re ing Fork Rive r The recommended ayerage flOWn ahove lIlentioned are flows in quantities ellllHI to t hose reco lIllllel1ded as a 1l1inimUIll immediately above its eonfluence with Difficult Creek according to Iakes J DAM RUEDI 3G95 AND RESERVOIR 7 COLO the following schedule submitted bv the U S Fish and Wildlife Service and the Colorado Game and Fish Commission Month Average second feet October H 35 November DeOl J1lOcr JElnUary h u n 26 Thousands or acre feet AprU nu n d fe Thou t r fav 2 U Julle 100 120 July 100 ti U n se 2 7 Februllry March Month 3 8 August Seplemller Total d H un B nds oracre reet tUl 7 2 3 2 0 40 9 In maintaining the llbove 3nverage at no time shall the flow be reduced below 15 c f s during the months of August to April inclusive or below 60 c s during the months of May to Tuly inclusive providing the natural flow during said period is not less than these amounts The obligation to supply the minimum stTeamAow as set fOT t h in t he above table on the Hoaring Fork River shall to Ihe extent of 3 000 acre feet annually be a project obligation to be supplied from any waters diverted from the south tributaries of Hunter Creek Lime Creek Last Chance Creek 01 any of them The Twin Lakes l eservoil Canal Co shall not be required to refrain from diverting water under its existing decrees from the Roaring Fork River except to the extent that a likequlllltity of replace ment wttter is furnished to said ompany without Chal bre therefor through and by Jlletll S of project di ve1 ions and stOl ag e If by reason of storage capacity III the Ruech mr or any Reser reservoir constructed in addition tllel eto the Twin Lakes Reservoir CunttI Co derives addit ional water or other benefit s or advantages it 1 e realized had this would not 11 t not been constructed t hen projec lIot hiug herein cuntailled shall pl e cnt the project froJll making ap propriate eharges for such water or other beneHts or adnll1tag es All revenues deri ed from the use of water stored in Ashcroft ior Reser shall be used to assist in the repayment of the const ruction operation and maintenance costs of t hat reservoir or any reservior constructed in lieu thereof as mny be determined by the Secret ary of the Interior construct on and 12 All lands acquired and held for project opera tion and W lter surfaces of project reservoirs will be open to the public for recreational purposes excepting those areas reserved by the operat ing agency The project will he operated in sllch a manner that those in Colorado using project water imported from t be Colorado er Basin for domestic purposes Rhall have preference over those Ri daiming or using water for any other purposes 14 The projed is to be operated ill such a manner as to secure the greatest henetit frolll t lle use and reuse of imported project waters wit hin project boullcbries in the State of Colorado Hi Any and all henefits and rights of western Colorado water llsers in and to water stored in Treen hIoulltain Heservoir as descrihpcl Hnd defined in Senate Document 80 7 jth Congress 1st session sh tllllot be impaired or diminished by this project IG The l roject its operation maintenance and use shall be subject er Basin compact of Octo to the provisions of the Upper Colorado Ri 3 1 eastern s3G9 7 RUEDl DAM AND m SERVOlR COLD and the Colorado ber 11 1948 Public Law 37 81st Cong 1st sess River compact of November 24 19 2 H Doc 605 67th Cong 4th sess 17 The Colorado River Water Conservation District of the State of Colorado shall ilacqu e title to storage of water in Ruedi Reservoir and any reservoir constructed in addition thereto by teap ropria proeee dmgs in the courts of the State of Colorado The Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District of the State of Colorado shall likewise acquire title to the water required by the project for di version The Secretary of the Interior shall at a ny to the Arkansas Valley time after the authorization of the project have the option to obtain 01 require the transfer to the United States of auy and all rights initiated or acquired by appropriation as herein set forth P ovided howaer That the rights so taken shall be subject to a beneficial use of such water fiS may be provided in the repayment cont ract or con tracts and subjec t to a ll the operating pr1l1ciples herein set forth 18 No transmollnt Lin diversion of water shall ever be ma de through the collect ion and diversion S St eJll of t he Fl yingpan Arkansas project in exeess of the qua ntitative limitat iolls and condjtions established by tlus document Pruvided lwwe vf That when tUlder the l Lws of the State of Colomdo there may bo additional water available for such collection and di elsion which is not at the t ime of diversion required for beneficinl use in westerll Colorado or for fillU10 interstate water compact then such water may be ofiected and greements a diverted for lllHe in t he iJceniaet lnsas Ark Valley Provided further That such ad it ona diversion shall only be llUlde with the mutual l consent of each of the following agencies of the State of Colorado to wit the Colorado Vater Conservation Board t he Southwestern Water Conservation District the Colorado River 1Vater ConservO tion District and the Southcastern Colorado Tater Conscrvancy District llJ To a ssure project operation in conformity with the operating principle heret ofore st ated to provide a mea ns for the collection and I1U to prO ride a luethod for t he COIl interchange of infonnation t tinned study of project operations to the end that if the lted st operating principles Jnay be improved upon recommendations for changes ma y be made to the cont racting part ies a eommission shall be created in an appropriate manner to be composed of one repre senta t iv e of Ute Sout heaHtern Colorado Vater Conservancy District one representM ive of the Colorado River Vltter Conservat ion Dis trict two representatives of the Unitrd States and one repl esentati e of the St ale of 0101 10 appointed by the CoJorado Water Conser Va tiOll Boa rd after consultation witlI the Colorado Tame and Fish Commisiion The poW ers of slwh commission ll be limited to the Hha collect ion of data the TIluking of findings of fact and the suggestion of changes in operating principles These openltillg principles shaH Le deeme l to haTe amended and t a ke the place of tJlOse operating principles signed anu execut ed on April 30 105D These operating principles shan be nel do const i tute It contract between thE lSitOlgl pa rt ics amI shall inure to the benefit of and shall be and rel1lltin binding IIjJon s tid p rties their r spect ive succe ors and assigns 3698 Executed 1959 RUEDI as DAM AND RESERVOIR amended at Dellver Colo 9 COLO this 30th day of December DO VATER CONSERVATION BOARD McNrcHoLs Chairman ao VCNlf i State of Colorado COLOR By STRn AUest FELIX L SPARKS Director and 8ecretaJ Y SOUTHEMiTERN COLORADO VATER C01 SEHVANCY DISTRICT By J SELBY YOUNG President Attest retm y J E SHOUN Se By Attest ER VA1 CONSERVATION DISTIUCT COLORADO RIVJo R Cy T HANSEN P e8ident PWLIP P S By Attest nTH S coretmy SOUTHWESTERN VATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT IRA E KELLY President ARCHIE B TONER 8eoretalY 1 60 112351 2 3699 PROPOSED REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF RECLAMATION V S DEP lr lENT RTl OF TilE ISTI RIOR HVREAU OF HECLAM TION 1 159 lI D O Odober 13 uddngt CRETARY OF THF INTERIOIt SIR This is my proposed report on Ruedi DUIll and Reservoir which is a potent ial feature of the proposed Fryingpnn Al kan as project Colorado This report is p esented as a supplement to the re port on the Flyin 1n Ar mnsas project whi ch was printed s House Document No IS 83d Congre s It dcscrJlJes an alternatIve phUl for replacerllent storage nn the Fryingvall Riycl in lieu of the Aspen Dam and Reservoir originally proposed on the Hoal ing Fork HiveI Seleetion of the Ruedi site for replacement storage for the Frying pan Arkansas project and for other purposes is the reslllt of extensive studie8 of the potential alternative sitc8 and confereHces lllllOng all interests in the State of i1l1o Colol and the eoneel ned Federal agencies The plan is to build HlIedi Dam of slIffieient height to Hen e multiple purposes in the Colorado Ri er Basin as well as to sen e its replace The S for the Fl yillgpall ArkaIl8 ts project III order to set of operilting pl ineiples as quoted in tlw lIns eell ag reed UpOIl by the several lOl 1l1 fmtities ill oJ ed and otfiei llly executed by the G H erllor of Colorado as ehairman of the Colorado Vetter COIl I ation Boald The Huedi Thm 11 1 n s rYoil site is m ated Ull the yingpnn Fr Hiver a tributary of the Hoal ing Fork and the Colorado Rin r Ileal t he town of Has llt Colo The dllm would IJe an eal thti JI structure rising 270 feet alX c the stre lI11hed It would ereat e a reservoir of ahout lOO OOO acl e foot capacity covering an lln l of 1 000 ael es The cost est imat e based UpOIl T l1ll1aI Y J 9 is j priees preliminar 12 8 J1 OOO The ost of the ol ig illully pruposed 28 OOO utl e foot Aspen Dam and R l yoir SE i fillO nno was estimHted at The Fl yillgp IIl 1nSfl Ark t was tlllalyzed and just ilied on the hasis of this cost for replace projet ment storage di Dam llnd ReseI oil will SilH e the the Rllt form pel same fundion o far as t he Fl ls kans project is eOllcel lled yillgpan Al that alllount is assiglletl as a Fryingpnn Al knnsas project costl Jeav he cost of Ruedi to he allocated among multiple ing 5 281 000 of t ll westel pUI pmi uses OIl the slope The Hegionnl Dil ectol report ment function implement this pInn llllew Hegiollal Director s report 10 3700 RUEDI proposes t he ern slope DAM AND RESERVOIR aIlocl tioll 1 following tentative 11 COLO of costs to west assignable lIse Reimbursnble 3 300 700 l lnnicipnl aud ilJdustrinl wuter NnllreiwiJurMble Flood c ontl ol ish lid wihllif 117 O u 1 7 7 800 55 000 Reerell ti 011 rotnL 1 u n 000 300 of Ruedi Reservoir together with facilities for forecast iOopenmt ontl ol of snow l ulloff snowmelt I IlIl afford virtually complete ing Annunl flood control Ilwn Hoods in the Fryillgpan River atershed henefits baseoupon dabl supplied bv the Corps of Engineers would be about 11 000 A It hough the lt iteh of Fl yincrP lll Hi er which would be inunuated by the reset voir now su ports u important t I OIlt fishery the net etf rct of project oper ltion will lie bt ndieial to fish The stabilized releases from the dam will e tish hllbitat downstream ann the reservoir impro will H o irlegre ntel nshing opport unitil 5 th tn t he reach of thl natural stream involved The 1islt llld ildlife SelTi e est imates an annual Hement of the fishery project benelit of H 72 OnO dut t o enhl Con idel ble lse will be Illude of IhleJi Reseryoir fni n crellt ion Pnwisi lll of minimum basic ret l eatioHlll facilities llnd of purposes f lcilities to protect the health and sllfety of the yisitiIlg publie has i e at abollt fJ OOIl This been estimated hy the Nat iollal Park Ser l tt ll to re rentioll Opportunities wiII exist specific cost ha been allo for TIll thet de elopmellt of the recreation pote ntial of Ruedi Rl ser voir unnel t he auministrntion of the For st Service The nml1wl 80 000 the N tionlLl Park been estimated ot recreation be ents by ho I ServiLe l The ncti e capacit y of Ruedi Re el oir in excess of the yingpnn Arkansas project replacement requirements if operated jointly for could supply 70 000 ael e flood ont rol ann eonservlltion Poses pUf 1I as 1l If There are poten feet of usable water in l eritical year slH on er lltion cllpacity for irrigation t ialities 101 futnre use of lIch but it is expected that the development HIlll growth of the oil shale industry will create a prior market for this W lter The value of Huedi Reservoir water for municipal llnd ilHlllstrial llse Was bn ed upon t hl cost of the cheapest aIternl1t i e single pul pose project and 1 000 on 50 32 resulted in annua equivalent eos s of j 4 15 000 and and IOO year periods of analysis ely respecti Considering ollly the portion of the cost of Ruedl Dam and Res ltor ul en oir assignable to weste1 n slope Ie y storage sinee t he portion assignable to the Fryingpllll A1 knllS ls project has been found finf1n j ied feasible 111 1 economically just it ill the 111l llyses of HUlt project ial1 Jp ratios of lIl11llal be lIents to lllllllal costs for that part of the den l ment arecalt ulaterl thm I j HlO I lT IInilrsls nnue netlts hp n u Annt1il l Ust Ratio or hendlh to COSts n n u n u p i IO 208 0 J 3 20 to 1 L nMI 1 Si86 50U 1 300 3 57 to I ea r l si 370i 12 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO TIle total reimbursable investment allocated to municipal amI inrlust ria l water supply reasofll1bly can b exp te d to be repa id wit h interest under prorisions of t he Water Supply Ad of lU S PuhlIc Jopdere Law S5 00 A substantiaJ demand for such water will to be on a conllnercwl scale e l rrin utIlIzed rese lTes when the oil shale probably within 10 yea rs of tllO completion of eonst ruct ion of Huedi In th a h 2RHCe t t his t inw of agenl ies or organizations quali DtUl1 fied to c ont re plI YIJIP nt of j he eo t assigned to deferred IllWlic ract fo necu y th lt the State of iI a 1ll1 indust ri t water supply it will he tal of this report t o t he Colomdo prior to t l I llsmi oJlfFress furnish rea sonable assura Ilce 1S to fULtu lj repayment as reqUIred oy the Vater SUJlply Act of IfJ S ted to Hood control would lld Hesen oir a lloc U of Ruedi Dam ll Cost bB nonreimbursable ill a ord wce with existing laws Those allo cated to fish and wildlife a nd minimum basic rccreatioll tl facilities we reeommend be lonreimhursl ble l The Dperating principles which are quoted in full in t he Heg lonal ctor Dire s re port are gc ne rally accepwblc as a basis of t Op 1 a Ji pr tion and Wtl intend t hat thoy shaJ control t lle physical operat ion of the ollle of the IH o isiolls JH 1 re en l Fryingpan Al k msas PJ oje ct not comp tible with reclamation law and policy For example the reimbursahle portion of t he cOllst ruct ioIl cost of Ruedi Da m and Reservoir Hot cha rged to t he Fryjnbrpan nsas Arka project is expected to be allocat ed to municipal nd illdllSki d water supply Public La w 485 permit s ppol tioned le eHaes to be used to rep yonly il rig tion costs whereas section 3 of the operating Jll in ciple would provide for apportioned re enues to h JIied in repay s ment of costs nllocllt ed to munic 1ipn and industl ial wa ter supply In any event we do not contemplate and our planning report is not pre misedon the basin fund being used to provide assist ance ill the repay ment of mWlicipa 1 and indust ria l costs of Rurdi Dilm and Rpservoil In order to woid iunbiguit ies and to void possihle future c ontlic ts meh irwonsist encie s nlong with cert ain ot her point s largeJy tee lUlienl In natllre will 00 disellssed wit h the ta te t t this ha during tJle pe riod proposed report is ueing coordinated with the atfeeted States wit h t he objective that they be resolved before the final report on Rlledi Dum l voir is transmitted to 1 he and R COllgre ss Subject of eotlrse to considerat ion of c olllments re cei ecl I rccom me nd that you n pprove a nd adopt this 16 your proposed report on Ruedi Dam and Reservoir a nd that you authorize me on yom behalf to fceted St tes lid to t he Secretary of the tr smit it to lie for offiCIal revw v alld c omment III accordanee with the provisions of the Fl od Control of li 44 to t h Sto te of Colorado as reqllil OO by Ac tlle Flsh Y ldl1fe CoordmatlOn Act of 1958 and to other nil interested Federal agencies fOl their yiews and c OIHlllents Army Respedfully Appro ed and adopted October 27 WILLIAM T PAL1fERl ActiNg Oom ln 8sioner 9 HI Acting fER F RENNETI EL Secretary of the Interior 3702 1 u s DEPAltTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF RECLAMATION REGION 7 DENVER COLO RUEDI DAl1 AND RESERVOIR SUPL Hf U IEXTING LEl ON THE DOCUMENT No 187 ST SESSION CONGRES 830 REPORT E COLO FRYlNGPAN AUKANSM3 PROJECT ll SE MWm E COLORADO 1959 13 3703 CONTENTS e Pal Transmit tal and l u horit Purpose of report 17 18 18 Acknowlergement s History and backgrolllld Operalirlg princip fi Fryillgpan Plnll of de elopmellL DescriptiotL Geology COllstructiol1 Co 11 u un u rojecl ArkanSl l u un un n u n 27 28 aspectfL t 2U 20 20 ydrology Jnt n roductioll WaterslIpply Deplet iomi iltJriduul water requirement s Iunicipal Rnn Operat ion st llrl L Iutlicipal alJd industrial water 2 u 30 2 i5 35 35 3i u on Leodu Need alld pattern of oil u uu u uuuu uu u hale development Wat er reouirements for oil shale developmellr Sourcel of lI1unicipal ann illdllstrial watt r i water Valllc of lIIunicipal and iltridaull As ociaterl fUllctiolls 18 m 39 u Flood controL Fi h ancl wildlife Recreat ioll h gHon alte n u u W 4U 41 4i 42 u u u GeneraL Cattle Creck arclln 1011111 Sopris arell Blucstone Ilrea SllIllIllElrV Fut lIre iiwp stigation flower aIternati e EeollolJ1ic and fillllllcinl t e lllllv u u uu u U U u 43 u u u u 48 4fl 4n i Cost u u u u 44 44 off 48 u DCllel1t s BCI1 I1t o1 Ulllllvsi L Cost alloc 1t ion Rf payrnE llt il na yis Conel siol ltllrl recollllllcndatiOlIS i C oncl on u 18 20 26 21 27 u 4B u u u u 50 50 51 sa 51 501 u Hf clIl11lrlcndilt iol APPENDED MATEHIALS A Ldt r report Corps of Engiru er Appelldi fen orandllm report Fish and Wildlife Sp r iee Appendix B Mf mOmlldutll report Natiollal P 1rK SN App ndix C ie llt Cons water It1p l ts halp nt for oil AppC report ndi D reqllin 1060 i5 1I1tants ff port po iule ll t of H lIedi Reservoir for Appendix E Coll fOT mllnicipal all l illrlw t ria wilter for t hp llwetin slorag e req lin ment trea in Color ldo oil shale itldlJsl ry RiAe lk B qllf lllix F COIlSlllt utlts report Basalt projeC t ApP 0 5i 50 62 67 Of Hi 3704 16 CONTENTS LIST OF EXHIBITS PlIoge facing 1 West erH 2 Colorado Hivt r Basin abo e Urn nrl JunctioIL RlIcdi Dm d igu d win Z lullicipalnnd industrial rf quirl ments Re eroir Municipal and industrial derTll11ld from Rlcdi isioll ni of water Frvingpan Hiver tit RuedL Storage and outflow RlIedi Reservoir J 4 5 0 7 lope fL arl u u u 17 17 3acillg26 fncillg 31 33 5 fil cing facing 35 t 1 SOUTH PLATTE RIVER G rond Pou Tunnel fhoud Ditch Tunnel Rober Pass OUch nYlIr Augu 1011 1 It DIVERSIONS RIVER WATERSHED Colorado hed U S 8 R Potential Springs Tunn 1 RlvIf Wat tlNlT PROJECT Plol Diversion J Prajee Divide Diversion Tunnftl Ditch Po HoosIer Frftmont Ewing Ditch Columbine Wur DItch 0 Arkonso Tunnel Arllansos Carlton Laic Tunnel Ivonholl via Sout CREEK CAT n E CLIFFS DIVIDE D liv ry mod Twin Busic Fryingpon z @l Fryim pon CV @ @ fl TO ARKANSAS TRANSMOUNTAIN Denver J9 9 DEVELOPMENT Tunnel D Project WATERSHEO @ Eurdo TO @ R Adorns Tunnel US S Colorado Big Thomp on River Ditch @ a Moffat OUch @ Jones D Poss in SHALE Construc ion Harold Boreo Denver @ @ @ Undsr OIL 0 101 1070 No Jl II RIVER SOUTH 1060 10 PLATTE BASIN 0 22ZO v mHHH t t LOCATION MAP POTENTIAL EXHIBIT EXPLANATION TUNNEL LANDS RESERVOIR ARABLE EANAL EXISTING TUNNEL RESERVOIR CANAL PUMPING THE STATES PLANT INTERIOR BASIN RECLAMATION 59 19 2 0 HYDROELECTRIC POWERPLANT Olilln rship no delineat8d OF OF UNITED DEPARTMENT BUREAU 6 0 PROJECT JUNCTION RIVER GRAND COLORADO ABOVE ARKANSAS MILES 700 0 OF AUGUST COLORADO SCALE 382 COLORADO FRYINGPAN DENVER 0 0 I EXIl181T Rn 1 L1 I I t 1 31 I i L k r 0 11 Q l c 1 ITS l VU I i t r r Dl I n I J 0 AP 110N s to WHITE r IlU D lR k il I f l C v 1 CO PITKIN II f N d L cL l 1l t f D IJ4 Jt I 10 A tX t Q l T C J D Pf J1 s i f Jej I o OcliHlIOr cO r a iOf I 0 I t u M S u POk l rro PlT OEP 8UllUU fRT r ol ARX GPAI OU IT y R COLORADQ 0 0 face r HR M 17 No I O TlO 6 S PROJECT 392 100 AUGIl5T 5 L t 1 To IlHl COLORADO R 23 SUlt5 O O WESTERN SLOPE AREA 0 GUl l lHll 1 r 1 T f f IO C Jl L UlS U u r l I f 1I1T101l11 u o o MOIP hO 4 I I n CONTINt r rrWI I O I t 1 RIO OJII S UIO U I UIITIN I 1 llAl OT 1 1 lOIol l 0 l O oJ f DI 1 OTt f 1 r L O H I l ii lU I 0 f rl OS TOlo 180 i m It O l 1 Go HSAf nllC p N Jltil jf 1 OI JOl II go u t511 ot 3707 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO U S DEP o RTIn NT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF R Ecr AMATION HEGIO AL OFFICE HEGION 7 f DI3lL CI Colo September 135 1959 To Commissioner Attention 700 From Director Subject Report 011 Ruedi Dam a nd Reservoir supplementing the re port on the Fryingpull Arkansas oject House Document No 187 8 3d Congress 1st session TRA1iSMITI AL 1iD I AUTHORITY This is my report on the Rueeli Dam and Reservoir potential fea es of t he FrYIllgpnn Arkallsas project The Rueui Dllm and Reser OIl are proposed as subst itutes for the Aspen Dam and Hesel yoir insof tl as replacement water and water for future use in western Colonlllo are t oIlcerned In additjoll to satisfying requirements stem ming from operation of the Fryingpan Al kansas project and from policy of the State of Colorado as expressed in the Colorado Water l voir would Rese Conservancy District Act Rlledi Dam and provide laclditona storage capac ity and water for use in western COIOI IHlo Substitution of Ruedi Dum and Reservoir for A en DU Ill and Reservoir will in no way affect the rem inder of tife Fryingpan Ark nsas project Vestem slope water collection features on plan the Fryingpall RIver Iso mlled Fryingpan Creek and Hunter Creek the Continental Divide tunnel and nII eastern slope features a nd eilities fa remain uncha nged from those set fort ll in House Doc u ment No 187 83d Congress 1st session and as modifie d in some de tails in test imony before the Senate and House Irrigat ion and Rec laUl tion Subcommittees of the Interior and Insular Affairs Com mittees in the 83d 84t h and 80th Congresses The quantity of water to he diverted to the eastem slope likewise will not be changed It remains at an annual average of 60 200 acre feet for the period 44 1911 Although the estimated construction cost of Ruedi nun and Reser voir exceeds the est imated cost of Aspen Dam and Resen oir the re vised operating principles provide U t the financial obligation at tached to the rkan as be Iimi ed to the estjn ate d FryingpaIL proiect cost of Aspen Dnm and Resen ulr or l l1st 1 lO OOO 6 file econonllC fication and feasibility of t he Fryingpllll Arkansas project t herefore are not a ffected bv t he itsubst utiun of Ruedi Dam and Reservoir ltpprova This report and appended mater 1 s are submit ted for your and for departmental action with 1 view tow rd securing approval of the substitution of Ruedi Dam and ReservoIr for Aspen Dam and it h congrcssionfll authorization of the Fry Reservoir in connection ingpan Arkn nSlS project tll 17 370 SRUEDI 18 DAM OIR COLO HESER AND is ro Authoritv to Il1l1ke t his report and supporting investig atiolls 17 1902 32 stat lct of Tune laws l lation ech vided in the Fedenlll or stlpplemeJ1t tjl Y thereto thereuf acts aJllendatol and 388 Y l URl nSE F ImpORT of Rnedi Dam ll lId Reservoir u d to nnalyseof lte w from the 1 e e volI western of slope lIses potential appraisal It is not within the scope of t he r pol t t l eeXalllllle the feaslhl hty of the Fl yillgpan Al kullSaS JJI o ect It the light of ClllT nt tost estlTllat s 11llcl proce Lllll es HlId the latest av nI1nbl hyclrologlc present uch evaluat lOIl wIll be made engineel lIlg and econOI1lH dat a pamtely se Because of lUTIlt atlOlls of t une and 1Il estlgnt1on funcis t he st w hes and estimates llllderJyillg the report are of reCOn lllisstl1 e 7r H1e wIth Ruedl lzed Huthol Should Lhe Fryillgpall Arkansas project be Dam and Reseryoir as an integral featl1re it will be necessar y to pro to l l1Iille det gram and conduct furt her studies of all potential uses the 1I10SL benctici ll HIle desi lble operating plnll fur t l T f seryoir This report is lilllitecl policies GE CKNOWLEI n NTS ThrOlwh t he Colorndo Vllter Conservation Board t h Stute of Colorad llas contributed funds for investigations required for this report a ncl for the reexaminat ion of t he Fryingpan Arkansas project the r esults of wJlidl will be presented to committees of Congress next year Responsible field offices of the Corps of Engineers Department of the Army and the National Park SelTice and Fish and Vildlife Servire hot h of the Depart ment of t he Interior have conducted re connaissance in the fields of flood control reereation and fish a nd The Forest Service Department of Agricul wildlife respectively ture was consulted by the National Park Service on recreation ts aspec of he Ruedi Dam and Rescr oir The Colorado Department of Game a nd Fish has collaborated with t he Fish and Wildlife Service in studies for this report The Vater fition Conser District has prel ared materia I orudo Col on lrngatlOn of the potentIal Basalt project CaW Creek Ulllt and part of Mount Sopris unit both of the Fellern Cliffs Di ide project The Burea u of Reclamation has not had the funds and time to review 01 evalaate this material on the Basalt project RegIOn 4 of the Bureau of Reclamation in Salt Lake City aud its project office in Grand function ColD ha e re iewe d and SlIIill1l1u ized the mlmicipal and industrial water studies of the St ate of Colorado and have prepared seetions of this report on alternative uses of wat er for irrigation HI During TORY ND HACKGROUND the original feasibi1it investigations of t he Fl Jan ying pro eet the Colorado Water Conservat ion Boa rd organized a polIcy and review committee to study and review plans anti reports OIl the On JllllUUTY 19 19 H t he committee completed 11 rec project ommende cl d nft of pl o ied operating principles whidl was incor porated III Honse Document No 187 Those principles reA cterl rka lsas 3709 HUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO I 19 eastern llnd western slope agreement Oil project operatiOl s Ilnd pro vided various measlIres fO the protection of dghts and Iuterests of The principles Iso recog the people on both slopes in Colorado nized Aspen Dam and Reservoir of 28 000 acre fet stor g capacity as n essential feature of the Fryingpan Arkansas proJect plan stel we l That reservoir was to furnish wh l required for protectIOn of Colorado water users in accordallce wit h provisions of section 1 chapter 1D2 Colorado Session r aws 1M3 reading as follows ld lll S planned fliciliti deliiglled for That any works or ot water from the natural basin of the Co ora lo Riwr and its tributaries in Colorado by any district created nnder tbis chapter shall be Ct to the provisiolls of tbe Colorado River Compact Uld the Bouldt r Canyon suhjl Project Act as amended that any such works or facilities shall be designed onstructed Rnll operated in such a manner that tb present appropriatiolls ot water and in addition thereto prospective uses 0 water for irrigatlon and other beneficial consulllptive lH e purpo5e including commmptive lI es for domes tic mining and industrhll purposes within the natural basin of the Colorado d will not be Im Rlver in the State of Colorl ldo fcom wbkb water is eXlX cte paired nor in rensed in C08t at the expense of the water users within the said for the accomplishment natural basin menn and that the t acilities and other at Mid purpose shalI be incorporated in and made 8 part of any project plans for tbe exportation at water ITm suid natural basin in Colorado Provided the hOWeVe1 e xPort1l UOD AJt hough the original opel llt iog principles were intended to achieve full agreement on all aspects of the Fryingpan Arkansas project within the State it became apparent during C ongre ssional hearings that western slope interests objected to concerning Aspen Dlll1l and Reservoir the As project pl n particularly result in ID58 the Colo rado 1Vater COllsernltion Uonrd instigated considerntioll of a sub The bon ru 1e stitute replacement reservoir for the Aspen feature qm ted the Bureau of Reclamation to undertake such st udies and con tributed funds und personnel to finance and assist in the investiga All of tions Various alternat ive reservoir sites were onsidere cl them except the Ruedi site were rejected because of geologic water sl1pply or other imitations The Bureau of Rclalllntion had previollsly ma de preliminary in vest igations of the Ruedi site as all alternative for the Aspen lite le RI Platte and as a potential feat ure of the lOW obsolete lth So projeet ille tigatioll Considerable engineering and hydrologic data were available Oil the Ruedi site from these eal liel t udies The geology and wat er supply cOllditions ilt t he Ruedi site permit the development of a b rgeI reservoir than was contemplated above Aspen hence the plan for Ruedi provides for u reservoir of approxi mately 100 000 acre feet of storage capacity as contrasted with 28 000 acre leet in Aspen Dam ann Rcsen oiI Ruedi Reservoir therefore will not only meet the replnce ment requirements of the Fryingpl111 Al kanSllS project but will provide an addit ional regulated water supply for other uses on the western slope Following select ion of the Huedi site the Colorado Vater Con sm nltjon Board leeollst ituterl fL policy a nd 8 ie w committee for the 1 F lyingpa l A rka nsa Tflnmu 1 on v 1 10fJD The committee project consisted of representatives of the Colol a do Vater Consen ation Board t he Colol ado Ri er Water COllsel nltiou District the South ea st ern Ootorado Vater Com e1Ya 1 cy Dist l id a nel the Colorado Ga me The reviseu operating principles were com and Fish COlnlllj jioll it 2037 i 0 RUED DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO pleted and apprm ed by the policy and review committee ud the These operatmg pnnClples Governor of Colorado 011 April 30 1059 in House icnoednta the in full original principles quoted supersede DoclUnent No 187 OPERATING PRINCIPLES FHYINGPAN ARKANSAS PROJECT The construction and operation of the project iIn o ye the di ersioIl of water from the headwaters of t he Fryingpan River and other tribut ries of the Ro ring Fork Hiver to the Arkansas River Basin The project contemplates a the mu ximum conservat lon and use of water b the protection of weste rn Colorado w ter uses both exist in accardo nee with the declared policy of the ing lind St at e of Colorado and 0 the presen ation of recreational values In order to aecomplish such puq DSeS the project shall be ope rated by t he United St tes in compliance with the Federal reclamation I ws the laws of t he State of Colorado relating to t he n tp ropria ion use or distribut ion of Witter a nd the following operating principles 1 As used herein 11 Project rneans that certain enterprise pla nned and de Reclioan nmt signed by the Bnre u of Department of t he Interior for the t ranslllollnt ain diversion of water from the headwaters of the Fryingpan River nd other t ributaries of the Ho ring Fork Ri er to ti e bnsin of the Ark lIlSlLS River together with a ll of its appurtenant works and facilities in both eastern and western Colora do b Eastern Colorado Ill ns t hat portion of the State of Colomdo lying wit hin the natm al drainage basin of the Arkansas River NOTE TIle principles printed herein h ve been superseded See amended principles dated Deeember 30 1950 tmnsmltted by letter of 1 a nuary 15 1060 from Mr Felix L Sparks director Colorado Water Consermtion Bo rd to Secretary of the Interior Fred A SeatDn c Vestern Colorado me ns that portion of the State of Colorado lying within the natuml dmimlge basin of the Cola r lo River and sened by diwrsions lllltde from the Colorado Ri er or its tributaries above its confluence wit h the GUIUlison River Il Southeastern Colorado Vater Conserv wv Dish ict means tlmt enhty created tD cont ract for payment to the United States of n a ppropriate portion of project costs alloc ted to eert in w t er uses in eastern Colorado e Colorado Ri er Lter Conserv tion District means tlmt 8 a 140 entity created by Colomdo Revised St tntes 1953 amended Rotential Southwestern Lter Consermtion Dist rict f me ns tlmt nhty cre ted by Colorado Re ised Statutes 1953 149 9 as amended Ruedi Reservoir means the Oir reser g presently planned for eonstructlOn on tile FrYlIIgpan River above the town of BllSalt as p rt of the projeet e 3711 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO 21 Ashcroft Reservoir meallB not only the reseIToir con templatj for constmct ion on Castle Creek a trIbutary of the d Ulres ot er Uoa ring Fork River but also tU11ess the context wise n ny other reservoir that may be on tructed III the ROll lng Fork bllSin xlVe the town of Aspen III heu of that reservOIr c f s means cubic feet of water per second of tune i 2 The Ruedi Oir Reser shall be constructed lUld maintained on the Fryingpan River above the town of B alt with m llct ive capacity of In addition thereto and in order not less tlmn 100 000 acre feet t o offset a h erse streamflow conditions 011 the Roaring Fork Ri er above the town of Aspen whicll might occur as It result of the project Iugement of the Twill Lakes Re elToir the Ashcroft R esen olr on en Castle Creek or some reservoir in lieu thereof shall be constructed on the H aring FOl k drainage above Aspen to a capacit y of approxi ely mat 5 00U ere feet Po j iil g however That the Ashcroft Reser voir ShllU 00 constructed only if the Secretltl of the Interior after y IlppropriM studv shall detel1lline thltt its oonetits exceed the costs prmided hy law with subsequent authorizlttion by the Congress of the United tates and lll by the President appro All of such stored witter shall be released under the conditions llnd ilomnsitM hereilmfter set forth 3 The cost of construct ion of the Ruedi Reservoir llnd any other rese ryoir constmcted in addition thereto shall be a charge llgllinst 7 000 000 The the Fryingpan Arkllnslls project to the extent of in first instance cost of const ruction shall be the from remaining paid Colorado s apportioned shltre of revenues in the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund and in accordance with Public Law 485 Pro viding That when the waters stored in any such reservoir Or reservoirs shall be put to a beneficial use the users thereof sholl pay i11t o the Colorado River Basin fund to the credit of Colorado s share of such fund charges for the uses of such waters in accordance with the principles of recll1mat ion lllW The cost of perpetulll operation and maintenance of the Ruedi Reservoir shllll be borne by users of project water and users of water stored in Ruedi Reservoir in such propor tio11 as may be determined by he The cost of Secretal of Interior y perpetual operation llnd maintenance of the Ashcroft Reservoir shltll user of water from that reservoir be borne by 4 The inclusion of t he Ruedi Reservoir in the project shall not preclude the construction of any other repll1cement or regullttory re SClTOiI S Oil the Colorado River 01 its t rilmtnries uln e Cameo station gaging 5 The Ruedi Reservoir shall be completed and in operation before any water is diverted to eastern Colorado by mellns of the project 6 Th a replacement capacity of Ruedi Reservoir and any reservoir const ructed in addition thereto is that portion of the total reservoir capacity require l to permit project diversions at times when sneh diversions could not otherwise be made because of simul taneous demands of senior diversions in western Colorado existing Ilt the t ime of the adoption of these operating principle llnd shan be so operated to accomplish tbis purpose Water stored in such c llpacity 51mll be released bv the United States upon the request of t he Stat e engineer to the extent thllt water would have been lldo ColoJ h 371 22 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO resll availab e to said decreed rights exeept for stream depletion ing from diversions by this prolect to the Arkansas Yalley Huedi Reservoir and any reservoir b The regulator eapaeity of y constructed in additIOn thereto is that portioll of the total reservoir VnteT stored in such capaeity not needed for replacement purposes category may be sold or leased by the United States to water users in Colorado for any pllrpose recoglllzed by the laws of the Ulllted States PJ o ided That the sale of water for use outsIde the natural basin of the Colorado River cau only be made with the consent of the Colorado Rh er Vater Conservl1tion DistTict Charges for the use of sllch water shall be established by the Secretary of the Inte rior by appropriate contrael in accordnnce wit h the payment ability of such water users 7 The primary pnrpose of Huedi Reservoir and any reservoir eonst ructed in addit ion t hereto is to furnish to the extent of it s capncity in like Innnner as if the project were const ructed by a water conservancy district organized pursuant to t he laws of the State of Colorado the water required for the protection of westem Colorado water users by the provisions of Colorado Revised St atutes 1953 14 6 13 reading as follows However any works or f cilith ro plnnnP nod de igned for the exportntiun l tributaries in of water from the natural basin of the Colorado Rh er null it Colorado by any dIstrict created under tbIs article shall he subject to the proYlsions of the Colorado River cornpnct and the Boulder Canyon ProjPCt Act cOD tructed nnd operated in AllY such works or facilities shull be de6igned Ilnd ill addition 9ueb a manner that the el1t appropriations of wfiter pref thereto prospective uses nf water for irrigation and other beneficial consumll the use purposes including cOIlsumptive moles for domestil mining and indus t rial purposes within the natural hnsin or the Colorado River in the Stute of Colorado from which water is exported will not be impairerl nor Increased in cost nt tIle expense of tbe water user within the natural basin The flleili nid purpose shull be ineor tieflnd oth r means fur the accollllllh hment of porflted in and rnnde H part of flny projeet olJllnn for the Il XTIOl tatioD of water from saId natural hag n in Colorado 8 Project diversions from Lime Cree 1 shall he ma l onl ill tllP months of May and June of eneh year unless thp Colorado River Vater Conservation District shall by writte n communication ad ise the Colorado State engineer to the cOJltrary n The part ies signatory to UIe operating principles agree that the respective decrees which may be or ha e been awarded to the parties hereto as II part of the Fryingpan Arkansas project find Rasalt project shall be administered by the propel oflieials of the in accordance wit h the applicable laws of the State of llflo Colol State of Colorado and more parhcularly by the following principles and procedures to Wlt 1 That the demanl on the waters available under such dpcrees shall be allocated in the following sequence Il For liversion to the Arkansas Yalley through the collec ion system llnd the facil ities of the Frying pan Ark l 1lsas projfct lJl nil 1ll011Ilt f1ot exeeedlIlg fin agg regate of 000 acre fe e t of 120 wilt er 111 32 800 y year lll 1t not to e xceed a totnlnggregat e of n IHTe feet III allY penod of H cOllseeutive yeaTS reckoned in con t inning pIog ressi e sel ie starting with the til t full year of di er iions hath limitat ions herein being exclusive of i o ring Fork exehflllges as p ovjded 111 c below and exclusive of diversions 713 RUEDI DAM AND RESERYOIR COLO 23 for the Busk Ivanhoe decree and with the further and abs lute limitation t ill order to Uw IHtect existing wId future beneficml uses of water ill western Colorndo including recreational and so values the shall Stltte fishing regulate the transm lill engineer t aill di ersions above referred to to the end that no diverslOlls JI be made Wllich will shn 8 tlle rema ining aggregute stl elffi redu to less t han ei her of the following minimum st nlldards flow i The Fryiugpan collection system at the points of di version collectively exclusive of Lime Creek 15 e f s October 1 through Murch 1 30 c f s April 1 through September 30 ii NelLI Norrie inunediately below t he junction of North Fork und Fryingpun River 30 c f s October 1 through March 1 100 c f s April 1 through April 30 150 d s May 1 through May 31 2UO c f s Iulle 1 through June 30 100 c f s July 1 through July 31 70 c Ls August 1 t hrough August 31 65 c f s Oeptember 1 through September 30 In maintainillg the above minimum standards the projed di versions shall be regulated so far ns is pract ica ble in such a mUll ner UnLt the North Fork of the Fryingpan River the Frying pan River and each of the tribut a ries of tllOse st reHlllS shall cont rIbute to the residual streamfloW s required by those minimum standards quantities of water in propOItion to their llatllJ ul contributions b For storage in Rlledi Reservoir t o the extent of its actual capacity Wl1ich IS contemplatoo to be not less t han lOO OOlJ acre feet e For 3 000 acre feet annually to the extent that it is ava il able in excess of a and 6 abo e or such pal t thereof as Illay be required to be delirered to the Twin Lakes Reservoir Canal Co in exchange for equi alent releases from the headwaters of the Roaring Fork River which would otherwise be diverted through sneh Twill Lakes Resen oil CUBal Co coIled ion and diversion ys s m I For all other bene ficin l use in westerH Colorado in fi C cordance with court decree but not herein contempla ted 2 The etfectwLtion of the above principles requires concur rent Fryingpan Arkansas project diversion and Ruedi Reservoir storage to be accomplished in the manner following The State ann neer engi UlIly shall collect pert inent dHt it including infor mat IOn pertUlTllng to nowpack and all other available e idence and shall thel eafter so divide and apport ion the surface runoff os to achieve as nearly as possible the foregoing division of water a nd tJlt maximum of concurrent di ersions and storage The diversions herein contemplated shnlI be on the basis of a wnter hereby defined as that interim of October 1 to the yen i 10 following Septemher F the 30 of recre atjonal vH lues including fishing on the FI1 lI1gpan Bi er below Ruedi Reservoir relea ses of water II Om aid reservoir not to e xceed the st l eam tllflow shall be made so that lm t stTf nmflow immediately below t he junction of the Frvil f nn r River Uld Ro kJ Fork hall not be redueed below 39 c s from November 1 to pril ao and 110 c f s from May 1 to October 0 01 as act lJ 11 e or cOllrt decree shall hereafter dictate experien r protection 24 RUEDI 3714 DAM AND RESER OIR COLO written contract may be nade whereby Twin froIII dlvertlll water when l1I11 shaHrefl Canal Co ever the natnral fhw of the Roaring Fork River and Its tributaries shall be only snfficient to maintain a flow equal to or less than that required to maintain the re commended average flows 111 the Roarl1lg Fork River immediatelv above its conflUllllce with Difficult Creek in a quantity proportionate to the respective natural flow of t he Roaring Fork RiveT The recommended ltverage flows above mentioned are flows in quantities equal to those recommended as a minimum immedi to the foHow ately above its confluence with Difficult Creek accordin in@ schedule submitted by the U S Fish and 1Vildlife bervice and the Colorado Game and Fish COIllmission An n appropriate Lakes Reservoir I Mtllltb rtIre I et I onrj October NO Dc n lc mh n n JlLnu 1 CY FdHUll ry 1r n n lr llb nu n n n n ch n ApriL nn n cre 44 35 29 2IJ 25 24 j r Th ln 15 I Month I 2711 2 1 8 1 r 1 4 15 I I I et 3 8 13 Julle Julyn lJ l u ISL mn u oDlber Sept L Tota 1 I soconlI fret Thnllsanrls racre rcet 1 l 3 120 100 7 1 0 2 lJ A Vt rIlRl fi 2 6 40 9 In maintaining the above averages at no time shall the low be rednced below 15 c f s during the months of August to April inclusive or below 60 c f s Juring the months of May to July inclusive providing the natural flow during said period is not less than these amounts The obliglttion to supply the nlllllmUIll streltm flow as set forth in the ltbove table on the Roltring Fork River shall to the extent of 3 000 acre feet an waters annually be a project obligation to be supplied from diverted from the south tributtries of Hunter Creek Lime Creek Last Chance Creek or any of them The Twin Lakes Reservoir Canal Co shlLll not be required to re frain from diverting water under its existing decrees from t he Hoaring Fork River except to the extent that a like quantity of replacement water is furnished to said company without charge therefor through and by means of project illversions If by reason of storage capacity in the Ruedi Resen oir or any reservoir constructed in addition thereto the Twin Lakes Reservoir Canal Co derives additional water 01 other benefits or 8 1 ant ges it would not have realized had this project not been constructed then nothing heT in contained shall prevent the project from making appro priate charges for such water or other benefits or advantages All reven ues derived from t he use of water stored in Ashcroft Reservoir shall be u ed to assist in the repayment of the construetion lltion opel and maintenance costs of t hat reseIToir or any reservoir constructed in lieu thereof as IIIay determin d by the Secretary of the Interior 12 All lands aCljuired and l eld foJ project construction and opera Jon and water surfaces of project resenOll wlll be open to the S public or reereational purposes excepting those areas reserved by t he operat Ing ageney 13 The project will be operated in such a manner that those iu east etn Colorado using project water inlportf from the Colorado River fl for domestic shall hays purposes preference over those claiming Basir Or USIng water for any other purpose 3715 RUEDI DAM I RESERVOIR COLO 25 in such a manner as to secure the and reuse of Imported project waters within project boundaries in the State of Colorado 15 Any and all benefits and rights of western Colorado water users in and to water stored in Green Mountain Reservoir as described and defined in Senate Document 80 75th Congress 1st session shall not be impaired or diminished by this project 16 The project its operation maintenance and use shall be subject to the prOVIsions of the Upper Colorado River Basin compact of OCto ber 11 1048 Public Law 37 31st Cong 1st sess and the Colorado River compact of November 2i 1922 H Doc 005 67th Cong 4th sess The l roject shall always be operated in accordance with the laws of the State of Colorado and in accordance with the decrees of the State courts of Colorado and decisions of the Colorado StMe 14 The project is to be greatest benefit from the i AND operated use engineer 17 The Colorado River Vater Consermtion District of the State of Colorado shall acquire title to storage of water in Ruedi Reservoir and any resen oir constrncted in addition thereto by appropriate proceedings in the courts of the State of Colorado TIle Southeastern Colorado Vater Conservancy District of the State of Colorado shall likewise acqnire title to the water required by the project for diversion to the Arkansas Valley The Secretary of the Interior shall at any time after the authorization of the project have the option to obtain or require the transfer to the United States of any and all rights initiated or acquired by appropriation as herein set forth PrCY1Jided howcver That the rights so taken 51mll be subject to a beneficial use of such water as may be provided in the repayment contract or con tracts and subject to all the opernt ing prinCIples herein set forth 18 No transmountain diversion of water shall ever va made through the colledion and diversion system of the Fryingpan Arkansas ect in excess of the qUHntit ative limitations and conditions established Vhenever howe er under the laws of the State by this docmnent of Colorado there may be additional water a ailable for such collec tion and diversion which is not at the time of diversion required for beneficial use in ll Colorado or for filling interstate water com westel pact alVeements then sueh water may be collected and diverted for use in tile Arkansas benefiCIa Valley Pmvided howe er That such additional diversion shall only be made with the mutual consent of each of the following agencies of the State of Colorado to wit the Colorado Water Conservation Board the Southwestern Water Con servation District the Colorado River Water Conservation District and the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy DistTict 19 To assure project operation in conformity with the operating principle heretofore stated to provide a means for the collection and mterchange of information and to provide a method for the cont inned study of project operations to the end that if the stated operating nges Principles may be improved UpO recommel dtions for cha rrlllY be made to the contl actmg partIes commlSSlOn shall be created III an appropriate manner to be composed of one of the Presenta ive re Southeastern Colorado Vater Conservancy DistrIct one representa tive of the Colorado River Water Conservation Disfrict two repre sentatives of the United States and one representative of the State of Colorado appointed by the Colorado Vater Conservation Board after proj 5235t 60 3 3716 26 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO Thll consultation with the Colorado Game and Fish Commission data powers of such commission shall be limited w the collection of the making of findings of fact and the sUggest IOIl of changes m operat illg principles These op rating principles shall be and do constitute a cont ract bet weell the signutory parties alld sha lI mure to the benefit of alld shall be and rem Lin binding upon Brud part Ies theIr respectIve suc cessors and assigns Executed at Demer Colo this bOth day of Apr1l1959 VATER CONSERVATION COLORADO BO 4 RO By STEVE McNICHOLS Chai man ovcrnOl Sta te lado Col of Attest By FELIX L SrARK Director and 8ecrdary SOUTHE STl RN COLlIRADO VATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT T SELBY lOUlm l re8idrmt By ly 1 rdf J E SnOTJN S COWRA DO RIVER 1V TER CONSER y TION DISTRICT Cy T HANSEN Presideld Attest Attest PHILIP P SOUTIIWESTERg v By At test l ION A IIU E KELLY ARCHIE B SIITH St f i ctary CONSF R 1V ATER DlSTRIL J Prc ident TU EI Secretm y N OF DEl ELQPllENT PLi De cription The Ruedi Dam and Heservoir will he located on the l inpan Fr River a tributary of the Roaring Fork Hi e r which enters the colo r do River at Glenwood Springs Colo The damsite is abollt 14 miles east of Basalt Colo and about a quarteT of a mile below t he confluence of Ruedi Crook ith the Flyingpan HiveI The reser oil will he aho lt 41h mi es long with a ma XuD um width of about t hree rqltelras of a mile LoclLtion ofthe dam alld reservoir is shown on hot h exhibits and2 Tl e dam will be an ea rthfill strnctUl e with crest elevat ion of7 78 feet mean sea level Crest length will be 1 0 50 feet and heights above streambed and foundation will be 270 feet nd 2DO feet respeetjv y A glory hol type spillway with capacity of 9 250 cubic feet per secnnd will be provided wgether with a tnnnel outlet through the right abut ment of the dam The reservoir ontlet will be by turmel through t he left nbut ment and wiIl hnxe L capacit y of 1 000 c f s Yith normal storage enpacity oJ 100 OOn HlTe feet i hE waleI surface will coveT an area of nbont 1 000 ae res nt leYntion 7 7 4 fe et n1 1 U ineering Ell dctnils are ShOW l OIl the preliminary estimate drawing xhihit 3 11550 S 0 fioo sondf E v Jha t ont pper I r fJrH1tlo 19 o J iJt I rotl po Groul JoleJ glO onh and a Oullet wod 1 cr y 1 I O rf 5cale of Feet po 11I tJ t v RROFLE DevELOPED ON r 6 12 To 9 r 0 i lo om UPP g1 9r 1 J r II L Dr U 9 4d l 0 j f17560 6 1I7514 vrfoce rho e co 1 l 5f cre E l16J oo I ftrVclt1 s s ZOcr oleJ Z I I li 60te C JOlnber c unne 9 s 0 erE tlinn t 7700 OIT 1i j 1600 I 1 f l1tJo o 0 0 0 9 0 t sa let lF C JOt tlo CJC 5tf IIi7 fU41 Bprop 5CIJt1 dJ f 5 d bo in 0 ts 0 of lack iJV ssoI I fI 7505 0 l UNITeD JrAT J THE INTI 4A i ON CI A RUEDI OAM BUREAU O DrPARrllf Nro D D r i RIO II 748JS soo 5000 tZS r50 C 1515 IT UMM1lIf L I NIi Ll i iI TrT D PI3ELlMINARY DTlMA1E DRAWIN6 N RAL ANANO cnoNJ JII6MI7 TI O IiICOMM NO axOIiADO PR rEO A 1 A l d deraJ t a JIjr a fHIIRGt CURVes DI f 11 I 7 1 c ls 5Chor9 g W soo d fOOO JOO AI Jcho dt 000 100 M fIicrl I 48 50 1 ff becOU IS n acres fl1oV 50lJl 5 1 C J YO j 5 d pr fI t EI 7496 house wOrk 000 et OOO Div rSlon 10 2 60 re Ool 11 I ArtJ Spll wtJtj 1Z tJNB O cons rver on mo r o dotq nollo JQJ e in oIl Y I desi9n MIVr ThIS CAPACITY AND JOD Capacity so 0 0 D ad IfI 53 m ooo SO I rRACEO ArtI LJ1 fOtndotion and Nole Thli drtiw liminori Note AltA l ooo OUTLET WORIO so oZII OQ J lS 0 o o oos surface cOr en 5 @ to ov e pioe I toot l2ov9 mln 7LE PR0 dep Ori9ina 9round r 18 Jcoh of fe PROFILE ONi OF SPILLWAY f 1100 tfO 14 9 Oio funnel C O W p hole 100lo 6 n ltP sltd 9 86 f to support not shown s jECTlON BB o JUTON Tunnel 0 I to Scale of feet I Scale of ff o 5f9 6rou dt p rraJhrock 0 5ECTON AA ro fl17465 o XJR o 18 Jlw r arAOJl md cOIJ9 Maroon rormafiol1 6I u WJ f1771U M Q Rt50c t b Red r Maroon rormot on NIo e orlrou oml qce Splll sClr sontPfon l Vp cobble fi I Rock and R I L Ort9 nol 9rollnd CClIOF0 dmin jo 7Jm or t or CUTOFf WALL t 3718 Designs a are aibble Geolfj RUED subject DAM AND to modification RESERVOIR 3S COLO 27 additional infonnation becomes 1 J lPriminel Y g eologic inn st igations in the dam find reservoir area The Fl yimTpan River in flowing made in 1 4 and 1048 west ward to meet the Roaring Fork ive r i os es a series of forma tions of Paleozoic age The damsite oecupies a nal row gOJ f e cut into red colored sandstones and shale the upper J lrt of t he Maroon These l siYe strata dip steeply m formation of Pennsylvanian a e lownstrenm clue to fault inO lnd folding in the loral area Th ent ire 1 farooll formation as expo d in the vicinity appears to be about 2 500 feet thick with some 1 000 feet of upper red sandstones underlain by in tUl ll llei li 1 000 feet of llltel nating bllfl olored siltstones and tone resting on a bed of YPSI1J1l ex eeding GOO feet ill t ltil kness The l egionld stl udure is that of a pl1lllging antidine the rier cutting a steep canyon across the upper reu sandstune hogback 1 lth t he basal gypSlIlll being exposed in the resen oir 01 central anticlinal area near Hllel1i The gypsnm bed necessarily underlies the dam at a depth of ill occur at less depth about LOOO feet The int l ening limestones As it matter of jud ment the proposed reservoir will pl O e s ltisfac tory from n seepag e standpoint but this conelusion must be checked by deep drilling lllHl detailed gcolog ical work 1ssiv m TIle immediate fmllldatioll for the dnrn consists of sand stone strata 1 to 4 feet thick with illten ellillg lJe sll layp 1 s These beds dip Jo n tream to 400 lltl s rike llOl thwestel r 10 The roek is considembly jointed nile systl llI rikes t t alld dips llorthen tl 10 to 900 to the southeast tlw 8 r otlw s northwest flipping 100 ikl to 40 to the northeast A fault of unknown elwrndrr dipping 700 dnwllstl eam Cl osse t he I allyon illllllt dintely upstl eHlH from the dam The extent and sig nitiCl1l e of this fault must be determined before the g eologica 1 situation is thoroughly Ul1del StoorL Eii ht exploratory holes were lrilled in 1 148 at the dams tc The foundation rocks appear ndequately stable for const ruction of an earth dam Ifoweyer further hilling is required to evnluate fully reservoir and damsite Vllter pressul a tests eepage conditions indicate that grouting will be necessary to control seepage of water 1IIllIer and around the dam Prospecting nnd testing of the several types of a nilable mlteriah wil be necessary prior to design and eonstrllctio n It is probable that at Irnve can be located in the lsfaetor deposits of silt sand and g r iervoir re a ea for impen ious semipervjous a l l pen iolls emb Jlk n cnts reqUlred for the proposed enrth dam brave s In the nUlOUS l er terraces nJ d in the riycr ehannel I uerin l III part from granitic nnd metanH l plllC ar as in the upper reaches of the Fryingpan River probably WIll be SUItable for concrete a glep ate ClifTs of IaroOJo sfLJ uIstones are exposed dowllstremn from the dlllllsite wluch lppear utable for l Jprltp ere o Cf n tructjo n vpects of the dam and respn oir ill require the acquisition Of flbout 1 luOO acres of laml 11l0 t of which is in pl ivflte ownl3rship area Includes about 2 1 Hcres of farmlands T whieh are rlevoted to prodllCt ion of nat ive la The rp hay under COJlstruc9on gel irrigation mailling 3719 28 RUEDl DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO of 1bout 600 acres of medium land 1ring Cle is timber or grnzinl be will It necessary also to relocate 1pprOXI timber will be necessary Highw No 1Y miles of two lane gmvel surfaced State 1lely 71 m a like mileage of and area reservoir the 104 which now traverses telephone line Rio Grande The nearest mil head is a branch line of the Denver Western Railroad at Basalt Colo slightly more than 14 miles from The nearest source of elect ric the damsite 1 State Highway 104 vi s 115 kilovolt tmnsmission of Colorado is Co the Public Serdce power line about 1miJe 1way There are no adequate living quarters near the reservoir site for The cost estimate provides for adequate construction personnal Most of these units will be temporary type for use during area housing construction One will be permanent t ype so us to provide continued housing for a dam tender after completion of construction Oosts is of reconnaissance ervoir o The eost l stimate for Ruedi Dam and Re A OIl construction prices as of J annary 1959 find is based grade SlIInmary of the estimate follows ldt ttified fJ operty and amount Land nod rights Relocnti1ms Clenri ng lands u 150 9 fi50 33G 2 095 55 and splllway General property and service facilltieSl Investig lltiun8 engineering nnd other C08t L Dam ontlet works Recrea tion facili ties Estimated 185 000 300 000 000 000 000 000 000 12 831 000 project cost The operating principles specify that Ruedi Dam and Reservoir must be in operadon before diversions of water are made to the enstern the con slope by the Frying pan Arkansas project As scheduled in con the total Arkansas for the struction program project Fryingpan The first year would be devoted struction period covers 6 years mainly to preconstruction activity the following 4 years to active con stnlCtlon of the dam and reservoir and the sixth year to minor work of Construction funds are scheduled as follows completion Fiscal year 100 1063 1064 AmOURI Fiscnl 500 000 1005 3 350 000 3 680 000 1000 100T Con yenr AmouRI 3 000 2 040 000 255 000 Estimated annual operation maintenance fwd replacement costs total 19 700 eonslst inF of 9 200 on the dam Hnd reservoir llnd 7 500 for The last sum includes 10 500 on recreation tacilities administration operation and maintenn nce and 3 000 for replace The construction costs interest during construct ion a nd oper ment ation mainte1utnces and replncement are subject to allocation be tween the Fryingptln Arkanotls project and western slope uses of the reservoir 2J 37 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO 29 HYDROLOGY IntJ I I ction odu In terms of water supply and storage capacity Ruedi Dam and Reservoir will be more than a substitute for Aspen Dam and Reser yair The wat er supply and storage Spttce in Rue i which is not required for replacement purposes cfLn serve benefiCIal uses on the western slope in Colorado The reservoir also would provide uses HI a benefits for such associated flmctions as flood control fish and wildlife conservation and recreation In view of the vast oil shale reserves in western Colorado the extensi e investments made in experimentation and acquisition of shale lands and t he imminence of commercial oil shale development the teuta re plan of operation adopted for analysis in this report j is based on use of water for municipal and industrial purposes Water 8 Pl ly No historical streamflow records of the FrvingplUl River are avail able at the Ruedi Dam site However riverilow records are available at the former ThomasvilIe gaging station about 6 miles upstream from the damsite for a lO yea r period Wll to 1920 The Thomasville gaging station commanded a draina ge area of 175 square miles as contrasted with n 22S squnre mile fl rea aboye the Ruedi Dam site tigations s in recent years the undepleted flow During prexlous inve of the Fryingpan River at the Ruedi Dam site was computed Tor a 4 yeal periorl 1911 to 1944 1n this computation the Rue li flows were estimated by dl ainap e area reht ionship and correlation V ith recorded flows at Thomasville and with records on the Roaring Fork Hi ver Ilt Glen 000 Springs Streamflow records also are available for the Fryingpan River at Norrie and on the North Fork of the Fryingpan near Norrie from 1947 to the present time Norrie Colo is sit uated about 10 miles of upstrea m from the Ruedi Dam site and commands a drainage area 131 square miles Riverflows at Ruedi were estimated by correlation with Norrie records for the period 1945 to 1957 Combining the estimates for the overall period 19ll to 1957 annual und pletstream flows at Rucdi averaged 195 900 acre feet ranging from a low of 86 700 acre feet in 1934 to a high of 341 200 acre feet in1957 Depletion Except for negligible jr igation use o water Ol the western slope for wInch data are not avallable the major depletIOns to the Frying pan River above Ruedi will result from the existing Busk Ivunhoe di ersions to the eastern slope and from the poten tial Fryingpan Arkansas project diverSIOns Combmed these d verslOns are expected to average 74 100 acre feet annually for the 1911 57 period of study 30 3721 RUEMM AND RESERYOIR COLO Of this amcJunt 94 7 percent or 70 200 acre feet would be di er erl cr drninarre above Ruedi from the FrYin DeductIng the Hi Dam site Ruedi alllflows at the fl ion str t le om deplet undeplefed 2 70 ere f et leayes a dep1cte resel roir inflow tLt Rnedi as ragiHg 1 l lWllUa1Jy and UJgjng from H3l20U acre feet in a dry year IIke In 3J et year like IV57 to 234 DOO acre feet in tt rlmn an indudl i wa ter 1 equh Tones Ine COllslllting The finD of Call113l Un 3engine r of Den Oil Yater Yer JutS made an invest iga tion and Requirements eport for Oil Shale 1960 75 for the Shte of Colorado which is repro duced in full us ppendix D of t his report The report discIooes that diYer joJl requirC Illents for lmUlicpn ana indllstrial purposes in western Colorado and Utah a re expected to be 25 OOO aere feet un nurdly by 1975 Of t his tobtl 159 000 ere feet of wter would be consumed mul n UOO acre foot would return to the streams It is estimated fur t her t hat 80 pe rcent of the total municipal and industl ial 1ter lli ersion requirenwnts would occur in an aJe along the ColoJado Ri er het TfoOn Rifle and De Hqlle Colo The 1075 consl1mptiye llSe reqnirement in t his are t woulll be 80 percent of 15 lUOO acre feet or 127 200 a l e Ieet which could be stIpple nlented or partly flllJill d by storage l elpltses from Rl1edi Re eloil A port ion of t1H requirement couhfbe met hy surplus Haws at points of I in the Colorado Ri vel t d ill to be 1 0 ascertain the port ion of the fota J I deri emeJlts qllil 197G from flows in the Colorado Ri 1 a daily operation study for l Colol ado Ui el system l1til J 34 was In Lde for the C the critical year 1 his ana lysis in tl Canlt o assuming fnt ure h pleted condit Ihll ion dicated that the eonsUJuptiye llSe reqllirement of 127 tO acre feet lir c re a l onld be met by 88 1200 t f Colorado River flows and fee e f 39 000 ul l e feet re leasctl from Rlledi Resen oir Tlw watfol yield of Ruedi Reservoir will he greater than the re re1cilses in 1075 It was necessary there OflO ilCl e feet of quired e foI Jones into nts by Cameron to project the 1075 luireme re the future to deterlllinf approximately when the full yield of the reselToiI Oil hI be l f llliI ed The Cllrrent llati nal Po ulation gl o th trend of ahout 1 percent per decade was apphed to t 1e 1975 reqUIre ments Commel ci d oil shale tleyeJopment wit h accompanying urban iza tion might expand at a much faster rate In any ease the projected est irn lte show tha t nbout 50 years after the scheduled of Ruedi Dam and Hesc n oir or by nlction COI1st thE year 1014 the C011 t1l1lpti e use requirement in the Rifle De Beque woul l read 300 c f s 01 217 2UO nere feet are Afte r USf of a il able ri edfows in a critica l yen I like 10 34 70 000 llcre feet of the re qUIrement in year 2014 would neerl to be fU111islH d from Ruedi This is a ma ximmn yiel l of the reselToir in a year such Reseryoir Exhibit 4 gl l1 phically shows the e t imute d requirements for as lU H lnunicip l 1n l in lustrial watel M uniciprtf l l3nunts I I I RUEDI 3722 RESEllVOIR D A1 tI i DA 31 corp EXHIBIT 4 MUNICIPAL AND INDUSTRIAL WATER REQUIREMENTS FEET ACRE o ITHOtlSAHOsl o 320 1 e O f I 280 0 0 0 240 200 160 120 80 0 Report of July 1959 by lmeron C 6 Jones Water ReQuirements for Oil Shale 1M aou BUI of ReclQmolion lnloles es v 1990 YE R 2000 IS7lj 2020 S 0 1960 t 1960 1975 2010 202Q 32 3723 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO Operation study de for the monthly operat jon study of Ruedi ReEeIToir was ma This period reflects ust 1929 i hrough T u y 1948 period Au critical period of water ply und a complete c cle of operation A IV year a Sllj n full at both the beginning and the the l servoir would ha ve end of the period as well as at some points in the interim The object jye of the study was to determine the manner and ex tent to which Rue li Reservoir would meet the 2014 requirements wa ter expected to result frOTIl com for municipal and industria merei l oi shnle development The operation study indicates Umt in S the tot tl reservoir w ter yield would be needed ye l critic to meet those reqllirelnents l servoir would provide full replacement require n addition the ments as a substitute for Aspen Resen oir for the Fryingpan Arkansas project and the futl re TWill LnkB6 Reservoir C l Co diversions The operation study msofa r as rights below Ruedi are concerned maintained the minimum fish flows in the Fryingpa n Ri er of 39 and 110 c f s May through October c f s November through April The Fryingpan reconunended by the Fish and Wildlife Service Arkansas project operating principles proride that these flows be ma intained immediately below the confluence of Rocky Fork and V Rue i Dum oolo hence the River a few hundred feet vingpan Fr the estimuted flows of Rocky Fork during the months of May June and July were considered lS being available to contribute to fish tlow req u i remen ts nces including Operat ion study criterin prmride for ot her nlowa bypass of rooen oir inflow during the irrig ltion season of about 8 c f s for decreed irrigation rights between the Ruedi Dam site and River for decreed irrigat ion ights at the month of the Fryin rpnn Cameo of 1 800 c f s during the irrigation season and for a dec ed power right at Cameo of 8UO e f s during the non irrigation season Only consumptiye use requirements of municipal and industrial water were conSIdered because a ddit 1ionu flows would be anlilable in the Colorado River for di ersion requirements The retUl11 flow from municipal and industrial use would enter the river above the point of major existing Use In the pcesent study river es and control looses for municipal and maustrIaI releases from Ruedl Resen OIl were dlsre garded lore detailed studies will consider these nuttlers A detailed study to determine the municipal and industrial supple mental water requirements for all years was not made This would ULve required a daily operation study of the entire Colorado River system above Cameo However snch a detailed dailv study was made for the yeaTS 1934 and 1944 These daily stndies ere based on as sumptions of a 300 second foot municipal and indust rial consumptive use requirement veal 014 and thnt all existing decrees including Denver s Blue River syst em were ill full ope ration The study also asslIDled that the potentml Pm shall unit Eagle Divide unit West Divide unit Rnd Silt project were in operat ion The analysis showed the municipal and illclustrinl wnter require ment from Ruedi Reservoir to be 70 000 acre feet in 1934 and 41 500 as 3724 RUEDI DAM AND 33 COLO RESERVOIR feet in 1944 To estimate the requirements from Ruedi for 34 and 1944 were plotted 19 other years the results obtained for River at Ruedi Ex the flow of the Fryingpan undepleted against hibit 5 shows the reationship from which the annual demand for municip and industrial water from Ruedi Reservoir was obtained tl acre EXHIBIT 5 260 MUNICIPAL AND INDUSTRIAL WATER DEMAND FROM RUEDI RESERVOIR 240 VS UN DEPLETED FLOW AT RUEDI 0 1975 AND 2014 220 0 0 I 200 co 0 u Z 0 ISO 0 l f 160 0 0 944 WATcR SUPPLY I Z L 0 140 120 100 0 9 4 WATcR SUPPLY 80 o 40 W M I AND I WATER 60 DEMAND 00 IN 1 000 ACRE 100 FEET 120 37 S 34 RUED DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO J uly 1048 A sulllmary of the reservoir opemtion st ndy Aug ID2D in terms of ave rage annual quantItIes of water In acre feet follows for t he H veal period Although t he u yerage nnnunJ municipal and indllst ial wate r e lease frolll Ruedi Resen oil is 34 000 acre feet eXllmlllation of 1Il di idnal yenrs ClIIay through April in the stutly discloses that in 1934 and 1940 the rcql1ll ed 1 e II S of low strealll flows suc h as 1031 j eleases Ould he 66 000 70 000 and 6l 000 acre feet respectil ely all tin sed upon 2014 requirements Ruedi ReSel Hlir therefore would insubstn t l water supplies from storage in tllO e years of low pro ide stl flows nll e lan un releases to AveriLge rep l Cl t Ical oid fl lUldepC lldal le yields esent as pills and additional winter water lot be ilyailaLle in they wolthl vea I S Vit h l espect releases for avoidance of spills it was assumed t hat a forecast of inflow and required releases wonld he made for the ensuing spring and summer mOllt hs In case w y of t he fnl f ca ts indicated tJlat spIlls would occur if onlr reIcnses for mandatory bypasse and Illnniciplll and industrial watei reqllil e me nts were made then addit ional releases Vould be mncle in such n manne r as to make t he totnl reseryoir outflow quite uniform and to enhance the operation for flood oontrul Such relea s to lyoid spills if uny mig ht enhance fish floR s alld be benencial to power ation genel and possibly for downstreflTH irrigat ion use to 1 of eaeh rear by April At raOe annlla Il Undepletell flow Less rlelllptions acre V FLO at RuetiL k hanboe BlI L diversilJn 4 400 57 900 n Fryingpan Arkallsas diversiolls e f 800 reser oir Net 62 300 100 200 r e feet 171 500 h water supply 108 400 h OUTFLOW Downstream rights and Fish flows Illeal ref Frying pan Arkansas replacemenL n 20 000 54 100 n UirPDlPnL Le s Rocky Fork inflows Less creditable outflow fM downst ream rights and 8 100 n lllenL phlct 17 o r n 5 OO n Less natural streamflow shortages Nt t fish relpases n n for municipal nnd imlustrial water relea ie AdditioIlal Rpleases to avoid iJlills Total n n win ter relenses endable Undel I re roir reser outflow Available for dowDstream munIcipal n 23 300 34 600 22 600 7 900 108 400 n and IndustrIal use AJthoug h the oJration stu fly shows required for lllUTIlClpal and llldnst ru11 hat there water durmg cl be wou no releases wmter mont hs releases would be made in these mOllth in some years in addition Studies show that to the mnndatory releases explained previously reservoir content could be drn Cll down to 07 000 ficre feet by March Bl ill any earnnd that a ll numda tory and municipnl and industrial water release requirements could still be Inet during the ensuing year even some I I 20 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 STORAGE u i t VI 5 VI t J 10 0 5 10 15 20 1929 OUTFLOW UJ UJ U 0 UJ t 0 VI 0 Z t J 0 VI 0 1930 193 I 1932 A 1933 934 1935 1936 1937 1938 I 1 I I r r 1939 1941 RUEDI STORAGE 1940 AND 1944 OUTFLOW 1943 RESERVOIR 1942 r 40 30 20 0 o 1945 I 1946 1947 Municipal regulated supply and industrial 1948 replacement water releases Additional Releases far vested rights and and fish by passes EXPLANATION J f 1 o z o u u a u UJ 100l STORAGE 90 80 70 60 50 20 f UJ 0 u U s lJ z lJ o 1 f 1959 OUTFLOW 15 10 5 o August N z 0 o o N t 70 60 50 40 w n W W 1932 1933 1934 I l 1935 o w t a I 1931 o 1930 I 1929 W o t w I t I J o w n a w E t z z 0 Z I W t I J IL 0 30 0 10 20 I a W u IL 0 V 0 z V t V 9 J IL J E t Z 0 10 20 30 40 fA I 1937 BUSK IVANHOE DIVERSIONS 1936 I I I l J r DEPLETED INFLOW TO RUEDI RYINGPAN ARKANSAS DIVERSIONS ROJEOT RESERVOIR I l DIVISION FRYINGPAN f OF RIVER RUEDI WATER AT 1947 1948 I 1I UJ 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 10 20 30 6 19t19 2 0 Z I J I g 1I z J I 0 1I 1I 0 U UJ UJ l EXHIBIT 0 UJ 0 I 1I I 1I Ul z 0 z z 2 UJ UJ 0 0 ll l UJ 0 I 0 UJ I 0 40 AUQust c Z u 0 0 0 N 3728 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR 35 COLO in the critical year oT ateI supply 4 In years oT more than ample 19 when t he mandatorv and lll11llicipn 1 and industrial water releases would not result in l reseI yoir tlrn Hlmnl to 67 000 acre feet some Hldit ional winter releases would be made in a manner to achieye uni form total outflow Such winter releases might ide some down pro stream benefits but no enlluation has been mnde The cle leted reservoir inflow n H 109 200 acre feet u nnually TinlT ral would be increased to 125 700 acre feet or 15 percent had the opera tiOIl stndy coyered the long term periocl 1911 to 1957 Jlowever the results of the monthly analysis for the critic years lying within the 11 shorter August 19 9 Tu y 1948 period of study wou not change The entire water yield of Ruedi Reservoir oT 70 000 acre feet would be demanded in a yeaT such as 1934 to meet 2014 municipal and indus trial water requirements Exhibit G y shows monthly Fry graphic ingpall River depletions and in1 ow to Ruedi Reseno r Exhibit 7 shows monthly reser oil outflow und reservoir content lUXICIPAL AND INDU8THIA L WATER tion rodu Int lPresent Ideyopeed of icipal and industrial water for along the Colorado River nre generally adequntp to supply present needs Any large fut ure in dustrial expallsion or growth of population centers llOW ever will re quire additional outer supplies pl m ided ipulIy by stora e prjJ Production oT oil lnd related byproduets Trom the ast 011 shale deposits in the area is undoubtedly the lar gest potential il lClllstriu1 de velopment that is likely to OCCllr in the m lU future Sonll of the largest and richest oil shale deposits ill the world are located along sources 111l1J western Coloruda towns and communities the Colorado River near the towns oT Rifle Grand Valle and De Beql1e Requirements for addit ional municipal and industrial rater as esti mated in this report l 1e lmsell on a logi al a nd orderly ldevopment of all oil shale indust ry Eyen partial development of the oil shale potent ialities would require significant quantitIes of rater for indus trial processing and for related service indust ries and residential The firm of Cltllleron areas Tones Inc engineers consultants was l et uined by the State of Colorado to make a lter study of w require ments of the potenti oil shf le indust ry and relnted developments tl The study was sUllllllnrizeu in n report dated J lily HILl fL copy of which is appended to this report This diseussion summarizes data J ones report and otlier data obtained presented in the Cameron Trom studies prepared by agencies oT the State of Colorado The general area ulso contains a weulth of other resources that coul l materially contribute to the growt h of populntion cent ers and inerense demands for municipal and industrial water These resonrce i inell1de mineral deposits timber rese rves gas and petroleum reserves agricultural potentialities and recreational possibilities No attempt is made in this report t o eVllhwte the additional requirement s for municipal and indu t rifll water t hnt eould result fl OHl future f1evel opment of industry based on these resources l u1 d Nei T is P H la rpleum t e1 pa 11 of oi18halc devdoJYlnent TOoil in the United St ates and thI ollghont the world lIy expected to inerease for 011 indefinite period in the future production in the United States has increased but demand steadily 36 372 3 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO has not kept pace with demand during the past decade It is predicted Jones report that domestic production of petroleum in the Cameron then will will continue to increase until the period 1965 to 1970 and reason for the that the in It is stated decline adual report begin a this declme will not necessarily be that the industry carulOt locate new cost of oil from alternative sources of petroleum but rather that the cost of locating and sources such as oil shale will be less than the new sources from producing petroleum between demand and petroleum production in The wIdening gap with imports from foreign sources the United States has been filled Jones Cameron in the stated repOli that this practice can It is 1965 without the nation becoming overly followed be through probably that t he 1960 65 period dependent upon oversea oil It was concluded time for initial commercial development of the oil would be a logical shale industry to proceed in Development of the oil shale industry is expected II following four distinct phases phase I experimental phase IV III secondary phase primary expansion protot J pej phase the expanSIOn The experime ntal phase started about 15 years ago and is now in t his period methods have been develupeu for its final stages Durlll each step in the production of shale fuels The prototype phase wonld involve the first commercial develop III ment of an oil shale industry which would probably be located The objective of the prototype the Grand Valley De Bcqne area of oil bnt to firmly phase would not be to produce large quantities fuels before making shale of and eCDnomics blish t he technology est the large capital ill estments re luired for shnle oil to contribute significantly to overall oil supply Existing refineries oil transporta tion facilities and local labor would probably be utilized insofar possible during this phase After operation of the prototvpe development for a sufficient period to demonstrate the soundness of initially adopted mining and retort it is antici ing met hods or to make improvements in t he methods fa be expanded would oil shale the Refining that industry pated additional area the local be establislwd in pipeline cilities would facilities for transporting oil would be constructed and means of be dm eloped processing and utilizing the shale oil by products would the W65 1970 The primary expansion would probably occur during Rifle between River period and would be located along the Colorado arMS Roan Creek and in the Parachute and De and Beque of the oil shale industry following the primary ex The Owth gl Tones report it pansion period would be rapid In the Cameron shale oil production would rench 1 250 000 197 was estimated that by barrels pe r day nnd thnt a locnl popuh1tion increase of 340 000 would be supported by he oil shale development und related industries About SO percent of the shnle oil production would be from the area De Beqlle and in along the Colorado Ri er between the Rifle and The remaining 20 t he adjacent Parachute and Roan Creek arens the Piceance Creek area t o percent of the prorluctioIl would he fromAmmonia and sulfur would t he nort h nnd from northeastern Utah the principal byproducts probably he as 373a RUEDI DAM AND 37 COLO RESERVOIR The estimated timing ami rate of de elop eI1 t of the shale in Tones report was bns d on normal as shown in the Cameron economic a1 d political condit ions without the stimulatIOn of a na tional emergeney Should a nat ional emergency occnt the I llte of oil shale develo lllent would undonbtedly be accelerated No quantitative estimates of oil shale development bey ond 1975 were made in the Cameron Jones report The report IndIcated howt r that there win be an ever inereasing demand for oil and that it is reasonable to assume that shale oil production will con tinue to increase beyoncllfJ7tl It was estimated that oil shale reserves are adequate to JIla intain shale oil production at it rate of nearly 6 million barrels per day for a minimum period of 40 years dustry lVa to l fjnil ement fO oil f ha1e dc velopme nt Little water would be adun y ollsumed in oil shale mlJllJlg and ret orting operations but substnntitd amounts of water would be nec Yater essary for refining sl l ice indust ries and reside ntial Hreas requirements would be 3mnJI during the init ia I development period but would increa se rapidly ith expansion of t he indust ry amI as soeiate l community growth In the Cameron Tones report water requln cm mts esti wer 6 and ending mated for slIccessi e i year periods begillniIIg with in 107 The est imates shown in the report are summarized in the following tauulation by type of USe Valu requLrements I jj l j Shah nil lroductlon and SUPlJl re 01 50 IUlmen lllJ 11 7 r h d water SUI pl 12i fJQO 114 000 o o 10 000 000 15 000 5 000 1J5 000 4fJ tllJ 2 252 000 159 000 250 000 1 Clulrp d Consumpllve use RC rl ctfyear 12 000 11 000 o nieip and lnrlnstrbl l mlJ rlO lOO 5O 0 h COllsumpliw use Munidpal rll w populallon upply requlrt d C OIlSIlUlVttve Use Supply I refining tuirc C ollsurnpUlc ust ShlJ l rclB t lllntlllstry f uppl requlr tl Total o cn c1 pnbrltr n 5 If 7511 OO Jtl 40 001 1 It has been consCITati water ely estimated that municipal and indust rial require ments beyond the periods cO erell in the Came ron report wonld increase at the same 1 ate as t he national popula Jones tion trend or 15 percent per decade the following tabulation t Year WIZ These estimates Suppb la r 9 rp Juired CletjYC lIr 2 H mHHH ii i ii nre OJ 13 l 3 OO 3S i XI 430 0 l lJOCI shown in Consumptive use acre reetjyerLT 183 000 210 000 24 O J m 500 178 000 3 731 38 RUEDl DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO tltcr for oil shale de elopment and industrial of t1mt abollt 80 and prior equent to HliO wou percent sub be for the area I g t he Colorudo Ri er and its t l ihutaries beh een nh Rifle and De Bcqlle The remaining 20 percent of the water require In mts alter 1971 would be required for northeastern Utidi aurl the Piceance Creek area As tJJe exnct Joe flt ion of the potential inL111st rjal plants and lllHllici s n at the present time di ersioll points and lXl lities cannot be fOl e locations for water distribution H stellls ean only be generally deter mined It is likely th tt pumping will he reqllired to pl oride wnter seryice to at least plllt of l nullicip d awl illllllst l ial al ea The amount of water treatment l eqUlren WIll urJ seasonally wIth the type of water use and the point on the Colorado l i cl Qr its tributaries from which t he ater is obtailH l All of the municipal to 1970 Sources of JH ullicif1ul and tn Z 8tJ lal water of municipal amI indust rial waler illn st ig ltcd for this inc lude Dilly thuse SOUrt p s that could be utilized to supply rleJllallds elllE to oil shale rle elol mcut in areas immediately adjacent No etl ol t has llcen nlade to explore wnter tu the Coloru lo H i er f the potential oil shale den sources for that pOl tion located lIl el t lo iH the Piceance Creek area lad ill 1l0ltllCllStCl H Utall Iuch t of thc t ime l equircJllents for Jllll11icipal and illdll t l ial wate r could Le from flows of tlle Colomdo Ri e that are surplus JJjed up S ocellI to existing uses in the general a rca These snrplus tI during the major snowmelt period principally the 1lI011t lIs of 1 Iay and Julle jutel lI ollt hs Yl en t wle i J U It JlJHJid for irrigation Hil during the l For the late summer and earlr fall months when tIle entire water flow of the l irer is often re l1liJ ed for existing uses it would be ne e either to acquire Yt1tei HOW llsed 11l dcr dired sar tin ater rights or tu nl tain water from It is helien d t hat J e e1 tomgc l esm oirs voil alisfaetorv alld least costly l e would be the lJj st stor lV of atr l during such ti llles To l o iding the munieipal and indllst l i tl retire existing yaler rights for this purpo e would reduce a well a sound coltU il Jtltol estalllished farming industry which is alrcad to t he area e OIlOIllV J 11 ndc1itioIl to the Rnedi HescrHiil site then are lHlIll lrOIlS other l ue de eloped to assist ill supply oul locat ions at which reservoirs ing llluniciL1al and ind lst l ial watcl bny of these nlteJ llati e sites de not merIt serious consideration for dl yelopment hoe er be lIlse of ob iollS pllysieal nne ecoHOlllic limitations when eompnr d with tile yaiJilh e tmli s yel e lIath by morc aUrnctj e sites C01l1parati the State of Colorado of tile ile that lPlle lld most wt tllY of c1e H in ldie st lopmellt fwm cursory preliminary appmistlb The atcr supply allalyses cludcel cost stim ttes and Tile altenlidil f sites WE re e dlHlted solely Oil tlH hasis of 1I1llnic ipal HlHl JpIJil g i11 itlt no other p iLle multiple domestic W lter tions fUIl being COll ncsult of tllc ira sidercd the tllies Wel f llse l ill clete l lllinill de rial bilit y of utilizing indust t Heser Hnd he lluetli usesl Inunieipnl flY ve ir storage atel not required for l of tl lllSIllOllllt lin tcel clIt Cpl di ersio ls J The stllrlil s indi hy the Fryingpan Al ki1llsas pl p r is the cated t ll lt Placita Resen oir site on thc Cryst dojec TIi cheapest l es Soul report 4 3732 RUEDI DA1I AND RESERVOIR 39 COLO site A total capacity of 85 000 acre feet would be re alternali quired at the Placitn site to pl odde il municipal and industrlfll water supply equivaleut to the supply that would be available from Ruedi Reservoir Value of municipal and indu t ial water The cost of the cheapest single pnrpose alternative storage reser voir has been t aken ns t he value of Ruedi Resen oir for municipal find industrial water The construction cost of an 85 000 acre foot reser voir at the Plncita site is estimuted at 11 100 000 Using 3J years as the of 2 5 percent in for construction un interest rate and period terest during construction is estimntetl at about 485 OO making the i OOO 58 total initial inyestment in the single purpose nlternati e 1l Annual operation e and replacement costs for Placita maintenan Resel oir are estimated at 7 000 Based on an interest rate of 2 5 perce nt annual equivalent costs of Plucita Reservoir are shown in the following tabulation for 50 and lOO year periods of analysis which constitl1tes n measnre of the benefits attributable to Rlle cli l esen oil for municipal and industrial water ussociated with oil shale development 50 Amortired Initial lnvestrnent Annual oper l tiOil 9 Il Ollll and Quivall nt n n ffiainlen l ost ears 100 years 7 000 31 000 3 7 000 415 000 323 000 iOS OIJO ASSOCIATED FUXCTIONS Flood control If The water slIpply for Rnedi is ived essent ially from de Reservoi snowmelt during t he l tte spring and early sllmme r months Annual st orage of this rUlloff will be complementary to the objectiye of flood control in river reaches downstream from Ruedi Dam As a part of the ollnuissllllce for this report the Corps of Engineers District re in Los AnO ele s Calif reviewed the flood control as peets of Hlledi Dam and Reservoir Appendix A of this report conlnins the Corps appraisal of this subject l Iajor SllO l melt f10ws in the Frying pan Hirer and in t11e drainage area of tJw Colorado Ri er aho e Grand VaJley indicate that the peak discharge at the Huedi Dam site might he 89 percent of it cun temporary peak 011 the Fryingpan l i el at its 1I1Ou1 h about 48 pp l t ent of t he corresponding peak in t he Roaring Fork Hiver at le cOI Glenwood Springs and some 15 to IS percent of the sponding peak 011 the Colorado River between Glenwood Springs and the Full contIuence with t he GlUlIlison River at Grnn l funct lOn Colo 0111 1 01 of snowmelt discharges in Ruedi H eservoir would eliminate all potential tlood d unages on the Fryingptlll H iver below the lam and wuuld reduce substantially t he flood damage on t he Roarilll Furk of Red u tion ldalgesH Ri er h low the ll 1oltth of the Fryingpan in Le relatively small t he Colorado River however woul The value of nIl property in t he overflow areas uetweell Ruedi D llll and Grand Junction on t he Colorado Ri er is beliered to be 3733 40 RUED DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO Litt e in 1 million and may reach 3 million to 5 miUion formation is readily available to forecast future values Vl ith future commercial oil shale development howe er property values in these reaches should increase greatly The Corps of Engineers conducted a flood damage survey after the 1957 flood which reached 18 700 cubic feet pel second at the Glen The total da mages wood Springs gage on the Roaring Fork River lches re of the Fryingpa n and re isulngt from this flood along the Roaring Fork Rivers below Ruelli Dam were estimated at 35 000 Vith present techniques and ability to forecast snowmelt inflow it will be possible to achie e pbmned e acuation of the full active storage capacity of Ruedi Resern ir in about 30 days If the reser voir is operated carefuJly for flood control by eva cuation of storage prior to forecasted he HJ inflow ahnost complete control of snowmelt floods in the resen oir could be attained The Corps of Enginee s has estimated t hat the total a verage annual future da n1flges frOlll uncontrollecl tloo l in n ffected river reaches hp t wp en Ruedi Dn m and the Fryingpan and Grand Jullction on the Colorado would UnOID t to at least 16 000 Operation of Ruedi Dam and fm control of snowmelt floods will be compleme nt ary Oir Reser t o its operl1t ion for municipa l H Bel indust rial water demands and 1 000 of would prevent ft olll ii 8 OOO to verage annual flood dam For t he purpose of this re port a midpoint figure of 11 500 ages is nsed as a measure of a nnual flood control benefits at least Fi h alld wildlife The efreds of operation of Ruedi Dam a nd Reservoir on fish anll wj dlife were teveaJdufl b y reconnaissa nce by the Buren 1l of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife of the U S Fish a nd Wildlife Service Al ion of the Colorado Department buquerque N I ex with the The Bureau s memorandum report dated August of Game and Fish 26 19 0 is reproduced as appendix B of t his report The evaluation of the Fish and Yildlife Service indicates that the Fryingpan River provides one of the best aud most heayily fished trout st reams in Colorado man Fisherme n enjoy mall days each nd tributaries of the year angling on t he 7 miles of main sirea m a Fryingpan River ami three small la kes nll within the Ruedi Reser voir site The I i er downstrealn front the damsite also is fished cooRemt heavily About 7 miles of the Fryingpan Ri er and tributaries and three A cording to a sur small lakes will be inundated b the resen oir the of Fish Colorado Gamc and the trout popu trtment Dep vey by lation in this reach is equal to or exceeds ansimila r stream section in the St a te The river within ihe reservoir e also contains spawn sit used by trout of t he Ronring Fork River as pr bl o bn y groum inl Annua l fishing use of Ruedi Reser voil how well as t he FryingpaJl ever is estimated at 25 fishermen per acre or a total of 15 000 fisher man da vs The operation of Ruedi Resenoir as planned will reduce and lll from the dam The more uniform stabilize the flows downst re a Am s will improye fish hahitat and provide better fishing conditions Good hahitttt and heayy fish in early mont hs of the fishing season exists on this reach hence increased use is estimated at nlrendy ing about 5 percent 3734 RUEDI DAM AND RESERYOIR COLO 41 In sununary Ruedi Dam and Reservoir will destroy a beautiful heavily used trout fishery with an u erage annual value with an anHual value of 60 000 j create a fair sized reserVOIr fisheI of 225 000 flJ1d increase downstream annual fishing values from 135 000 to 142 000 or a gain of 7 000 Annual without the project values total 195 000 a nd with the project values j 167 000 resulting in enhancement of 172 000 These values have been estimated to high qualit y a 50 year period The survey concludes that elfects of Ruedi Dam and Reservoir on big and Upltlnd game will be b11ificant vut some habitat losses insi for waterfowl and aquatic fur animals would occur through inunda tion of the t hree small lakes in the resen oil area Therefore fut ure of include a sn sholllcl consicleratioll ilnestigatioHs impol1ndTiJj nt on Huedi und or Bagley Creeks for fish and wildlife conservation or of wl1terfowl impl O ements around Missouri Heights Heservoir 18 miles northwest of the project area represent Recreation The recreational aspects of Ruedi Dam and Resen oir have heen evaluated by sance by the National Park Service Omaha reconnai Nebr A memorandum re port dated August 14 lUt O fr01u that is reproduced as appendix C of agenc report thi The National Park Sen ice indicates that considerable recreation acti ity can be expected at the reservoir if operation is such as to maintain an adequate water surface and rather stable elevation during snmmer months Public use lylike will include picnicking boating fislling hiking and camping There may RIso be a demand for sea sona cabin sites which might be fulfilled if suitable laads not re quired for reservoir operat ion Ol public use were avtlih ble It is estimated that 55 000 will be required for pro ision of minimmn basie facilities which can be Wetl yie as a Federal responsihility De elopment would include a public use area along the north shore of the resen oir on a natural ridge east of Bagley Creek and a fish ing camp nt n suitable location along 1 bay OIl the north shore If any additional land is required for reLTention as may be indicated 5500 esti by future studies the costs would be additional to the 11latc As the potential recreation develupment would be on the north shore of he reservoir the relocation of State Highway No 104 along the north side would provide access to those facilities Vhile details of the clam and reservoir const ruction have not been definitely deter mined it is probable that this highway would tmverse the reservoir on the north side Est imated annual costs of the recreat ional facilit ies would be 10 500 consist in of 7 500 for administ ration operat ion and main 3 000 for replacement of ilities based upon nIllor tenance and fuC 0 131 25 The U S Forest Ser ice has indicnted in tization years accordance wit h existing arrangements that it wonld administ er the recreational facilities since Ruedi Reservoir is within t he boundaries of the White River National Forest In evaluating the potential public use of Ruedi Rese rvoir t he Na tiOlll 1 Park Service indicates that visitation will depend largely upon access roads fHlequate recreation facilities and the quality of fishing If these requirements are met satisfactorily annual yisitor r 351 4 60 423135 RUEDI I AND DA RESERVOIR COLO 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 annual monetary benefits are prelimina ry al lLl should The following recommendations have be considered in that light been su gested by the National Park Service to guide future plan ning The Bureau of Reclamation cOllcurs in these objectives 1 The takeline should be established around the J esen oir and at sufficient distance above maximum high water level to allow public Recreation land suitable for l ublic use access to the entir e shoreline sh uld be acquired at the same t ime land is being acquired for reser day attenda nce VOIr purposes If State Highway 104 should be relocated along the north shore l ea of tJH reservoir It would provide goou uccess to the proposed l Pl tion a reas and to ranches and communities upstream 3 Scenic and re reation values should be considered during plan Iling for t he location of roads borrow areas and ot her construction acti ities such as clearing and grading 4 Since the reservoir site is within the boundary of the White River National Forest t j 1e elopmeIJL for recreation should be dis Forest Service dm ing early stages of planning cussed with the U 5 The National Park Service should be advised concerning plan ning oBstruct ioll schedllles and nIlY c hanges in mr thods of rE servoir operation which might necessit ate furt her investigat ions and studie in connection with r ecl eation planning and the salvage of historic and archeological fent l1res 2 InRIGATION AJ TERNATlVES General There a re no significunt areas of land in the immediate vicinity of Rl1edi Reservoir that are suitaLle for irrigation uevelopment Ruedi Reservoir storage water and natural flows of Fryingpan Creek how ever could be utilized downstream for irrigation of arable lands along and adjacent to the Roaring Fork and Colorado Rivers as shown on These m eas inelude lands described bv the Bureau of exhibit 2 units of Reclamation as the Cattle Creek lIount Sopris and 81 one uest The in the Cliffs Divide projeet in a report dated February 1V54 vestigations of the Cliffs Divide project were of a reconnaissance nature t o provide nn inventory of potential irrigation developments in the Uppel Colorado River Basin and determine those which war rante further detailed stndy to establish their engineering and eco nomic feasibility It would be physically p03sible to provide irrigation service to the bulk of the lands of t B t e Creek Mount Sopris and Bluestone Cat areas from the Rlledi Reservoir A report summarizing invest igat iOlls made by the Colorado River Yater Conservat ion Dist rict for serving the Cattle Creek and Mount Sopris lands from Ruedi Reservoir is ap pended to t his report Howe er the Bureau of ReclaJllation has not yet Blade sufficient invest igations to rceommend project plans or estau Jish the eeonomic desirability of development 3736 RUEDI DAM AKD RESERVOIR COLO 43 Gattle Greek area The arable lands of the Cattle Creek area are located principally on high mesas adjacent to the alleys of Cattle Creek and the Roaring Fork River The presently irrigated lands are devoted to the produc tion of hay pasture and other livestock feed crops Cattle Creek a tributary of the Roaring Fork Hinr that drains the western end of Red Table 1I10nntain is the priucipal source of water presently used for the irrigation of about 5 500 acres of land Eiliht small resenoirs with a combined capacity of about 4 000 acre feet have been developed by the local irrigators and 1 uitch has been con structed to import irrigation water from Cottonwood Creek a tribu tary of the Colorado River above t he mout h of the Hoaring Fork Ri er Even with the importations and the tlsuilable storage l eglat i n water shortages are estul1nted to average over 30 percent of the ldeal re quirements of the irl igateillands There are also sizable aCl nges of arahle lands within the area that are undeveloped at the present time because of an inadeqnate water supply The plan for irrigation development of lands in the Cattle Creek area as presented in the Cliffs Divide project recollnaissance report in oh ed importation of additional water from 15 small tributaries of Fryingplln Creek and from Cottonwood ami East Brush Creeks both of which are tributaries of the Colorado River A small quautity of Cattle Creek water non surpl11s to existing water l ig lts cOllld lltl e The Hew water sllpply would have provided fnll also been utilized irrigation s n ice to 13 740 acres of undeveloped lands and supple mellbll irrigation service to the i GOO acres of presently irrigated lands Vith an allowance of r percent for nonprodudive land uses the tutallJl uullctive area was estimated at 18 090 acres Construction features of t he plan included a l3 700 acre foot reser voir It 42 mile conveyance canal two feeder canals with combined length of about G miles aud l6 mile distribution canal The plan also included enlargement of three existing canals and a re servoir Vater operation studies were based on nn annual diversion require It was estimated that ment of 3 acre feet per acre of productive land an llverage of 40 400 acre feet of additional water would have been made anlilable annually for irrigation use and the average shortage of irrigation water would have been 7 percent of tJ1e diversion re quirement It was anticipated that the irrignble lands of the area would con tinue t o be devoted principally to the production of livestock feeds Estimfltes of payment capacity and irrigation benefits would neces sarily be hased on an economy of this type To serve the Cattle Creek a rea with irrigation water from Rnedi Resel oir it would be neCessary to construct about 43 miles of main conduit and service cnnals together with adequate laterul and drain It lfmdd not he Jlecess y to COJlst rllct any new reselToirs lz tt7e systems n d the enlargement of existing reservoirs y be found unnecessary mn Extensi e fierd SlH eys and adequate plan formulation studies will he renllired to cOJ11pletp ly outline the extent of t he construction fea tures that would he needed Vithout a large amount of dead storage cnpl1cit in Rnedi Reser r r ater directly from Rlledi oir it Illigllt be infeasible to delin Resen oil to some of the higher lands previollsly considered for direct 44 r13 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO irri ation service It is possible that additional waur could be pro vid d for such lands fronl Cattle Creek through exchange with lower lands or by development of other water sources M Dunt Sopm area Several hirly large blocks of arable lands are located near Mount Sopris between the Roarin Fork and Crystal Rivers above the con flue nee of the two streaJns Iost of the iow er lands in this area are irrigated from existing gravity ditches diverting from the t wo main These lands hnTe an adequate water supply at present streams An estimated 7 200 llcres of aruble lands are situated above the An undeter service areas of ditches from the t wo lnain streams mined portion of these higher la nds now receives irrigation water from Snowmass and Sopris Creeks tributaries of the H uring Fork Some Ri er and Prince Creek fi tributary of th c rystnl R er of the lands are presently undeyeloped for IrrigatIOn purposes and it is believed that at least part of t he preseutly Irrigated hnds are in need of additiOllO 1 wat l Nelll ly all of the irrigateci lands are devoted to the production of ha y and pasture At the time the Clilfs Di ide investigation was begun about 2 700 t res of lands were ilTigated from SIlUWlJ1aSti Sopl is ulHl Prince J able lands in the same Creeks nnd an additional 4 500 acres of l area were UlHleveJoped Inrestigations were unilertaken of t plan to more completely and efficiently ntilize flows of the three streams t o J Ti 1F 11 supplement the wnter supply of t he irrignJpd laIl 1s llnd to l Before tlm investig full water supply for the undeveloped lands however two prin1 te tiOIlS em completed groups hega n construc tion of works which corresponded closely With most of the major features contemplated under the pln n being The inves investl L tigat tigations of the Mount Sopris development were therefore discon tillued At least one of the maior features of the plan was not const ructed and others were probably not construded to sufficient 1pacity to allow full irrigatIOn development of the area The pJnn was also dependent upon several water exchanges that apparentlJ luTe not been made at the present time For t hese reasons it is believed that nn ndequate wnter supply is not av ilable for II arable lands in the a rea An undetermined portion of t he Mount Sopris lands could be pro vided ater through construction of a siphon across the Roaring Fork River Vallev from the poteut ial conduit le ding from Ruedi Rcsen oir to the Cattle Creek arca Sufficieut data are not available at t his t ime to determine either t he physical requirements or the eco nomic justificat ion of providing snell service The plan could be investig ated in eonjl1nction with possible investigations of the Cattle Creek del elopment Bluc8tone area The Bluestone area consists of lands along the north side of the Colorado River between the towns of Rifle and De Beque and on the south side of the riwr from the town of Grand Valley to a point about 5 miles downstream from De Beque Part of the lands on the nor h side of t he ri e r was on e served by the aban oned Hfl vemeyer IVtiCOX canal whIch was orlglllally constructed III lOO for dh er 373B RUED DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO 45 cana The sion of water from the river a short distance below Rifle and la eral system was never entirely completed and after a few ears operatIOn of t he canal was dlscontlIlued because of penodlc faIlures and high maintenance costs About 1 600 acres of lands on the sout h side of the river are noW irrigated from the Bluestone ditch which was constructed in 18D5 and heads on thc river about 6 miles downstream from t11e town of Grand Valley A dumped rock diversion structure at the head of the ditch is frequently made inoperative by floods and sedimentation About 760 IlCres including lands on both sides of the river now receive p artial supplies of irrigation water from small tributaries of the rIver the lands of the Bluestone area lie within the basin The De Beque project has been De Beque Reservoir investigatecl in reconnaissance scope by the Bureau of Reclamation but no lI1vestigations for preparatjon of a feasibility report have been scheduled The plan for development of the Blnestone area as presented in the Cliffs Divide report involves reconstruction and extension of the Havemeyer canal and rehabilitation of the Blnestone ditch The plan contemplated enlarl ement of the service area of the abandoned Havemeyer canal through extension of the canal and construction of a 1 of 11 570 irrigable wt ptunplllg plant and a major lateral A o cres1 lIlcluding 0 213 acres of fnll service lands were considered ir rigable under the plan The to1I productive ncreage after deduct ing 6 pereent from the irrigable acreage to allow for nonproductive use of lands was estimated at 10 875 acres The Havemeyer canal was planned to Ill e ll length of about 30 miles and an initial capacity of 215 second feet Some of the water diverted by the canal was w be siphoned across the Colorado River for delivery to lands a bove the Bluestone ditch by a lateral 30 miles in length It was est imated that the presently irrigated htnds to be supplied additional water under the de elopment noW experience a nnual water shortages equal to 30 percent of their diversion requirements The shortages are due to operational problems on the Bluestone ditch and the low flows of small tributaries of the Colorado River that nre now used 011 other irrigated lands within the area The annual diversion requirempnt for project lands was est imated to a verage 4 80 acre feet of water per product acre over an averaOe ive lowinl season extendinl from May 10 to October fl Records i Colorado River rnnoff indicated that the flows of the river would al ways be physically adequate to meet water requirements of the Blue lfuch of t 1e run ff however i s now used for stone develo m1 nt downstream liTIgatIOn under eXlst mg rights and at tllnes during the late Sllmmer months there is no excess flow in t he river Irrig ation water rig hts for the Bluestone ditch total 6 second feet DiverSions through the ditch have apparently neser been restrieted An irrigation water right in the amount of 200 by prior rights fbi the Hayemeyer Wilcox ditch under second feet was adjudic tted tte of September 1 IDOL In the Cliffs Divide an apprOj rlat lon d inve stIgatlOn it was assllmed that the IIavemeyer right wnsyet le O nlly valid even though the ditch has been abandoned for about 50 ars Nearly all of potential of the I I f l 46 3739 RUEDl DAM AND RESERYOIR COLO uudel the ihle ert further assumed that Ihe direct flos di would ditches I I a vemeyer supply t he rig hts for the Bluf stoIle and full diversion requirement of the irrigahle lands of the d Yelo llent p of ahout 44 800 ncre ftet of addlt IOllal llre aver An ithollt shol tafTc of addi irouctn Const annnallv Y ter would l ave heen fivaTlahle tional reservoir storage raS not cOllsiderer necessary in t he Clitfs Divide report It was anticipated that the in igable lauds of the area would be devoted to the production of a If a lfa cereals po utoes sugar b ets lga Estimates of payment cnpaclt y and the ll l pasture and fruit t ion benetits should be based on an economy of t his type Xu chunf1es in the rellera1 physical plan fol the Bluestone develop ment would be requil ecl for the lands to utilize water released fro n The releasps would be conveyed from the reSClTOlr Rncrti Reservoir ull1els of Frying pan Cl eek ROlL ring Fork Ri el and natura by cll of the Hnvemeyer canal and Colora do River to the diversion It was points the Bluestone ditch During a sllustftnt ial portioll of lleady e very irri ation eaSOll there would probably be sufficient water in tbe Colorado River to supply requirements of the Bluestone development and other existing and potential de elopments in the general area The amount of water that wonld be required from Huedi Reservoir fOT the Blue tolle lands during 10 flow periods would depend on 8everall1ndetermined fac tors These factors lnclndc the legality of diverting water under the ht rig previously estn blished for the HavBmeycr canal the possibility of ut ilizing other SOllrL eS of water on the Bll1e tone lands and the ateI supply due to other potential developments efl eet on the If t he previously established wat er right fol the I Iftemeyer callal were rletermined to l ellla in legally operative requil e ll releilses from oil for t he Blueslone lands would notnornnl1ly be greater Rlledi ne er than those necessnry to meet demands on the canal in ex ess of 200 If diversions could not be made under that right Ruedi se ond feet Reservoir storage wOllld be rerl1lirerl to supply at least in part the r the Haycmeyer c uml unrle reqllirements of the la nds Other potent ial de yelopments could conceivably either benefit or reduce the water supply fi ailnble to the Bluestone lands depending upon locat lOu and type of the ot hel de eloJllllents and upon the priority of t heir water rights with respect to any new rights required It is C onsidel ea tlult addit ional irri for the Bluestone development would g ation development of CaU e Creek nnd l Ionnt Sopris tHeftS in riase late summer flows of the Colorftdo Rin r because of nddi t iollftl retUI11 flow thereby reducing any required releases of slorage I rno ndditiomtl irrigation watf r for the nl11e tone lands de elop nrrH it there mcnts were made for the Cllttle Creek or Iollnt Sapris fore would be necessary to supply a greater portion of the Bluestone requirements directly from Ruedi Rescl yoir Summary Preliminary anulysps were made to provide all indication of how Ruedi Reservoir could be utilized to meet irrigation requirements of est iumt s dinr Stl the Cnttle Creek and Bluestone areaS eamflo sion requirements land aereages and return flow estimates prepared dllrin the Clifl s Divide invest iO 2 at ions were used in t he analyses b 1 3740 DAM RUEDI 47 COLO RESERVOIR AND liona water Ruedi Reseryoir was considered as the sole source of addit for t he Cattle Creek lands Sources of a lditional water cunsidere avaihlb1e for ged return flow increa th Bluestone a re consisted of from the Cattle Creek area find releases from Hue di Resen oir made either for the direct Use of t he Bluestone lands or to maintain fish It flows that would be surplus to other existing downstream uses was considered rleCeSl J to replace only the st reamflow deplet ion due t o irrigation of these lands diyerte to l of the ateI The irnedmear the lands ouId ret urn to the Colorado River and would be a ailable to ot her uses intended only ns n rough ap Re snlts of the studie proximation of possible nItBJ11ath e inoigat ion lIses of Ruedi Reservoir C aCl et fe are slll11lll uized in tJle following tn bnlntioll in thOllSflJlds of 1 Wa ter SUPp111 summary C TTLE CHEEK AREA l AVJi1 h e irrilwtifJn Jpplv from UI pl from TOIIl l ILr ct fllJw rnsnfl RUP I R r plr lhksur lil u n uJr n rsion reQlJiremcnL D1I u n July 4 4 3 4 tl 11 2 lfi i nu nlr H ISIIll t June l I IAllgUn O S 1 11 n K S 3 Tot l l eJ tfmbcr 0 10 4 J 1I no 11 IS D fl 10 4 1 2 1 2 1 8 3 UI 2 4 4 4 1 I BLUESTONE AREA Tuwl C Hll rpel r lurII n I w Pre f Ht l llttl Crrrk rr IUrn flow Inr Ctt p CH t k fe turn flow RUf r 1 fi h ton sscs Total CattJeCrrr kr I an 1 i iJ ii i fisi h lnJ f1 Cattle Cr ck r tum llownnd Hlledi fish h seITec vp til lt plE tion mcolllpl llsJIiJ11 rnr HJllesIOll Hu t1i rt It 3 e vr 1 I UI tl ToLl Hurdi waler Ll i1illltilt wiLhin Bluestone loplc n jl n u n BJu sWnc I 1 1 v e Ja n 1l 4 4 3 22 1 5 U 3 24 0 0 5 f J 43 1 4 2 1 Sol 4 2 s 0 29 8 1 21 12 33 I 11 1 4 7 7 l l I 0 2 r 1 2 i 0 4 3 1 1 n 5 l ti 3 3 0 L 3 J nnn drplelloo lor tbe IlQrlo j 1 I2 4 I 8 2 1 C 1 9 1 l I n n u VlIluE 10 3 9 n tnlJ1 Iu n rlh r jon requirl mt IlL Bllll tOl1t rl turn f1ow i n tl H t J 4l 1 Although the extent of potenlial irrigation development for the Sopris area is not presently known and for t hut reason not considered in the preceding tabulation it has been very roughly esti mated that the lands in that area coul l require an e of 3 000 avera acre feet of additional waterannllally On this bnsis the toTal ft el age annua l yield required from Ruedi Reservoir for alternative ltion irril1 lls lge w uulcl be in the neighborhood of 44 000 ncre feet The dep ndable a1111ua1 viele of water from Ruedi Reservoir ould vary somewhat depending upon the pat tern of water usa re and the availability of water from other sourceS to assist in meetin demn nds If the reservOIr ere operated solely to supply local irrigation de mandS1 It IS estImated that the total flyerage yield of the reservoir would be about G2 000 acre fe t annually Rased on tJle above figures it appears t hat Rued Reservoir could t ge of about 18 000 acre feet of water in excess of require ave YIeld an ments of the Cattle Creek Bluestone and Mount Sopris areas De rIount 1 ta11ed studies t l t the water requirements for hoever rTllg t sho the three areas would be eIther slgIllhcantly lower or higher than 48 3741 RUEDl DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO estimated in this report Factors that could affect tJ e a ter require ments include changes In plans lITIgable acreages dIversIOn reqUIre 9t flo ments and amounts and patterns of occ rrence of return ater may be subject to Alt hOllO h the requirements for irrIgatIOn suhstauti l modifications it appears that it can be reasonably con eluded fit this time that Ruedi Reservoir could provide an adequate water supply for the lands considered for irrigation development and such use would constitute a possible alternate to that of supplyin g municipal and industrial needs Therefore careful study of tins alternate is warranted to establish its desirability based on factors of ateI sources for the economy time of need and availability of competitive uses Fu tU7 e i n vest igations Any future investigations by the Bure au of Reclamation of irriga tion service from Ruedi Reservoir to the lands discussed herein should be of scope adequate to firmly esttlblish feasibility of development Detailed land cltlssification sun eys should be made to supplement the available reconnaissance inforination and more accurately deter mine the quality and e tent of the lands and their suitability for irrigation development Additional streamflow records and climato logical data should be obtained to evaluate ater supplies water requirements and capacities required for water conveyance and dis tribution facilities Plan formulation studies wo I1d be required to properly determine lHnds which could be economically served in conjunction with construction featm es necessary for such se rvice Field surveys ge ologieal lorations and detailed designs and eon st ruction cost estimates WOll d be reC ulred for nIl features Est imates should also be made of the costs of operatin and maintaining the required irrigation features Existing and antlCipated future farming operations crop yields expenses and markets should be analyzed to det ermine the payment ftbllity of the water users and to deri e esti mutes of Lenefits for comparison with costs of development Com pnl able studies should nlso be mnde of companion and alternative uses of irrigable lands and water from Rlledi Reseryoir to determine the proper and most economical cuurse of development eXj POWER ALTERN A TlVE considel tltion has been given to llydroeJectric powe r Power generation however would be develupment of limited amount ev n though all resen oir releases wete patterned to attain maximum output Available head would range from a minimum of 136 feet to a maximmn of 2G3 feet Under most fa vorable circumstances average a 11l111al ge neration would nmowlt to about 19 million kilowatt hours with an installed plnnt capacity of about 4 300 ki 10 att8 In nllY cnse the use of water for power Jld wf be lJinnte to a subol higher ueneficial use such as municipal and industrial water or irriga tion in any ultimate operating plan that future detailed investigations Also it is apparent t hat fterb re indicate ould be lIlation essential for the generation of an optimulll degree of firm power These stunies indicatc that the feasihility of power woultl be mar ginal eVell under the most favorable circumstances Preliminary at Ruedi Dam 3742 RUEDI DAM RESERVOIR AND 49 COLO ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL ANALYSES Costs As previously reported t he estimated project costs of Ruedi Dam and Reservoir based 011 J nnuary 195H prices amount to 12 831 000 7 600 000 is assignable to t he Fryingpan Arkansas Of this total project in conformance with the revised operating principles for t 1Ut project The assignment of costs to t he Fryingpun Arkansas proJect represents approxllnately 00 percent of the dam and reservOIr costs 12 770 000 exclusi e of 55 000 estimated for recreational facilities Interest during construction 011 the dam and reservoir is 664 000 Distribut ing this sum by the same percentage used for project costs 398 400 is assignable to the Fryingpan Arkansas project and 205 000 to westerI1 slope uses of Ruedi R eservoir Totnlllnnual operation mainteI1aIlCe and replacement cost s amount to lU 700 with 9 200 on the dam and reservoir proper and 10 500 on recreational facilities The latter portion is associated directly 200 therefore wit h public use of the reservoir The first portion of is subject to allocation The reyised operating principles provide that t he operation maintenance and replacement costs of Ruedi Reservoir he borne by users of Fl yingpan Arkansas project water and users oT Ruedi water in such proportion as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior Assuming this determination ill reflect the same rata distribution involved in project costs 00 percent of the dam pro 5 00 and reservoir operat ion maintenance find replacement or would be assigned to the Fryingpan Arkansas project and 3 700 to users of Ruedi Reservoir water A summary of the division of cost follows nnufLloper Construe tion costs Item Interest durinI atlon main o nd reJ lllccmcnt leDllllce on slruction costs Total Huedl Dnm and Reservoir Less lrccfciatliointail s 12 8 3 n n lDro Bal Assigned n ip ned to Asg Add recreational Total n nn nn Frringpan ArkfLIlSllS projecL to uSt rs of Ruedl RegeHQir water lciUl e r l SS51gned to Rued n Dam and Reservoir n 000 55 000 n 12 776 000 7 GOO 000 5 176 WJ u n 5 000 5 231 000 664 OOO f 9 701 JO 500 6tH OOO l6 400 3 9 XlI 5 500 265 000 3 700 10 500 n n n n 2l5 600 14 m All of the elements of cost of Ruedi Dam and Reservoir allocable to the Fryingpan Arksansas project ill be included in studies of eco nomic justification and feasibility for that project Analyses in this report therefore will deal essentially with those costs which are assigned to western slope uses of water from Ruedi Reservoir Benefits t of Ruedi Oir Reser Under the tentative plan of operat ion tangible benefits from western slope water uses will accure from future mu llicipal and industrial water supply and the associated functions of flood control fish and wildlife and recreation 503743 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO As described earlier the cost of the cheapest single purpose alter nati e reservoir is considered to be t he value or benefit of municipal and indtls rial water The selected alternative is the Placita site on t he Crystal River above Carbondale Colo Annual benefits ould be 410 000 for a 50 tr analysis tnd 323 000 for a 100 year analysis ye l benefits al sing frolll flood control As indicated previously anm fish and wildlife tnd recreation at Ruedi Dalll and Reservoir are 11 500 172 000 and 80 000 respectively Benefit cost analysis Comparison of these annual benefits with those portions of costs of Ruedi Dam and Reservoir assigned to western slope uses of water 1 e sults in benefit cost ratios of 3 26 to 1 for a O year period of analysis The latter tnd 3 07 to 1 for t l00 t1 period ye period is well ithin the lIsefullife of the dam and reselToir The derivation of these ratios follows Perind 0 l Iin 1J si5 Iteru 50 J lOO Jr S menl l In l rojcf T t Alln 1 l1 on durJll11 tioll trU d n n u n 2 ll 0110 is IjOO lr 4 5 4Ylj nUIJ h 1 UO Cl L lH lstment 0 luivJleUL E Dilm alld H cr llOll ll Cl 3 MI 1 u ir I I r t iOrl leratIIJn IlUllIl tell rcs r h 3 71111 AJU and rlCpl ellleDt mllillLelllll1 aud tel 13ccmenL lO n I n IfIO 3 700 1O JU l fJOU O 1 4 JUO 4 5 1 10 11 iOO I 11 1 tl ItIO 323 000 II 000 r7 o5St n TOL3Lnn ADtlU3 I 2 1 000 i 6UIl u t rosL lntere E lr9 henefits lpal lunl and FloCld C Olltrnl Fl h lll l HeC H ilt UIl TotnLn o l ratJ Benefit Oo jt jl1uslrb y atcr n n d d wUdJile mm hh m d I 3 6 1 000 17 BO UIKl 500 a o57 allocatio n portion of costs of Ruecli Dam and Reservoir assigned to west slope uses is allocable to t he purposes of municipal and industrial water supply flood control fish tnd wildlife and recreation Vith re sped t o recreation existing policy provides t hat t he allocations be limited to specific or separable costs These costs include 55 000 for minimum basic recrea tion facilities and annual operation maintenance and replacement costs of 10 500 llction constl Interest during for these recreation featurcs was not since they could be built mleul tted and pbeed in sen iee ithinl year The em 74 J or RUEDI D I 51 COLO RESERVOIR AND All ot her western slope costs of t he dn l1 and l e sen o r are not t o the purposes sen ed a1Ht therefure remaIn as omt cosh A segregation of costs follows se pnrable Int r AnnlJaln 5t aLion uUflIlg Proit ct It0m 1 000 55 OOU 5t5 1 RemaillingjOintcosts 5 J ili l U 1 1 201l 2G5 tiOO 13 atrd ullo h scpnmblcrccrc LLion o Les ill t nd J Ct llll nl repl tlOn Total costs 10 ll r m tl n lTJc rUC cuIISt lsts C liJI lU I 65 000 I 3 il l ysis lll The allocation of costs is based upon a lOO year period of Benefits and alternative costs for municipal and industrial water supply Rre synonymous Alternative costs studies for flood control and fish und wildlife have not been made therefore capltali ed bene fits constitute the ceiling s of costs that may be allocated to t hese llad nlterntl been prepa red for these 8 cost estimate purposes it is would have exceeded the beuefits that the results purposes likely The allocation is shown in the next tahle Cost allocation RuetH Dam and Rt 8cnoir o lIl1tSin AIl It Hellen rl1 It C Jll lhle tlfi lpltalile t j1 l O ts I Prn el Oper n ltlllcnt Rp TlJuinrlt r l ero nt Ii rrihu 1 eml i il1 jll 1I TOt t rc Jn cownt j o 00 ln n c l n j nlaint li lJJ7t L n IU Plcstclur llQCOIlS TlJctlrlll OI Pllitloll lll ljntcna n anIJ rephlcemenL capllulizc L Ul I i rt ll pl Llmite J Tl l tHl oper on llLeIlL to t i IIIIf 11 87 00n We wil 18 2 42l uOO fi 4 i ooij i 2ii Of fJ Hec 92g QOO n un n n nnn n un u n 0110 nun 143 n n 1 00 1 5rlO 43 01 11 u n on n 135 1l0 Olf liOU 5 n J llli 21 5 1 00 H s i 000 Il I Flsll alld Flood cOlltrol n 18 5 6 IlIlO l nO 5 ii l lO lifi OO 2 i WO n c II n J8 inn n rr 00 i n n l 110Utlu l ll i P durinewnS1Turtlno llinl1 lc repl tru II Tlun crlJoitJllzcdu n f mjert ro tS Inleres r ron tion H1l1lnl rt l l tri l r lon Si 0011 U IR IF 4 1 0 i 111 Q u I lpal 1ullt mdioolls l I u t Interest during Op L ts llt mllturc l aliJ Sep I Total m rlnllarsJ r O OOI1 00 ii si 4illiJ 2 J 000 j l J 2 rlljl l Jli I 1 6 OIJU tnu rilt 1Q l 3 6 5QiJ a J I iOO 169 lQO il JR J Ij I UU 00 J 3Un iUII I 6 0 tjJii 3 r C 38cl n fJ OOO 1 iSi J 8 J IOU n0 IJO f OOO ff flOO l lln 5 btll 90 20U 1211 18 4 1 1 3 u lU l u nn u 90 200 41 n 4jqO fo5 flOD u n 3S4 SQO 000 linlemll ce lIl osLs spedllc 1 H 200 2 300 I 100 1 30 I 10 00 costs or rccreuttoo rll ilities Repayment analysi Under existing poliey capito l and annual costs allocated to flood control and to fish nnd wildlife are nonreimbursable It is proposed that costs alloc ated to recreation be nonreimLursahle throl1 rh specific anthorizat ioll Vestel u slope l eimbulsaLle costs therefor are lim 3743 52 RUEm DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO ater supply ited to amounts allocated to municipal and industrial costs rollows reimbursable and uonreimbursable A summary of Amount 12 831 000 1 600 000 Total project cost Ruedi Dam and Reservoir Assigned to Fryingpan Arkansas projecL Costs allocated to western slope uses Les8 nonreimbursable allocations Fll od controL F sb and wildlife 5 231 000 111 500 1 757 800 55 000 RecreatioD 1 930 300 Reimbursable allocation to municipal and industrial water 3 300 700 169 400 supply Repa rltble interest during constructioIL Total municipal and industrial wa ter invps lmenL 3 4iO 100 Sen ce for munici ul und indust rial water supply will be on a deferred basis A su stllntial demand for municipal and industrial water win not OCCllr until about 197fJ lpproximateJy D yenl s after Therefore provisiolls of the Ruedi Reservoir will proville storage Yater Supply Act of 1058 Public Law 85 500 are applicahle This nct prorides that deferred use may extend not in excess of 10 years interest free and that allocated costs may not exceed 30 perceut of In this case the cost of Ruedi Dam the total cost of the storage works and Reseryoir allocated to municipal and indust rial water of 3 300 700 comprises less than 6 percent ofthe total project cost The rate of intel est uuder the Watel Supply Act of 1058 applicable to alr i1Io1nat of repayable interest during construction and to amor tization of t he total investment aft er the permissible deferred period is the computed rage tlye ra te paya ble by the Treasury upon its out standing nUlI ket able public obligations which are neither due nor ca llable for redelllpt ion for Further the 1 H s from date of issue ye applicable rate of interest is computed as of the beginning of the fiscal yea r in Which constTtwtion is initiated As presently certified by the Secr of the Treasury the interest etar rate to be used for fiscal year 1960 is G99 percent Since the base studies of interest during construction for Ruedi Dam an l ervoir Re use nn interest rnte of 2 6 pe ref nt t he repayable interest during con struction associated with municipal and industrial water supply is subject to upward adjustment Hevision of 160 400 at 5 percent interest to a rounded rate of 2 7 percent ields 18 3 000 for adj nsted Tlw total municipal anu inuustrial interest during construction water supply investmeut then becomes 3 483 700 ine luding the 3 300 700 or allocated reservoir costs Repayment of this inves ment over a 50 year period with int erest at 2 7 percent plus ano ated annual operat ion maint enance llnd replacement costs would require nllnunl revenues as follows Equivalent of investment new revenues Allocated annual operation IllRlntenRnce rotal nnnnnl revenue amI replllcem Dt 12j JOO 2 300 130 000 Demand for storage water would increase in time in accordance ith the rnte of urban growth and the oil shale indnstry and o ud In view of vary mversely to annllal preclplt at lOn and treamflows RUED 3746 DAM AND RESERVOIR 53 COLO these circumstances it probably will be more practical to anticipate of allocated 1ZatlOn amort future repayment contract based upon ateI service charges costs by equal annual payments rather than by on an acre root basis For purposes of illustratioll however the required annual char e of 130 000 for municipal and industrial water as related to t h average annual water requirelnents of 34 GOO acre feet would amount to about us reflected by hydrologic studies 3 75 an acre foot During t he deferred or accru111 use period or prior to the execution of a repayment contract it is proposed that the operation mainte nance a nd replacement of 2 300 annually which has been assigned to municipal and indust rial water would ue prorated among the remain ing western slope functions of flood control fish and wildlife and recreation a I 10 CONCLUSIONS ArlO RECOMMENDATIONS Clusio C01 ns Based upon reconnaissance or preliminary data construction of the Ruedi Dnm and Reservoir appears to be feasible More detailed in vestigations will be required to prepare final designs and estimates for construction of the dam and reservoir After making releases of water from Ruedi Reservoir to meet down st ream vested rights find replacement requirements stemming frOln diversions by the Fryingpnn Arknl1sas project and making bypnsses for fish in the Fryingpan River the reservoir would rovlde 70 000 nere feet of storage water which together with availab e streamflows will meet future requirements for municipal and industrial water expected to urise from commercial oil shale development in western Colorndo In addit ion to serving these needs Ruedi Dl1IIl and Rese rvoir would provide substantial benefits to fish and wildlife and recreation Oper ation of the reservoir also would result in some benefits to flood control through storage of snowmelt dnring the potential flood seaSon Annual benefits of municipal and industrial water flood control ildlife and recreatil n provide economic justification for fish and those portions of capital Rnd ll costs of Ruedi Dam lnd Resenoir annu hich are in excess of those borne by the Fr ingpan Arkansas project Const ruction of Ruedi Dam and ResenOlr as a substi tute for Aspen Dam and Reservoir will not affe ct the water supply justification and feasibility or plan of development for other features of t he Fryingpan Arkansas project Of t he total estimated project cost of 12 831 000 for the Ruedi Dam arid Reservoir 7 600 000 would be borne by the Frying pan Arkansas project leaving 5 231 000 associated ith western Colorado uses of This amount is tentatively allocated as follo s ateI resen oir 117 500 fish and wildlife 1 757 800 and recreation Flood control and municipal and industrial water 55 000 all nonreimbursable supply 3 300 700 reimbllrsable In view of deferred use of municipal and industrial lter w the allo ate sha e of interest cated project costs plus an aPP opI during con structIOn would be repayable With mterest III accordance with provi sions of the Water Supply Act of 1958 Public Law 85 500 I I 54 374 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO I f Ruedi Dam and Reservoir should be aut hori7 f 1 fiS an integral ff llt llIP of the Frvingpan Arkansas project and should be constructed In accordllllce with the a olle of the initlal felltUl eS of that project iopJeralt principles the reservoir must Le in operation before diyer sians of nlt r are made by t he Fl yingpnn Al kanSflS project e the St ate of Colorado has not yet allocated its total water Sill iOUl re ceS for benchcinll1se within the State nnc1 since there are physical wer use of wutel from potent i dities for inigntion and possibly Ruedi rvoil Rese furt her illrestigat ions s umld be plogrnnH d and carried out during the cOJlstruct ion of the dam and resen oil so that the most economic and desirable plan of operation may be ndopted itter in We tern ldo for uses of T IJwestigat ions of the potent ial COlO1 Ashcroft Resenoir should be undertaken when directed by the Secre tary of the Interior in accordance with the reyised operating principles Rccomm ion lIdaf j I recoDlmend that A The Secret ary of the Interior aplH ove and process this report for transmittal t o the Congress for its iidel atioll in conned inn with cow the pending authorization of the Fryingpan Al kansas project B Construction of Ruedi Dam amI el oir be carried out as an Re initial feature of the Fryingpan Arkansas project C Funds be programed and approprilltions be requested for investi gations to be carried out during the construction period to formulate the most economic and desirable plan of operat ion for Ruedi Reservoir considering Jlotentialities for aU belieficial uses of water in western Colorado JOlIN N SPENCER Director 3748 APPENDED MATERIALS App r lldi designation Letter report Corps of A Engineers repolt Fish and Wildlife Service Iemorundmn report National Pa rk Service B andum AIemol C Consult ants report water requirements for oil shale 1D60 75 Consultants report possible use of Ruedi Reservoir for meet ing storage requirements for the oil shale industry Consultants report Basalt D for municipal and industrial water Rifle De Beque en in Colorado E F projcet 55 3749 APPENDIX A CORPS U S ARl at Y EKGINEEItS LEITER REPORT ENGlXEER DISTHICT Los ANGEU S COHrs OF JGINEERS E 21 1969 Refer to File No SPLGP F Mr n J V LTf l rr 7 U Bul ca u of Reclamation Dirfy tor Regio S De Den veT Federal Ccnter nl o 0010 DE H IR Yc LTER HeferellcB is maue to yonI letters of Mny 15 and June lD 1 5D relnt ing to the Bureuu of Heelnmnt inn s prop used cli Dam illd Reservoir UIl the Fryin q HUt lll River a nd especially to a brief Jetter the Los Angeles District for from your request report by abollt August 10 covel jng fluod control aspects ilnd benefits of Los Angeles alif July thnt project UpOll previous consideration in lor o of t he Rlledi Dam and Resenoir OU1 agencies Ul l cd in the opinion that COlH lpenyane t assig lecl flood control storag e nt the site could not be eeollomically cver snowmelt floods are the principal source of flood that re gioIl lInlI flood control IY the eonsel vation sturage cYtu uiltion based OIL forecast of snowmelt runoff will appreciably re duce the flood menace Limitation of funds of persoIlnel and of timB sut1ieiellt for a thOI OlWh jn e tigntioll and rp port will not permit a l etl nite determination f flood control uenefits but rough tlpproxim l tlOns ha ve been made The FryiJlgpaIl Hivel a stream ahout Hi miles long is n t ributary r which of the Roaring Fork Riy joins the Colora do River at GleIl wood Springs Cola The Frying pan River drainage area whieh comprises about 272 square miles rangeR in elevntion from about j f on feet to about 13 00 feet abuve sea leve1 The Roaring Fork e area wllich River comprises about 1 4tiO square miles ranO cs draina in eJnvation from about 5 700 feet to about 13 500 feet About 830 square miles of this latter drainage area He upstream from Basalt which is the point of confluence of t he Fryingpall HiveI and t he ROil ring Fork River at I i el mile 25 7 The slopes of these two streams from the RLledi ite to Basalt ancl from Basnlt to Glellwood Springs are about 68 feet per mile and 34 feet per mile respectively t he Frying pan River bel w the llamsite is generally deeply ent renched r Jl a eanyon out t lle oarlIlg For Ri er meand l s i 1 a I arrow valley whos fiooI l tlnges from olle half mIle to 1 1l1l1e In wldth he t cen Basalt nIl tl Carbonda le river mile 4 amI is generally tleeply en t renched III a from Carbondale to Ghmwuod Spl inrrs valley nalT9Iw The Colorado Ri U between Glenwood Springs antI the head f justUied Ho damage in ilJ Grand Valley lies 1 neLl row iil vallcy or canyon sections i7 52351 fO j 11J 0 1S RueDI DAM AND OIH COLO RESER Tlle grea test floor1 of a 58 year record on the Roaring Fork River 18 700 cubic feet per secoild at Glenwood Springs on July 1 1957 ll F lYlIlgl an RIver A record of similar le ngth is not antilnhle for t The three cOllnti s uf Gartielrl Eagle and Pltklll winch embrace c Sons most of the l cf 1 l1 en had a l opl Ila tion ill U 5t a vel aging a I a r as has not C lunged t he overflow he mile poplIlatlOll1Jl per square appreciahly in l Cellt years The H f O populatIOns of GI lwood 3 and 1 4 Carbonda le Basalt and Aspen were 2 412 was Springs 16 respedlvely s III the Fl ylI1g sl nwmelt flo A p elimina r conside rntioll of majo n lver and In t he dralllnge area of t he COl ll ado n y I abo e GI nnd pa Valley indicate that tile peak discha l ge at the Ruedl 1 rn SIte 1ll1 ght ry be about 8D percent of 1 contempol I peak on the Fr lngpan RIver at its mouth j nhollt 48 percent of the em responding peak Ol the Roaring Fork River just below the mouth of the FrJ iugpan R1ver aLont 36 percent of the correspondmg lk on t he Ronl mg F rk RIver pe I11d abont 18 to 15 percent of th correspoIlchng peak at its mouth Fork River on t he Colorado River between the month of the and the mouth of tJle Gunnison River Complete contro of snowmelt flood oir ollld elimin Lte all poteutia discharges at the Ruedi Res damage OlL the Fryingpan River downstream Such control would substantially reduce flood damage on t he R oa ring Fork Ri er below the mouth of the Fryingpttll Hi reI PercentagEwi e t he damage caused by Fryingpan River waters aong the Colonldo Ri er ould be a relatively small part of the potential damage in that pan of the led to above refel Colorado l iver The overflow areas under considernt ion include 13 5 miles along the Fryin nn River 25 7 miles along the Roa ring Fork River and Ri er is about 90 mIles alon t he Colorado River The yingpan Fl well entrenched and the only present development a long that stream that is subject to flood damugl consists of about 1 mile of 2 lane p n ed highw y 2 highway bridges and about 14 abins most of hieh a near the eha nnel in or ndJllcent to 1lt In gellentJ the Roaring Ba Fork Rive r between Basalt and Carbond de is in a valley avemging Below Carbond tle the valley is narrower about 0 75 mile in width and t h st ream is g nernlly deeply entrenched Along the Roaring Fork River affected by floods includes about 2 500 aeres of it h agricult ural lan devoted mostly to pasture about 1 farm buildings 7 road bridges about 2 miles of railroad 0 5 mile of State highway and 0 75 mile of othe r roads The value of lands and improvements susceptible to flood damage along t he Colora do River bet een Gle nwood Springs MId Grand Junction has not been definitely est imllted The ntlue of all property in the oVl rflow areas between Ruedi Dam site 01 the Fryingpnn River and Grand Junction on t he Colorado River is belie ved to be at least 1 million and may I ach million million to Very little information is now aTail able upon which to base nn est imate of future values in the overflow n reas In general the development in these a reas seems stuhilized nnd dllmu g es have been est imated on this iasoumnpt On t he basis of It fl Jlxl damage SUl ve y made fte r the 1957 flood 18 700 cubic fee per second at the Glenwood Springs gage on t he RoaTlng Fork Rn er the total flood damage dong the Fryingpan Roarinr proferty dwellinlfs 375i HUED DA l 1 AKD 59 COLO OIfi RESEfi below the Rlledi Dam site and a long t he main stream of the Riyer below Basalt was estimated at about 3 000 for that flood The l2lans for the Rnedi Dam proyide for an earthtillstn ture about 210 feet In heIght aboye st reilIllLed wIth an ungatcd sp1l1wtl Y and ith a totll reservoir capacity of about 100 000 acre feet at The acti e spillway crest elevat ion i iG4 feet bO e sea le el aplleity would be avont 82 00U acre feet The outlet works would ImYlj a discha rge ca pa city of about 1 000 cubic feet pel second at millim ulll head and about OOO cuhic feet per secolld at spillway crest elevlltlOn wi rh the The reservoir provides for HemeIlt stoI a e in icoon led repl a nd the entire lL t i B diversion Arlmnsas proposed Fryingpan proJect storage capacity below spillway cre t is assigneu to water conservation The dam would be located at about ri er mile 13 5 on the Fryingpan River and the reservoir would hnye a drainage area of about 227 With the outlet square miles pacity as planned the entire nount of active storage could be evacuat ed In about 30 days If carefully operated for flood control by evacuation of the aetive storage on the basis of foreca sts of snowmelt inflow a lmost complete control of snow melt floods at the damsite probably could he obtained The average Ian ua future flood damage from uncont rolled SIlOW melt floods is estimated as follows on t he FryingpaJl Ri Vel below the Ruedi Dam site 500 and 011 the Roaring ol k River below Basalt 4 500 The ltVerage annual future damage from uncontrolled snow melt floods on the Colorado Ri er between Henwood Sprillg5 and s not been uefinitely estimated hut it appears that 9 rand Tunction hn It uld be at least 11 000 The total of these potential flood damages from uncontrolled snowmelt floods amounts to at least 16 000 an nually The operat ion of the Ruedi Dam and Reservoir for control of snowmelt flood could prevent from 8 000 to 15 000 of a vera e allllUal flood damage The upper limit of 15 000 is a very tentati e figure because of a lack of presently available data on floods all 1 on flood damage along the Colorado River Hi el Roaring Fork Very trnly YOllIS C T Jnel Col f j Cor1 8 0 Engi1l eI s EWTON N Di 1 iot Enghieer 3752 APPENDIX B MEMORA By DUM REPORT Bureau of Sport Fisheries and 1Vildlife Fjsh and Wildlife Service Albuquerque N Mex August 26 1959 DEPART1UENT OF THE INTERIOR FISH AND V ILDLIFE SERVICE BUREAU OF SPORT FrSHt IUES kNn VU DLIFE flU 1959 Albuquerque N lVem lust AU US MElIORANDU1I Regional Director Region 7 Bureau of Reclamation Denver Colo From Regional Dir clr Ruedi Reservoir Colo Bureall of Sport Fisheries and 1Vild Subject li fe Heport This memorandum constitutes this Bureau s l ecol1llai sance report t l l1etioll and on to the on the relation of fish tllhl wildlife rE s 11rce pre ently planned b v tJle Bureau of operation of Ruedi Reservoir as The report has be en prepared lIndct the ll1thol it y of Reclamation the Fish and 1Yildlife Coordination Act 48 Stat 401 as amended 16 The Colorado Department of Game and Fish has V S C 661 et s q cooperated in its preparation find eonCUrs in its contents by telegram of August 18 19D9 si llpd by Director Thomas L Kimball Abuut 7 miles of pan Rhcr and its tributn ries ilnd three small lakes will be inundated by Ruedi Reservoir According to a of and Fish lish shocking a Game Colorado Department report by aw more lUTge crew that worked the stream a few years ago the men trout in one section of this reach t hnll in nny other efluallcngt lt strenm The river within the reservoir site also contains section in the State extensh e spawning grounds probably used oy trout of the Roaring Fork RIver as wen as the Frymgpl111 Fryingpan River provides one of the best and most heavily fished trout fisheries in Colorado During the next 50 years an a erage of ill be nssociated ilIUlU3 11y about 60 000 in fishermen s expenditures ilh angling On the 7 miles of mnin stream and tributaries aHa the Fishermen 1Ise on the 1 3 5 three small lakes within the reservoir site miles downstream from the reseIToir site will result in associnted ex pcnditll1 es of about 135 000 aunually for the next 50 years without the projed R1H di ervoil s average anllllal minimum pool wiII have an area Re or GOO acres The surfaee of the l l servoir will finctuate an average of 64 feet each year The fiverage annual fishil1g use for thp next 50 years on Rendi Reser yair will flnlOllnt to ahout 25 fishermen per acre with associated spods men s expendit lIres of about 22000 anllually To Frying 60 3753 RUED DAM AND Rl SERVOIR COLO of Ruedi Reser oir as planned will reduce and stabilize of nstre m Hom the dam The n River do Fryingl more uniform yenr rollnd flows will impl O e fish n d provide bitat ha better condit ions for fishing in the early months of the fislung seaSOll However good aquatic hubitat and heavy fishmg pl e lll e already e xist 011 this reach and we predict only about a 5 percent increase in due with t he project l This results in erage nnnual figure of sportsmen s expenditures for tie next GO years of about 14 000 ill destroy The project 7 mile reach of beautiful high quality oir fishery reser heavily used trout st ream fishery create a fair sized and increase the n eragr l 1lI11lal vnllle of the downstream fishery Without the project sportsmen s expenditures wi total about 105 000 anuaIly Tit h the projed sport slllen s expenditures lindeI the wi amount to about 36 000 annnally Total bene sponsor s plan fit s to the fishery in terms of nn increase in sportsmen s expenditures ill alllount to about 17 000 annually with the project The effects of Ruedi Resen oir on big gamp Hnd upland game ill be insignificant Ho weyer the immdatlOl1 of three slllall private lakes and t heil adjacent wetlands will eliminate popubtiol1s of water fowl and n qun t ic fur animals hich are at If l st of 1ot al impurt ance The marshes provide habitat for mll krnts nTHl nesting watel fol the production of which will be much less wit h a fluctuating resen oir A fut ure definite plan report should gh e consideration to t he possibility of a suhimpoundment on Ruedi and or Bagley Creeks for tish all wildlife conservation or wate rfowl improvements around 1li550n1 i Heights Reservoir 18 miles norlh est of the project area Operation the streamflo I Gl JOHN C GATLIN 3754 APPENDIX C PUF JUfINARY HECr F ATIO STAT DIE NT RL DI RE ARKANSAS PRDTECT COLORADO Iemorn ndl1m report X FRYIXG F RVOm by National Park Service Region Nebr August 1909 DEP OF TUE lENT RTl N IO J AL STEHIOR I PARK SERVICE GIO RF 2 OFFICE Omaha Nebr l IE Omaha 2 J flu t 4 959 M ORANDU Director Bureau of Reclamation Region 7 Building4G Denver Federal Center Denver Colo From Acting Regional Director National Park Service Region 2 To Regional Subjeet Preliminary recreation statement Ruedi Reservoir Frying Colorado pan Ark msas project Ve are submittillg 1 preliminary recreation statement concerned with the Rl1edi Resel oir in Colorado as requested by your memoran It is prepared in accordance with our a gencies dum of TuJy 6 ID5U Ve ould appre memorandum of agreemeut dated April 0 W50 A copy of the state ciate receiving any comments YOU may have ment is going to each ol1e of t he agencies listed at the end of this memorandum and their commp nts ar likewise solicited This statement is based upon the operat ion of Ruedi as a n indi oh e any sturly of the entire vidual reservoir only and does not il1 Fryingpan Arkansas project The reservoir site was visited in Tuly 1 5fl by a representatlYe of tlv National Park Service and one from the Bureau of Reelama tion regional office Information reg lrding openttion of the propose d re servoir was The dat a did Jlot furnished from your office iexnpla land acquisit ion n Ve obtained preliminary info proposals mati uboll t present nJ future fishmg values from the Bureau of port Flshenes aud WIld life The National Park Service hlts prepal efl previolls reconna is sance reports 011 the general region as follows Recreat IOn Use and Development Blue South Plu tte Tl tLllSnlOlUltain Diversir ll Project April 1048 Revised Recreational RecollllaissaIlce Report GU1 J ison Arkansas Transmol1I1tain Diversion Pl ojecL December 1049 According to the tentative pIa n Ruedi Dam and Re ervoir will bo tel in addition to operated to supply municipal and inclustrial and nt and fish hypasses es for vested relea replaeem making rights It is understood that the Frnngpan Arknnsas project may be modi fi d to the extent of substituting Ruedi Reservoir for Aspen Reservoir 62 lJ H RUEDl DAM AND COLO RESER OlR 63 If constructed as plllnnerl the resen oir would be about 1 miles long find average fOUl tenths of a mile in width Bltle South PJ tte fll oje t A report by the Bureau of Reclamat ion dated Tune 1048 made the following reference to the huedl Dam Construdion of thia dam would require acquisition of about 1 0tlO lCI l of primtely o ned lnnd iucluding some 250 3eres of farmland and 2 homes nud farm buildings It would be necessary to relocate approximately 7 5 miles ice r of State Highway 104 and approximately 7 5 miles of Forest S telephone line A total of about 1 00 acres of land will be acquirerl a portion being t onal Forest Na in t he White Riyer The reservoir site is on the FrJingpan River a tributary of the Roaring Fork Riyer in Eagle and Pitkin Counties It is within the Wllite Riyel National Forest boundary and is about 5 miles south 1fuch east of Glenwood Springs allll 20 miles nort h of Aspen Colo land in t he vaHey is privately owned and is used for farming or grazing Access to the site is by State IIighwa y 104 This area is surroLIllded by mountain country of considerable scenic character where opportunities exist for such forms of recreation as hiking fish ing mount llin climbing camping pllek t rips and nature study Ma ny of the mountains upstTeam are snow capped for most of the veal sup There are plying cold and clear water for t he pan RiYer Fryinf l e nse forests of spruce numerous small lakes in t he high country pine and aspen cover the sides of the mountains find border most of the streams Fishing is reported to be good ill the FryiIlgpUl River Hunting These activities in the re rioll is considered equal to n ny in the Stn6e support uest ranches cabin camps fishing lodges llnrl public camp grounds in the valley lndicn t ions are thnt an increasing number of people are being attracted to this region for vacations Cool nights and SUIUlY days are also features that attract visitors to t his vicinity Iea I snowfalls are common and the during the summer season genera l region has some fine areas for winter sports According to the census of 1050 about 30 000 people hyed wlthll1 The lack of roa ds in this a 50 mile radius of the reservoir site nece sa distances of travel to t he reser would make region ry longer The resident population is augmented voir for some of t he people each summer by a trelivelay large number of summer residents tOllr ists Yllcationists and sportsmen who visit the region According to current proposals the reservoir ut normal water sur face ele lltion 7 764 would form an impoundment of about 1 000 sur face acres Under t he tentative operating plan inactiye storage ele vation would be 7 622 with water surfaee of 305 acres Operational data furnished bv the Bureau indicates that the water leyel will be well above t he de Ld storage pool during the summer recreation senson It appeRrs that the elevation of water during Tune July and August in all but exceptionally dry years ill ayerage about 7 7fi 3 with L water The increase in eleva t iolls from 92 acres surface area of about spring to summer months would amount to about 0 feet During the the elevations micrht it is estimated surruner recren tion season that The highest l vels ou d be reached about 7 feet inter months with the Lowest levels would occur d ring Ju in April e 0 public land g f1Uliate during 643756 RUE Dr DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO This reseryoir would illundate the ROI Y Fork c ampground oper The ated bv the U S Forest Service near the slte of the RlIeJ Dam national efi ect adverse upon any rese rv Jil will have no foreseeable State 01 Ioal park The FryjJl pan wntershed is o le of t lE few renUlIllJ1lg llfitll al arcas in the Colorado Rocky Iountam regIOn except thosE Jll wilderness hic h h l e not beml r lltltionnl parks intlded uy roads mines areas HiveI itself illtrllsions The represents an 1111 and other Fryingpnn Cl distnrhcd fishing stl eam lL l psource that is fast disappenring work roads bOlTo v n l ens clc IlIIlB strnction of th e dam p wel plan t cOllllede l wIth the proposed lwo ed would elll1ll iaedivsit r otlte find nate Ilatural ql1alit ies of t he yalley by the ereation of ronstl lIction sea r The ren ion has historical signiAci111Ce from t le standpoint of goJd No defil1ite historit nl sites are hllOW11 l llsh anr sih er mining days to net ually exist ill t he resl n oir site although it is possible that re search wo ul rlise ose feat llres f importnnce Prelinlinnl Y information obtained from t lIe Bureau of Sp0l1 Fish ii llifc indicates that fishing activity ill tlle rt sl l vnir and eries a nel i cOnflUCJlf O wit h Roarillg Fork HiveI it t lIn from the dam to nst1 don HP of the 1IlIE S to be gJ C ttl l th 1n p e ellt portiQTI of t he river likrl i il lne nS t hat con ider lble I cercat j Jl ad ivity It n l pl rlrs rp aona le to can be xpectell if operation of the reservoir is such 15 to maintnin an table elenltion during Slimmer nde qllate r surface and a rat her yate include picniddng boating fishing months These uses Will lbly prob hiking and camping Swimming and rater skiing will not be popu lar as water aboye 7 00 f et i USll 11y l ool l There mny be fL future cle mantl for seasonal cabin sites er lIowe this type f ldivjt y HlWit be Ipproved by the administering agency nncI will depend npon t llf n ailability of suitable lnnd not l eqllirect for resen oil a 111 public Il e ratiol ope During an invest igat ion of the site in July it appeare that the most fensible locat ion for State I ligl1 104 would be nl tlJle high water level nJong the Borth shore The most adaptable area for reere nt io na l development a ppC ared to be on a ridge enst of Bagley Creek in sect OilS Nos 7 and 8 Since We und erstand thltt t he engineering and atn fur iopconnlrat nIshed 11S were tenta t iye u IHl subject to revision with no information reg ardlllg pruposals for acquisition of land anI cost estimat f1s which follow a re based upon previolls st udies of c The 56 01llpal nhle areas cost est lInates and bencllt are t hey ngures necessarily conjectural sincE dea J yith nallY int n ngibles r I IS estImated that 55 000 would be required to provide minimum b fnc ilities that might properly be considered a Federal responsi blht y This expenditure would invoh e the deyelopJllent of a Pllblic use area along the north shore of the reservoir on a naturnl ridge east of Bngley Cre ek 31111 a fishing camp nt some suitable locntioll ifl a ba y along t lw north shore If addit ionalland is specifically reql1iJ ed for reercatton the cost should he added to t he f stimate The cst im 1te does not include l ephcemcnt of exist ing Forest Service faeilities that would be inundnted I 3757 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO 65 Estimated annual Federal costs blLsed upon 25 yelLr lLmortization would amount to about 3 000 vith administl a tioll operation and maintenance of the minimum unsic facilities costmg 7 lOO These estimates lLre based upon t he assumption thut Highway 104 111 1 If this is lot done it wouh be relocated a long tlle north shore be necessary to add au fl ldit ional GO OOO to coYer constructlOll cost of an access road from the dam along the north short 11 4 miles eanst road would be needed to the du y use area Also an additional ess acc It appears to the lishing campsite if Highway 104 is not relocated best to extend a road west from the town of Meredit h for a distance of about 1 mile rather t han all the way from the day use urea Jleal Bag ley CI eelr Thi road would cost about 15 000 over less difficult ter rain than that leading to the day use area In considering possible public llse of TI uedi Reservoir a major con sideration is t he many and diversitied a ttraet ions throughout t he inmoulta rjthout definite dara concerning regions of the Stat e reservoir openLtion illld stability of the wate r ele utiolls uuring SllIll mt r mOlllhs it is difficult to predict recreation use of the reseryoir Future visitation will depen l to a l trge extent upon nccess roads and adequate tleyclupment of re refltion facilities Also the pupular ity will be uetennined to a great degree b l t he quulity of fihing If sollilule reu to nIl of the e requirements arc satisfnetorily met it seems estimate an almunl yisitor dav attendance within the near future of 50l000 The lnnwtl monet u y beneHts derived from this estima te would he 80 000 In f1t cordance it h a memorilwlum of understanding between the Bureau 01 Hedun1 a tion and t he U S Forest Sen ice it is llssumed that the Forest Service would administer the publie recreation facilities since the reservoir would be within the boundary of the vVhite Riyer N alion d Forest The folIowi ng recommendations are suggested in conjunction with further pla nuJng L The take line should be establjshed arOlmd the reservoir and e maximum at suftieip lIt disLnnce abo high water leel to allow public access to t he entire shoreline Recreation land suitable for public use should be acquired at the same tin e land is being acquired for reservoir purposes 2 If State Highway 1U4 shonld be relocated along the north shore of the reservoir it would provide good access to the pro l recreation areas and to ra nches anrl commmlities upstream po 3 Scenic and recreation values should be considered during planning for t he location of roads borrow ureas and ot her con struction activities such as clearing and grading 4 Since the reservoir site is within t he boundary of the Vhite River Na ltiona Forest the development for recreation should be discussed with t he U S Forest Service during endy stages of planning The National Park Service should be advised concerning con3truc jon scl e lul s and 1 ods met many changes il of reserVOIr opera tlOn whwh mIght necessit ate furtllBr a IIlvestl tions a nd studies in connection with recreat ion planninO and the b salvage of historic and arc heological features 5 planning 3758 66 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIH COLO It should be understood that this preliminary recreation statement and without benefit of full informa jce llo has been prepared on short tion on reservoir operation proposed land acquisition and road re location The condusions and estimates of development costs and monetJtry ILture and should be considered benefits are only very preliminary in I in that light M H fuRVEY ing Ac Regional Director 375 J APPENDIX D I ETTER OF TRA 1ITTAL SJ COLORADO VATER CONSERVATION BOARD Denver Colo August 19 1959 Mr JOHN N SPENCER Director n 7 Regi Bu reau of Denver Federal Center Denver Colo n Recla11lati DEAl SIR Attached hereto are three publications of t his board to wit Water Requirements for Oil Shale 1960 75 prepared in July 1959 by Cameron Ct l Jones Inc consulting en ineers under contr to the State of Colorado PossIble Use of Ruedl ReservOIr for Meetmg Storage Requirements Municipal and Iudustrial Vater for the Oil Shale Industry Rifle De Beque Area in Colorado prepared by Messrs Philip P Smit h Cliffurd H Tex and Laren D Monill con sulting engineers to this board and Basalt Project prepared by Mr Philip P Smith consulting engineer to this board These btter t o DGU reports were prepared in August l These reports were prepared in their entirety under t he direction and of the Colorado Vater Conserv tion Board the offi Jsion super cial agency of t he State of Colorado pertaining to ateI matters These reports h ve the official sanction of this board and are for warded to you in connection with the supplemental report on the Fry in pan Arkansas project in Colorado now being prepared by your office In accordance wit h our preyious understanding it is requested that thereports be appended to the supplementll Fryingplln Arkan for gas project report Very truly yours FELIX L SPARKS Director LETTER OF SUBMITTAL IERON JONES INC CAJ Denver Colo July 1 1959 COLORADO V ATER CONSERVATION BOARD Denver Colo GENTLElIIEN As directed by OUl contract dated May 1 9 9 we have made a study of the wa ter req lllrements for an oil shale inclustry in weste l ll Colorado Onr report IIlcllldes e st ima tes of shale oil pro r t es t UUCtiOJl hrough the ear 19i5 flnd assoc i ted water usage for hoth 4Ll lUclpal and mc1ustrm pl rposes ExtenSIOn or these pstimat past lind was not thought J ustlfiable on aCcOIlllt of t he elllbryolllc status of Colorudo g oil 81m e mdn8try 6 mS76C1 RUED DAM ND RESERVOIR COLO From considerations of the U S petroleum supply and demand alld the unquestioned status of oil shale as onr most feasible domestic petro leum supplement we couelude that commercial shale oil production 65 From an initial production of may be in during the period 196G bout 25 000 barrels per day shale oil output should increase to 1 250 The industry should cOlltinue its e 000 barrels daily by 1975 l1l 11sion beyond t his perIod We recommend planning a water supply capability for shale oil production aud its related municipal aud industrial development cor responding to the following schedule cre feet 1G 0 1905 2 5 000 per year 40 000 00011970 250 000 1975 Alt hough we believe t hese figures to be as reliable as possible today it should be recognized t hat ne technological developments Further in shale oil product ion and utilization are to be expected more the industry could develop more rapidly if access to foreign oil were adversely affected or less rapidly if Federal restrictions on oil im ortntion are relaxed Changes in the tax status of the petroleum inc ustry also could st rongly influence the attractiveness of shale oil In view of t he several factors which could chullge basic issumpt ioIls of t his study periodic revie s of the shale wat er situation wltil the indus try development pattern is firmly established are suggested We wish t o aeknowledge the cooperation arid advice of Direct or F L Sparks of Shale Water Committee Chairman William H Nelson and membe rs of t he conunittee Ve especially wish to extend a pprecintioll to the oil company officials who gave liS the benefit of their viewpoints on various parts of the study Respect fully submitted RUSffiLL J CA fERON President 3761 CONTENTS P Letter or t ransmitt aL 67 Sulltlllllrv Water r quirernenb for oil shale H jO 7 l Estimate of pet roleum supply uud demand through 1975 71 73 Ilformat ion Oil 011 ile sh n Current world pict lre Hccent oil shale activities ill the United Ecollomic no s Sh lJc oil produetionL U Oil shnle inuust ry J ie Ph I l t Statl L Gruwth of the PhuII Phas III 75 7G 77 77 78 78 78 rescr cs ketch lrictll Hist Why 73 oil shale l h le industry f cr HfiS a dlTlopmellt pat krn q rimentaL Prot otpC Primltry e 79 79 ion pall 80 Phase Secondnry t pansioll WaIN ref uiremt llts for shale iii prodllct ion rater requiremcllt fur phase 1 WaleI rtqllin mcllt for pltase JI Wakr reqlliremell for 1 1 IlL lLer n quirelllellt for phase 1 81 85 85 86 8Li Bibliography 87 69 3762 WATER A OIL SHALE FOR REQUIRE rENTS for the Colorado Water Conservation Board Jones Inc engineers consultants Denver Colo study 1960 75 by Cameron July 1959 SU LMARY Most authorities agree that shale oil will be needed in the fairly near future to supplement domestic petroleum The principal deposits of oil shale in the United States are in estern Colorado ltnd the water used by the industry will be taken from the Colorado River and its tributaries It is of vital importanee that the development of an ade quate wltter supply system for an oil shllle industry not be neglected The purpose of this stud is to determine the water needs of a shale oil indnstry in the United States from its inception through the initial period of growth This report also attempts to estabhsh approxi mately when commercilll slutle oil production will begin and the rate llt whICh it will gro thus providing a timetable for planning adequllte water supplies for the industry e Production Schew e oil production in the United States is expected to begin dur Sha 1960 65 and increase steadily to about 1 250 000 barrels ing the period Estimates of oil demand and the sources from hich per dllY by 1975 1960 we will obtain our supply for the period 75 are given in the tabulation below u s oil and ltM dem llIIlonsot btirT1 l upplll uilily OJ Demand stlc production Dom Import9 syntl1l tJes etc Bbllleoll h 100 10 0 8 3 L 7 d 12 0 9 2 2 9 02 1970 llr 15 14 0 9 16 0 8 8 6 0 1 2 5 expansion of shale oil production should continue after 1975 ultimately reaching several million barrels per day It must not be llte implied that 1 250 000 barrels per day is the maximum production I The the industry will attain lVater e1nents lrde1q Vater requirements for shale oil production ill be small until 1970 but will r ch about 250 000 acre feet per yellr by 1975 The tltbulation below presents estimated water usage attributable to shale oil production including municipal use A recommended minimum firm water supply capability for shale through 1975 also is given n 316 72 EDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO Oilltha16 water requirements fAcrefeet per JJ I I Dj Rdllrnp jertcd n COllsllnlcd S ply I 1 1 1 n unn 1970 lClti 1 3110 1 55 0 5 jIJlJ l7 jiS l 1 2 1100 93 000 ll flllll Ill nUll ll tl4Hl I 1lJ ono 250 100 Xt gligibl Development pattem Bcetluse of t lle t ime needed to dcsi n and build t he first production fllCj jtY1 it is doubtful that a shale indllstry enn begin much earlier than predicted A delay is possible however iu the vent that petroleum E en so VB beheve the n ilable Ylt in ample supply cont inues to same development pattern of the illdllStl Y once started will be the fil stl prototype production follo l ed by moderate expallsion and The time required for this tion unntities finally significant prodmf sequencc in the nbscnce of a national emeJ gency will hp 12 to 15 years Location ill be in the It is anticipated that the first oil shale developments Colora lo alld nlong the Colo ll westel Parachute Runn Creek 3l ca of After 1070 the oil shales in rado Ri er Letw eIl Rifle and De Beqne the Piceance Creek area and in Uintah County Utah yill become im pOl btnt Some ueyelopment in these latter areas could Leg in earlier Jt is estimated that of the 1 2f 0 000 ba1Tels 1 1 day of shale oil pro duction predicted for 10i5 over DO percent WIll b in Colorado Popu lation The population serving the shale industry will be large by 19i5 The tabulation b lo gives estimates of persons directly or in lireetly relat d to the shale industry icm Shale in I llJltry POpflu z IllfjfJ Sh lct m r New I ew l loYt e5 P u g f ul l1ollSl ho populatil ILds lIJdc Jll ssbHJE rE lfJtpd 1 J 200 n r h I 1 IIG5 I lti70 f OOI IS OC O 7 10 1 3 JIOO 6n 30 f 2 300 I 1 5Qn 45 000 1975 000 15 53 500 1l3 lU1l1 Il oon induslrips oducts BYI The principal bYr roduct s of shale processing for o ltside Ol1fwnp bon wIll be umnOllI sulfur and coke Petl oc als will not be hemH impOltlmt during the first Hi or O yea rs of the industry Retort and I efinery gases ill be consumed by the indust ry for fuel and power geil e i ation After HljO the m lInJact ure of explosives sulfuric acid I iile t 1 n 1 Otllf rnnh r H ls onsllmed by tIle indristry ftnd its com Jlllllllty will begin RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR 73 COLO dv7 ltt The investment in mines ret ol ting plants refineries and pipelines 107 will exceed 0 billion This magnitude of investmeut An addi is well ithin the capabilities of the petroleum industry tional inyestment of undetermined m made in hons will be iltgudne ing service facilities aIlel other impl OVeH1enb These expenditures may exceed that for production facilities through J I ent tat of u s oiZshale DUl ng th e hu e speI t p r indlL 3try past 1J years Goyernment n 11 d haps 50 mlllwn on research land acqUIsItIOn find other actn Jtles Etfi i nt ocOv n nic pl OC plo panltDl Y to sta l ting a slutle illdustl Y esses nO are n yailable for each phase ill the production and relining of shale on Shale product call be milllufadureu which are equi 3 valent in every WflY to those from petroleum shale oil awaits a market Both U S and foreign pe Presently t role um pl uclucing areas ha n ex ess capacity This oil can be ob ta ine d at little or no additional illvestmcnt Shale oil technologically and el ollomjcally is ready fur development when domestic fields are bl jng produced at maximum practical rates nud there is ipor tenct fnllll competition by imported oil WA1El nEQUII EJ EKT S FOr SlIALE1 1 fJGO j The first tpp in this study was to attempt to establish the date when t olllmel cial shale Iii prucluction will start This was dOlle by a study of recent petroleulll supply und demand fOl eC lsts by experts in this tield Next a pat tern of indust ry growth wus worked out taking into ac cOllnt the present status of the technology the forecasted gap between domestic pl ioducont and demand for all the compa l alive economics of shale oil and petroleum the remoteness and indust riaunderdevel opment of the oil sha le fi l eas and other factors Engineering esti mates of water requirements both for l111Ulicipal and industrinl use Wel B made for each inw stment of shat oil Pl Q luct nn The result is a first appl tion of a time sehcdule for water oxima supply planning for oil shale This study will require periodic re 1e oil production begins and as new tech shn vim Once commercial nology emerges it is likely that 1 e i5ion5 will be necessary 5TIMATE OF svrPLY AND DEJIAND THROUGH PETROLElT t Fature petroleum demand uing study by oil company 1975 U d ava ilability is a subject of contin economists Government agencies and 11 13 14 25 20 48 others 5 sever l Currently estimates we published each year From a expe is in t his field cOl suln ion with the authors t study of the lnos recent estimate lnd we have deriyed a eOllsensus predictIOn of pet roleum demand and do icmest petroleum production through the JefLr 1D75 Our demand and production estimate is presented in figul e 1 by t J llnll fH 52351 In ll enthe p 60 6 c f eer to blblogrflpby t end It app D PP 81 89 376 5 74 SUPPLY PETROLEUM USA MILLIONS 0 AND DEMAND 1975 1950 20 COLO RESERVOIR AND DAM RUEDl BARRELS 20 DAY PER 10 P V TIIOL 01 00 0 1 OllTI C S L ODUCTlON U I O IU tlO 10 0 III Il O 10 O Ol 0 0 1 11 0 1 2 10 1I1 U 0 O 0 1 f 14 i1 d sf 12 2 P li 10 Ei i 41 i t 2 fH f 10 i J DOWUTIG PRODUCTION 2 2 o o 1150 Ig5a leeo FIGURE 1 lee 170 1 1 7 RUED DAM AXD RESERVOIR COLO 75 37 6 is the conclusion of the experts that petroleum dmllana in the United St 1tes will continue to increase for t lH next 15 to o years The rate of increase will be slightly less than that of the past lO yea Domestic but will reach II level of 16 million barrels per day in 1975 38 1 58 wus 9 313 000 barrels per day Pet roleum product ion in the United St n te i has showll a st eady in It is predicted that pro creuse but has not kept pace with demaud ductioll will continue to increase unt il t lIe per iod 965 to 1970 then begin a gradual decline The reason for this docline will not noces sarily be that the industry camlOt find more oil but th t the cost of a lternate source 8 such as shale oil will be less than the cost of finding new a nd cement repln pet role lUll The gap Letwoon demo nel and production sin e 1948 has been filled by imports and this practice probably can be followed through 1965 without our becoming overly depende nt on o ersea oil llowever whell product ion levels off then l to decline the deficit between egins nd demn will increase at more than twice the present production a nd rate reachingnhout 7 million banels per doty by 1075 It seems reasonable that shale oil production to supply a palt of this large deficit A pioneer pro ill begin between 1965 and 1910 duction unit to est ablish the technology on a commercial basis prob ably will be bnilt prior to this time Assuming logical ll of pattei development for the shale industry UlHl tiP ctoo by war 01 other emer 1 250 QOO barrels per ch reu about gencies slUlle oil production should day by 1975 petroleum demand in INFOfillf TION ON Oil SIL LE Oil shale re8e ve Shale oil has long boon looked npon in the United 1les St l1d else where as the log ical supplement to petroleulIl Oil sbale reserves a re large and idely distnbuted The shale oil potential of t he United States exceeds the combined petroleum reserves of the Middle East and Y6nezuela and is mllny t imes greater t han the most optimistic pre diction of te petroleum discoveries in the United States Vith ultim out question shale oil when needed can contribute significantly to our ly Skdferolje euergy sup Svenska rol1ghly the Swedish shale oil company S hl oil reserves in shale 18 Table 1 gives country in which oil shale is known to occur A B est imated the world their estimates by s 76 DAM RUEDI 3767 TABLE 1 AND RESERVOIR COLO World shale oil reserves IMilliollS 011 Oil content ODtent Country Country Mf trlc Barrels Melri tOilS Austral l II B I j l1 C I dTnsm l O HTil7iL lll ni9 IS lXII SIl lll 1 h un 30 Bulgnrin HUrrlH llnd Th IJlnll J C L 2 flO t llj L u 41111 I Xl CI1in F n l 11 1 l stonm Frf m Ot rlll Ilft r Sourc I arxl lnr SHnskil n 200 J IJ OI l 200 l Ii l yj 2 400 IIJ 3tllJ 1 5 11I WO lud ignsl M 1 lI1rhuria H I l sj 3H 2tX u s Bnrr JllS roll 0 1 0011 ld n South Afrie Sr n 1 11 J i 6 9 1 40 L n 11 lTnitl d ush yll 20rJ 2 80fl 618 31 f 1 400 1 2 000 l 200 LOO 411I u 1 tlS 90 000 i 4110 Tum 2 I 34 I II I Il s r cs uhuut roljc A B Skilf The estimates by S enska Skifferolje are icovnseErynt since v yer of the hnye been many larger deposits inadequately sUlTeyed As For more information becomes 1l niIable the e rese es will increase es nlone now arc estimated at 1 5 trillion bnrrels instnnce U S reser or about 200 billion metric tons lH It seems within reason that the world s recoYl rable shale oil reser es may iulnmtetly pl oe to be in excess of 500 billion metric tons or O er 4 trillion lmrrels For comparison the table beJow gives recent petroleum l e est i eser mates for the United States and for the world as a hole TARLE PctrolCflm IHilLioll rcser ve estimates or barrels WorlLl Vnltf d s Statt ProvE url servl s Ithnn le flllure pro Source i 19S0ln 1uctl Oil and Oas Journal JO 2 u 38 CllasMluh l ttan Bunk Ill Wallace Prall 2 5 250 41 Hi torical sketch Throughout the world shale oil has been produced when petroleulll has been scarce or expensive In fact shale oil predntes the discovery of petroleum and shale industries have operated in Europe for more than 100 years For the past 50 years or so owing to t he abundance of low cost petroleum shale oil has been relatively unimportant except in speeiaI circumstances Howeser during Vol Id Val II shale oil supplied critically needed fuels for Japan Sweden Australia and other coun tries cut ofl from their normal source of oil Shale oil has ne er been of great import ance in the United Stat es despit p our large reserves Small quantities of oil were distilled from cannel coal and oil shale in the Appalachian region early in the history of our country but shale oil has never been produee l commercially from our western shales 3768 Ourrent world cI DA RUEDI A D RESERVOIR COLO 77 picture Swetlen now is The oil shale industries of the orld lire resurgent SO its of shale oil output production percent Oil shale is expanding the principal source of Sweden s sulfur and ammonia as well as its only domestic source of oil Spain has a new oil shale operation geared principally to the pro duction of luLricants Russia reportedly is expandlllg shale oil and shale gas out put in satellite Estonia A new 10 OllO barrel per day plant has been announced at Kocht la Jarwe and Russian technical journals for several years haye been reporting on research in the field of oil shale For abo1lt 10 years Brazil has conduded research and development work lellding toward utilization of its extensive oil shale resources A large commercial operatiun within the llext few year seems likely Elsewhere new oil shale projects ha ve been annowlced or investiga tions are in prog l ess Thailund Australia Belgian Congo Yugo slavia almost e el ywhere that oil shale is known to exist Recent oil shale actt The e8 iti in the United States of interest in oil hHle in the United States beO an during Vorld Val II and has cont inueu without int errupt ion Ac tiitiE s mainly have ueen researeh and development on improved mining retorting and refining methods HHd in the acquisition of oil ater filings also have been mnde by several com shal e properties eUl rent ern pUBles With the exception of the naval oil shale reserves near Rifle the accessible oil shale lands are privately owned A ma jority of eral are increasing the major oil companies have shale huluings Se their reserves and some already may be measured in the billions of most barrel During the past 15 years t he Federal Government private emu pauies and individuals have spent about 50 million on oil shale rlol e than half of these expenditures were by private companies llnd incli iduals Researl2h by ooth Goyernment and indust ry on new methods of shale oil production and utilization has obtained outstand results The technology is The shale first must be mined straightforlrd l then mbject to II heatin process retorting to distill from it II ed crude oil and finallY the oil must be refined to usable Jlroducts A low cost mining met hod adapted to certain fa vornble cha racteris tics of the Colorado oil shale deposits has been eloped and demon de strated in two large scnle experimental mines one opera ted privately A large mining concern is conducting additional experimental work on the method Two outsta nding new retorting processes ha ve been demonstrated on a pilot plant scale OJle I ernmenfs research pro Go esulting from the gram the other priyately finance 1 The latter process is in an ad vanced stage of dc elopment having been successfully operated at a capacity llPproaching t hat of a commercial sized retort 1 000 tons Ing per doy refining resea reh has been aided grelltly by new processes develo ed to refine high sulfur crude oils Refining methods are com mercia ly available to convert crude shale oil to gasoline jet fuel Shale oil I I I 3769 78 RUED DAM AND RESERVOIR diesel and other fuels equivalent to the manufactured from petroleum COLO highest quality products E cOrlOmiC8 Many stateme uts have been made regarding the competitive position All are based on of shale oil products when p oduced commercially ant data ed from Smce shale estimates of cost usually pllot p der m certa oil is not produced commercially in this country there is a its economic attractiveness of int in uncertrr y appraising degree Careful engineering stndies of the large scale application of the ne methods de e oped for oil shale utilization indicate that shale oil cost no more and perhaps less than new domestic petroleum ma It is estimated thnt crude shale oil could be produced I1nd sold profit bly for 11 wellhel1d price of no more than 2 50 per bl1rrel By com parison the posted prices of Rocky Mountain area crude oils range from 1 81 to 3 10 barrel Quality and location determines the per level for a specIfic crude oil The investment for shale oil production facilities of significant out put is sizable A 25 000 barrel per day plant may cost from 30 mil lion to 50 million depending on location retorting process se ect d In addi find the degree of refining conducted at the productIOn sit e tion pipelines must be provided to mo e the oil either to existing trunk pipelmes or to a market area Vhile the minimum investment for economical production cost is high the unit investment seems reasonable compared with current ex loration and development costs for petroleum One estimator 4 places the investment in new nd replacement pet ro eum produc tive capacity in the United States between 15 and 1960 at 7 500 per 19 daily barrel Shale oil capacity certainly is less tha n this figure price no commercial shale oil production Since the lifting of World War II restrictions there has been no shortage of petroleum products for the American consumer Until 1948 the Umted States produced more oil than it conslUned and was a net exporter of petroleum and petroleum products As foreig n crude oil became available in quantity at low cost we haye gradually increased imports lmtil on balance we are a net importer to the extent of 10 to 20 percent of our petroleum demand Shale oil is not being produced commercially because there is no nmrket for additional 011 supplies The Nation Petroleum COlmcil est imates that we now could incren Re petroleum production from preC ent sources by at least 2 million barrels per day were there a market ThlS production is available with little additional investment but it cannot compete with foreign imports 9wing to shale oil s large inItial investment and t he necessity to utIlize llew technology production on a commereinl basis wiJI begin ldevoped only when presently petroleum product capacity is being used to he ma xlIllum practIcal extent and there 1 protection from ompetltlOn c by Imported oil Why G I owth 10 I I Y liteI of th e shfde j m1w Vhile the water requirements for the expnllsion of the indust ry a fter HI75 nre not eOllsidered in this report it should not he implied that growt h will stop at this point 10 I I 3770 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO 79 There are llmple resel es of oil shale for several times the produc In a study for the Corps of tion mte of 1 250 000 barrels per day n figure of 5 H50 OOO Dll vis cite 17 Bacon Fordl Engineers baJ le reserves l e Js pel day as n possible production rate based on nn ilab in Colorado alone This level could be mn int lined for a ITIIllUnum of 40 years tes rn of prodnction would of course extend the Smaller life of the deposit once There seems no jJiihokecl t hat the demand for shale 011 established will diminish St uclents of onr economy are unanimous in the belief that U S eneJ gy needs including liquid fuels will con t inue to Atomic energy is not a grow for the foreseeable future It seems reasonable to ex itor for most uses of compet petroleum pect that shale oil production will cont inue to increase us domestic declines unt il some ec onomic or physic allimita trolemn pe production tel uate tion is reached the Answering availability of an nde suppJy we foresee not hing to pre ent slwle oil proouction re nching several million barrels per da y OIL SHALE INDUSTRY DE ELOl MENT PATlERN It is ed that t he development of an oil shale industry will pro belie d in fonr distinct phases This pattern probably will be followed regardless of when the industry stnrts phases a re as follo s The e Phase I Experimental Phase II Prototype Phase III Primary Expansion Phase IV SemndalJ Expansion Experimental The experiment al phase st nrted about 15 years ago ilnd is no in its final stages During this period satisfactory methcxls for each Some step in the production of shale fuels ha e been developed additionn l experim ental work is being done now but the technology essentiaJly is ma rking time Little aduit iunal experimentation is nec essary before building a prototype commercial plant Phase I might he tenned the preprototype phase which will con ial shale oil prodnet ion tinue until the need for beginning commel Phase I becomes evident to oil company management e ff Prototype Pllll The prototype phase invoh es building the first eOlllmel ewl scale This might also be termed the pioneer e plant or plants pha lie Since the technology to be used is many significant improve ments nl e to he expected as it result of this first experience at fnB scale product ion This nlso is t he period of maximulll tedlllologica l ris k The object ive of the prototype phas it not to pro luce lal g e qnantit ies of oil but to firmly establish the technology anel ocononiics of shale fuels production before makin t he large invest ment required for shale oil t o contribute nifieUlltIy toour oil Eiupply sig To kee p the inyestment for phase II to a minimwn the pl oduct of the firstplant s will be marketed insofar as possible by existing tl nnsportatlOll systems Unfoli Ulhltely the loeal m tl ket l UHlot absorb t he output of even the snnest Studies prototype plant ha ve shown that 2 000 barrels per day of sbale oil can he fairly 80377 i RUED DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO omically transported to market in California by n y of COlUleC Othe r crude OlIYlpehne sy tel lS tiol1S to all existing pipeline 7 in t he area also could be llsed to transport shale 011 to refinerIes 111 These existing pipelines now con Colorado Utah and Vvoming tUlCI at mnximmll en trolel m pe vey tlbout ID OOO harrels per by of reasonn hle that It seems 0 ll re s b can moye 30010 pel day pacity at le st 25 000 barrels pel day of cmTying capacity can be allocated to sha Ie oil when the time a rrives ill not include shale oil s It is thouOht that the phase II pl tnt refinin O faeUit ies except for a IHerUlS of reducing t he pour point and The proc of t he crude oil to meet pipeline specificntions inl use s b which shale oil will be l efinec1 already H e in eonHnel and need nO demonstratiun such as is the case for mining and retort ing Furthermore the invest ment for refining facilitIes is la rge It is probable that the ulti about e unl to that for oil productiou rnate refining of t he product uf phase II vill be a t existing refineries in t he n 1 a rket 1 rea ill be Other supporting facilities of the p olotype plant s also kept to n minimum Electric power gellemtion using byproduct gnses ill jJJ not be a part of the first plant 01 plants Instead elect l icity be purchased fl mn pnulie utilit ies se l villg the area The existing lOCid lahor supply will be utilized to the maximum ex tentIt is estimated that ualifie d pe rsonnel to the extent of about one half of the staff can he employerllocally Supervisory personnel techTlicinn and certain sJi iIlel uperators ftncl craftsmen will need to be brought in uut essent ially an elm he housed in the towns and com mllnities between Glenwood Springs and Grantl Junction In SlIII1J11 located in the Grand ry phase II tIle prototype plant s ll Colorado estel ill produce alJOut 25 000 Valley Dc Be ue al e l of barrels pe 1 day of ude shale oil e Ve e xpe ct this lopment to de oecur between 060 and 1 H The crude oil will be moyed throllgh ftreas Local existing pipeline systems to refineries in logical mJ1rket labor snpply can be used for a large percentage of the staff Existing cOlllnlUnities and supporting facilities will meet the needs of the pro ecop viscosity totype phase Plw wlll PriTl fll ye cpa nsion After sufficient operat ion of the prototype mining and retorting units to establish the soundness of the methods and to g about the brin incertH to result shale oil production can be imprm emellts which are expanrlecl with eonfidence fLnd at minimum cost Again transporta tion of the oil to market will be the controlJing factor The size of the is likely to he the capneity of prima ry expnnsion of the industr snul llest econom ic shale oil pipeline to the Pacific Coast which we estimate will he ahont 150 000 barrels per day Although larger quan tities uf oil may be pipelined at fL lower cost per barrel it is unlikely that a larger line would be laid nt this stage of development Several mines retorting pln Jlts and one or more refineries will be re u lrecl for phase III The principal product will he a high quality refined nil shale y partwll needing minimum additioIlal refining The irentogrt makes it availahility f low cJst bypl orlllct fuel gas from more economlc l to reline the shale oil at the site of production rather than a t ex ist ing l etlneries in t he rn uket area I 3772 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO 81 j OOO barrels per day is a sig The expansion of prodlldioIl to effort nitica nt undertaking ill terms of capital in es I l nt and InIH IfIJl 111 cost at Production refilling and trnllsportutiull facllItl s a oll least ll I lousing alll eomnmmty 7 0 williol f Jht H S fo alt additional population nf approximately j f OOO perSt l WIll be reqUIred the Most if not tll of the phase III dc lopmellt wIll occur along Colorado HiveI uctween Rifle and De Beque and III the Parachuteland ooLl Springs to Roa n Creek areaS The t UJ1 lllunitics from Glell Wth Gra nd Junction will share in the population gl o The byprouucts of shale oil productiun n nd refining are fuel gns s e retort gases nll ammonia sulfur l nd coke The low l eat ln g val be used to generate eledl icity and supply other process el1eJ g reqUIre ments l aled for local consumptlOll III the Some electricity may be gCl1 will COIIIIlllll1ities There be no excess energy from retort surroundillg gtlsforoutside inclust rinluse Excess gases will be used as n domest ic fuel for the local feliller cummunities1 supplemellted by natural gas from nearby fields By l l tons per In cnn be marketed in the ROf ky Jl oduct ammonia QfIO 3 1 olllLtain area as a fcrtiljzer Tlte roke nIlcl sulfur will have no local 11Jal ket and must be shipped outside the fll en The m age of pet l ol P II III products in the nrea will grow in proportion to population and imlustrial uses of fuels pal ticulnrly diesel will IIowen r the locallllal ket still ill 1 0 small com increase greatly pn re l with production probably les than 10 percent The prillcipnl supplies consumed in shale oil pl odnction a nd re als re drIll hits explosives lubricants water trea ting fining a chemi lcatystsl 1111 1 miscellaneous lTlaintenance materials Essentially all sneh materinJ during phase III will he TlWTlUfactlll ed outside the area Construction mnterinJs sueh as steel cerl1ent 111lnhr 1 a nd other manu fadm eel items LllOugh requil t d ill quallt it y a lso will largely be shippei in III summary during pllllse III the production of shale oil will in The product will be a par Cl e lse to about l I UtlO harrels per day tially relined oil of exceptional quality Most of the oil will be mar keted 011 the Pacific Coast through a single pipeline constructed spe l ll for shale oil citlc The development of phase III shonld begin a itcr II year or two of plant operatio111 and be completed within G years or about prot ot ype l07n The industrial development iJ1 be limitecl to shale oil production refining and t ransportation facilities and essential supporting ut il ities Neither manufacturing pbnts ntilizing bvproducts of shale nor industry producing supplies for the shale mlnes and plants are foreseen during this period A populntion increase of 40 000 to 45 000 oyer phase 11 seems Iike IVl with the majority ljying in existing communities from GlenVlood Springs to Grand Junction Phase l Secondary eitpanldon growth of the shale industry follo ing phase III should be mpid The technology will be firmly e r hlishe d The emancl for petroleum fuels is expected to be such that rate of growth of shale oil The 773 8 RUEDI production pand DAM will be limited AND ouly by RESERVOIR the ability COLO of the iuclustry to ex The year period followiug phase III should see an increase f shale oil production to about 1 4 rnz llOn barl e s per day TJlIS IS thought to be the mllximum rate at which t he industr can grow with The effect of some natIOnal emergency normal economic incentives which might Rccelera te growth is not considered The phase IV expa llsion will require an invest ment in the range of 5 billion not incluclingcornmurUty facilities snppol t ing industry and ill other improvements An additional populatiou of about 300 000 be needed 43 The Chase Manhattan llk R has estimated that petroleum industry expeuditures for exploration and production in the United The investment States for the period 1D61 G5 will be 2i 5 billion of 5 billion during a 5 year period for shale oil production facilities does not seem unreasonable The Parachnte Roan Creek area and the main stem of the Colorado River between Rifle and De Beque ill continue to be the center of activities and most of the production during pha se IV will be from shale outcrops along t he river and tributary streamsj however pro uuct iol1 of nil f1 lm the deep shales in the Piceance Creek area to the north and from the shales in northeastern Uta h should begin Total production from these new ueas may be 250 000 barrels per day The larl est market for shale oil will continue to be the Pacific oast Petroleunl demand in the five States comprising the west coast area is growing more Jmn the count ry ns a whole and nomestoic rapidly t produdion already IS in decline By 19i5 demand may reach 3 mil lion barrels per day 21 Tn 1958 California production the only west coast State with significant oil reserves was less than 1 million barrels per day 38 The Pacific Coast oil deficit uo 3i5 OOO barrels per day 38 is supplied by oversea imports and oil pipelined from Canada and the fOll lt 1in area Rocky 1 By 1975 when 2 million barrels per day of outsi h supply ill be required it seems likely t a shale oil market lmt i00 000 will barrels exist exceeclinp per day The othe r major market for shale oil from phase IV probably will be in the Middle 1Vest Petroleum and petroleum products now come to this area largely by pipeline from Texas Oklahoma the Rocky Jloulltllin area and Canada Production in the area is small com pared with demand The output of a 1 200 mile 500 000 barrel pel day shale oil pipeline to the Chicago area should be easily absorbed 10 or 15 years from no Local demand for shale oil products will have iucreased several fold on account of the increase in population and the level of industrial activity This demand will be in the rauge of 50 0011 barrels per day Ve ant icipate significant changes in the technology as t conse The methods used for phase 1 1 1 0 quenee of phases II an l III duct iOll will require less invest ment per unit of production will make l use of the l ltW material bette giving higher yields of superior prod llets and most likely will ut ilize the lower grade shales not now con sidered economical Ho ever the probability of using in situ com bustion atomic explOSIons or some other revohltionm y method during r t his period seems remote I I 377 RUED DA f AND RESER OIR COLO 83 Ve believe that refining technology and econ mic conditions will IV the phlS improve so that ill the new refineries huilt during crude shale oil will be hydrogenated directly rathcr t1mn belllg coked This step will result in a signi ficant increase before hydrogenation coke ns a in the yield of liquid produ ct llld of course will ehn l1ln will still t he It also fmther reduce avallablllty of by byproduct produeL gases from retorting aud refining It is probable that a sup plementary energy source snch as coal or na tural gas will be Hsed to supply pal t f the energy requirements of the shale oil plants The principal byprodut of shale oil production mrl re fin llg ts Coke prnductlOll IV ill be ammonia and sulfur dllrin pllllse r probably will ha e increased slightly o cI the le el of phase III hut it is douhtful that refinery guses ill be all important product for outside lIse It has been sug ested tllat sltrde oil production would proyide raw a hile se eJ ul shale oil materials for petl ochemicals industry frflct ions in part icular t he lighter hydrocarhons from hydrogena t ion refining are suitable petrochemical raw materials it is douht ful that they will be used as such in First petro ll Colorado westel leum consumefl as petrochemicals amounts to only about 2 percent of the petroleum demand and raw materials from current SOllree9 seem adequate for the foreseeable future Second western Colo rado is fflr from chemical markets and is llflndicupped hy high 1 raw material freight rates If shale oil is used as a petroehemic it is likely to Le converted to chemical products at pipeline terminals in the mai ket area The use of oil shale directly as a chemicnl raw materia is distinct possibilit y in t he future but the technology to deriye valu able chemicals from shale has lot yet been fully developed The lack of readily usable prOl e sses and plentiful raw l1laterials from other sources makes it doubtful that oil shale will be uSNl for chemicals production to an apprecinble extent during the next 1 veals The growth of shclle oil production to t he proportions en isioned IV will hring with it some related industry TonnlLge of explosives will be required Ammonium nitrate which ean be manufactured from byproduct ammonia seems likely to be the principal shale blasting agent As much as 500 tons per day ill he eonsumed for shale mining alone This lmOllllt will support a large sized ammonium nitrate plant Sulfuric acid for general industrial use may lllso be lllilllufaetul ed from byproduct sulfur Cement is perhnps the lnrgest tonnage manufactured material The usnge of eelIlent ef uired by shale indust ry and its community 11 the a rea will be sufficient for a size Ra w ma of economic phmt te ials are available Spent 17hale may be used flS UIl ingredient Vater treatment and the Qtfilding industry will greatly increase the demancl for lime in the l en and this inclnstrv should expand considprnblv Iany sn l l 1I sen ice allf l lalil f lctl1ring operat ions will he eOIl dueted to erve t lJ blllJOn mclllst IY Illd tLtlf 41 OOO Or 1Il0l e population in the il rea There will be more ne v businesses of this in plwse quantHies t 3 84 type tImn Vel 7UEDI were little t he DAl1 dm supportinfT shale AND elopme nt RESERVOIR to occ ur in COLO n mo e populated industry of the kll1d reqllll ed 110W nrea eXIsts oil T I111ll l1rize S luring phase IV from 1070 This is millio1 barrels per day to In75 will incI ense to about 1 less than 8 percent of a nticipated U S petroleulll demand in 1D75 The product principally hydrogenated slmle 011 free of con ta nant mi s and equlvI11ent to t he h ghes qI wl ty crude petrole um will be transported by large l i1pacIty Plpehrws to markets 011 the The gasoline and ot her fuel Vest Pneifie Coast Iud in t he Iiddll will ue sen ed from iL also locnl C l 0 1 I 1 111l l i t y t he of production requirements cOIuplete sh de oil refinery ill the area f lJIllIon In addition to shale oil facilities cost ing an estImated Ex will begin during this period indust ry a moderate supporting plosi es sulfuric acir11 lime lIH1 JlIellt are 111 St l k l to he manll lIl amI serVIce f lcllltIes of lesFcr Numerolls malluffldm factul ed besh uted will also magnitude Jzerl utl It is ulilikely that OJ shale byproducts will be locally pt for explosi es sulfl1rit acid and possibly cement ma Tlufa dure exce 00 ill addition to the phase III de A population of lIearl the l population for shn le und reR foreseen tota is velopment about 340 ono Rio Blanco County and lJilllalt luted indust ries COlUlty Utah will share this population grow th T making Y TER REQDIHE IEXJS HI SHALE OIL l PH TCTWN t1on of the cr llle shnle 011 reqn l f S yery litHe water produc umption of water for mining ehietiy is for hilling IJlnstholes COll The and JS ft dll t palliat ive Rf torting uses only bearing coolant water wd 1 sma II all10unt of stel1m for heating a nd cleaning purposes ProC es es have heen dcyclopl d which no HOt require wilter fo eool Certain Ellropenll processes COIl illg find concle nsat ioll of the oil smile stram lirrctly in t he retort hut this type proce i Hot now uneler cOllsiderat j lrt for Colorado shale Persollllel of COllrse re qnire dl inking allf1 anitnl Y wntf l Overall water l Pqllil elllp llt for crude oil pl odnet ioll hotlt mining and retorting are less than 10 lich a small amouut cnn he reused 01 gallons pm barrel If oil of rct llrllE c1 to the stream Shale oil refining requires ely large quantities of water hath rdati fiS a process coolnnt find for the Since steam generat ion of st eam is cOllsllm d in the lllnnufact ure of h vdl ogcn wlIel e the refining proc esses use hydrogen as 1 rengent t his pnrt jellJar rcquirr ment js larger t han in C J1 entional refineries e pumps Stenm abo is used to dri and compressol s l ef llirell1ent ter wn for re n ning are large eyen when Cooling changing heat bet we n hot outgoing and cool incoming process streams In t he refinlllg process some of the oil fractions are heated es to elevated tp mpel at nl sm eraJ t imes and the products must he con densed and or coolecl hetween process steps as wt ll as when refining Vater usually is the most economical coolnnt for has been cOlllpleted this pllt pOS wnter may be used once or rec irculated On a once through inor Coo atcr would be ret urned to the stream essentia lly basis m t of the without loss but at a higher temperature A recjrculat ion system uses 3776 RUEDI type of evapomtive returned to the stream some IS DAM AND cooling RESERVOIR COLO to reeool the water and very 85 little nce thruugh usage requires rt large year round water supply and if the st ream contains considerable impurities the expense of treat jug may be significant For a recirculating cooling water syst em only makeup water is required usually no more tlHLn 10 percent of the quantity needed 011 a once through basis e of seasonal fluctuations in streamflow and the probability Becau of ha ing to che mically treat the water to make it usa hIe we hu e assumed the use of recirculating cooling water systems for our esti mate of water requirements Electric pan erpIn nts are another significant consumer of vater IIere again cooling and condensation is the largest requirement For lyerage steam electric plants using recirculnted cooling water 7 pounds of water are l OnSlll11eti for eaeh kilowlltt hour of electricity generntecl The total water requirement for shale oil production and refining indllding power genenttion may vary from 50 to 100 g allons electrit Perha ps 10 percent per barrel depending on the retining process used of t his water would be returned to the stream Shale related intlllst l Y which will not become important unt il the beginning of phase IV the secondary expansion of shale oil produc tion will require additional quantities of water For instance a 500 ton per clay ammonium nit rate ph nt will require 6 million gallons of lt er per day Y It is impossible to determine water lIsage by the many small support ing plants Lut it is certain that requirements will be significant I I l A large llsage of wu ter att ributable t o n shale industry will be in the homes and cit ies of the workers and supporting personnel The per capita llsage of water in western eOllullunities is higher than in areas where lawn irrjgation is not practiced The larger western The factor Colorado towns use up to 480 gallons per day per person for Grand Junction is now 2 J7 A recent surve y of large western cities b y Langbein showed most used grenter t han 300 gallons per day A wate r use factoI of 300 g allons per person per day per capita is asslImed in this report On the u erage about two thirds of this water should return to the stream Vater eIJ1lil I ement for pha The usage of wate r for shale during the experimental phase before any commercial procll1ction begins ltrl S been varia ble but insignifieant There is no reason to bclie e that future experimental work if any will require water supplies additional to those already developed Iowe er since prototype production is expected to start between 1960 and IOGG a water supply capability of at least 2 500 acre feet per year if not already in existence is suggested starting in 1960 V atel lJllil ement for phase J1 production of 25 000 barrels of shale oil daily during the proto type phase is estimated to require 1 300 acre feet of water per year of which 550 acre feet would he returned Municipal water for the Ilenv populat ion is included Ta bles 3 and 4 sUllll1111l ize SllppOl ting The data for this estimate 3777 RUEDI 8j DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO It shoul l be uoted that over half the persolluel for phase II pl es The relatively small Hew population is ex l nth reside in t he area therefore j is unlj k ly that c mmulIities pd to iY8 in existi lg pect be need to WIll ateI developed for munICIpal use addit ioual supphes thi s phase Indllstrml usage for phase II also IS sma ll but whether or not n firm a ailablc depends on who builds the plant sj vear rouud supplv is It is possible that water llsage by the prototype and t heir loeatio i plant s could be larger than estimated if the oil is more highly As lUnch as 1 750 refined nt the site of product ioll than assumed a oduction rate of 25 000 for would be feet acre p required pel year barrels per day if a hydrogenated coke dIstIllate were the product It would seem prudent to assume t hIS larger wfLter usage For planning water supplies it is suggested tha a factor of 2 0 be s t han used to insure an ample margm for larger produc lOTI quantlt le t ateI supply capability for phase II On this basis the assumed should be 5 000 acre feet per year during Water requ fol phCM t eme III The production of 150 000 harrels per day of partially refined shale oil is estimated to require 27 000 wre feet of water per Yellr for munic ipal aud industrial use of which 11 000 acre feet would be returned to Tables 3 and 4 give supporting data These figures are the strealll inclusive of any w ter diverted for use during phase II ill be refined in Since a basic assumption is that all the shale oil the area the estimate of water use probably is maximum for this oil production quantity For planning ateI supplies it is suggested that a factor of 1 5 be used to cover errors in estimation and larger production qmwtities than assmned Applying a factor of 1 5 the water supply capability for phase III should be 40 000 acre feet per year Water requirement for phOlJe IV From tables 3 and 4 it may he seen that estimated water use for the production of 11250 000 barrels of refined shale oil per day is 252 000 acre feet of hlch 9 000 acre feet would be returned These figures are for industrial and municipal use for both shale oil produet ion and shale related industry e of that estimated for pre Usage is inclusi vious phases of development All shale oil is assumed to be refined in the area thus water use should be maximum for the oil quantity assmned For planuing water supplies we suggest taking the water usage estimated without application of a factor to account for errors The period iu question is sufficiently far in advance to allow reappraisal when the actual pattern of development becomes evident Our cur rent recommendation for a water supply capability for oil shale devel opment for the period 1970 to 1975 is 250 000 acre feet per year 3778 RUEDI TA BLE 3 DAM Summ arY oj watCT RESER AND dat UlW t OIR 87 COLO for commercial shale oil dcrclolJlllcnt FigU1l srOllDded Primary flp Prolot JfjlJ tj5 I 011 productioll Shal qulr m nts ihllleoil production RDd Diverted CIJm lmed Shllle d jndll rrlat try b Hrt l ter r Dj Tt r dJY pt 25 0Ilu peryc T J 50 arre fl f t n 5 000 750 u liS DUO 40 000 700 2 000 16 00Q 252 rjOQ 159 000 All All 80 1 300 00 COllnty 15 000 i QoU 250 do COllsumed 12 8 250 000 n p Ulntah County Utah Recommelldcd wBtcr suppl cupab11lt I 10 000 uo do m Rio BllWco County 000 127 000 114 000 1l OW 1ndustria i Di erted Location Garfield Mesa 12 000 ml Total municipal and 54 do do por1ll1Mlon Diverted Consumed 1 0 7 11 OO loO dO L ert 1unlcipfl j1all lon l finlo i Consumed oew lry revnd pall iofl jij5 l 70 ncrc r per e 5 000 year 40 000 PerCl Dt TABLE 4 Summary 01 population for commercial oil iale 8 det clopmellt Flgurl rounded l Prlmar Prototype lY6IH Shale oll production PermJ neut sh3 personnel ProductIon barreL l cr dll 5 000 1 e l l o t n 1 e re populatlon Locatioll Oarileld Mes RIo Blanro County Uintah COUllt J County n Utah JansloD eX 19711 75 1 001 159 900 r 900 1 00 900 1140U struction2 Con DtherinllustrlrlL l mlJ o ed Tot SecoDdl f Y elJlan lfm 19G5 j0 g i l 2 300 45 UI O 2 300 4 I OUI 1 produrtioll workerll from eli linl local populatiOn local or temporarr Prototype conSlructlon pNsonll O 000 I 50 000 JOO I 1 nU iJ 13 a40 II 0U 000 5fI0 000 000 75 000 40 OUO 25 000 I 00 2 ODe half con tructlon per perlJlanenl i Cllkulll ted rudes and rOre lons nut 1Ircct y cmplo ed In the shale industry r rrsonne addet tocomlllllllJty t Calrul 1 rd MI 2 mpIO I d personnel JJH household I Clllcu1aled II S a 1 persons lf howehold Jl l onnf 1 as 90 ror prrent sions pan 1 shull BIBLIOGRAPHY 1 Petroleum Instit ute Report of the Committee on Petroleum Re Washington D C Anderson C G Petroleum and Nntl1rnl Gus in the United States Rela tion of economic and technologi tr ls n Paper presented belore W orld 8n AmeriC serves 2 POlrer Conference Montrenl 3 4 Septpmber 1958 Barnett Harold J 1065 Bureau of Energy Uses anti Supplies 1939 1947 Mines Information Circular No 7582 U S Department of the Interior October 1950 Burke H c Jr Statement on Bebalf of E so Standard Oil Company Pre entation before the U S Tariff Commission on the subject of oil imports 1 51 5 Cadle A personal communication SllPply nnd demand through 1975 Apr 17 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West 0 of tlH Coutint ut ll Dh idl Bulletin I o ut face Vater Sel ie Colorado Water Cclllsenation Board In Ot 31 1 Hill K E Wing er Juhn G Future Growth of the Vest Coast PetroleuDl JnuUMI ll d before the f ipring Meet iug of the API Did Paller prcs t l of PI ouuctioll l adtic l t District Ctl Los Angeles Calif May 16 I 22 COfJuerPll LId Hill K E Ilnmrnel H D Futnre Growth flf the World Winger John G I e tl olelllll Industr v Paper 1lre ented hefore the Americnn Petroleum I I ilnte uf Product ion Rocky MolllJtain Distl id 5 Casper yo Lldl 23 24 25 IIlI et al Thcir Present and FutUre Hlay W M Utilizntion Fucls Petroleum Processing November t14 A Pr J L HOIJkillS G R t tilln of Oil Discorery 135 W49 Journal of Petro leum Technology June 150 Hubbert 11 K TedJllit ples 0f rrediction With Applicatioll to the Petro l ublil uti m 204 leum Iudu try Shell eloJluwnt C l De Exploration IlJHI 26 27 28 29 30 31 Apr tifJn Prndu Resf arcb ision Di HOllston TH Murch I9 O Irltlepp udent Petroleum Associntioll of Alllerica Fucts uud Furecasts for the Independent Oil PrOducer March H an Independent Pet rolenul Association 01 Americn Energy SUprelllRQY industrial manifestt1 A ri1IU jn IntE rstnte Oil Oompact sivn Oil for Today and CclmrlJil fo Tcwwrrow 3 Oklabuma City Okla 10 Kemp L C Jr et a1 Subcommit tee llevort to l atiol Petroleum CUlIllcil s ll All lmit tee m Synthetic Liquid F uels ProtlUdirrll Xutional lst l Petro leum Council Washinngtoll D C lOG lcC llum L F He ort of the Natiunat Petrolenill Cuuncil Committee on PetrnleUlll Producti e 5 the National Petroleum 5 I l lcity Cn Iny l Coun il D C Wnshingt lll Report of the Nntionnl Petroleum Council Committee on Pl troleum Pr c ll ti e 1J l IP7i3 C lllncity thl I ntjoual y 28 Washington D C Petroleulll CUllncil 3780 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 It 1 RUEDl McCollum DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO 89 L F ational Petroleum Coun iI Committee on Report of the X PetmleU1l1 Prodtlcti e Capacity shington Wu Oct 3 1057 D C the Na tional Petroleulll Council Miller E P et a1 Comparison of Natioual Petroleum Council n reau ot Mines and Koppers Co Inc Proposals tor an Industry Scale Oil Shale Project intrabureau report Oil Shule Engineering Branch Rifle Colo November H153 National Petroleum Council Petroleum e Capacity report of the Producti committee 011 lil and gas availability Jan 29 1052 The Future SUI ly of Oil aud Gas Netschert Bruce C publisbed tor Resollrces for the Future Inc by Johns Ho pkins Press Baltimore 1958 Oil nnd nus JouI nol What Is u s Producth e Cavacity t May 19 1058 What Mandatory Countrols Mean Mar 16 1959 Review nnd Forecast Section Jan 26 1959 Resourcffi for Freedow Volume III The Outlook for Energy Paley W S Sources a report to the President by the President i laterials Policy Uomrnission June 1952 Re90urces for Freedom Voluwe IV The Promise Of Technology a report to the President of the United States by the President s MaterialB i y O mmission June Po 19 2 Panel on the Impact of Peaceful UReg of Atomic Energy Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy to tbe Joint Committee on Atomic Energy 84th Oong 2d Bess 01 2 U S Government Printing Office Washington January 19 6 Petroleum Week Centennial 1 J a8t May 1 Fore Future Growth and Fillandl1l Requirements of the Pogue J E Hill K E World Petroleum Industry Paper presented before the AlME Petro leum Branch Feb n 1950 Prien C B Water Oil Shale Industry Requirement for a s Colomd Denver Ueseareh n titute Denver Colt j4 19 Apr In for Resources th Future Inc Annual Hep rt for Year ending Sept 30 lJ8 I December 38 19 Rnbt l A C LIquid Fuels from Oil Shale A Critical Review Paper entell bef the ontlJ est meeting uf the Petntleum Branch of the pre AIME Dollas Tex J te given flCeprint no d Schroeder W C Economic silJil ies Pus or Liquid Fuels From Oil Sllule and Coul in the United States ente1 hefore the First Energy Paper pre ourees C e Dem er 0010 OdlJher 1955 lte unfereu1 TeitelbauIlI P K i uc eur Energ r anri the U S Fuel Economy 10r fl SO Oational l Planning ssocintion July 1958 lnll Costs of Hnusing fur Oil Shale Tonrr C E Study err Requirement Plants in Western OGloradn intrabureau report Oil Shale DemollStlati m Braneb Rifle 0010 June i2 19 U S Bureau of Mines Information Relating to Wnter Heqnirements for Production of Liquid Fuels From Oil Sh ule Unofficial memorandum I1repnred by the tntf of the Oil Shale Experiment Sl ation Rifle Colo circa 1fl53 Mineral Facts nnd Problems Bulletin 556 Government Printing Office Washington D C 195ft fiuerals l Yearbook Fuels Volume II U S Government Printing Office Washington D C 1959 01 the Interior U S Department Oil Import Regulntion 1 Code of Federal Regulations Title 32 A National Defense Appendix Clllll ter X Oil Import Admillistration l llf 13 1059 lS2351 60 7 3781 APPENDIX E Fon MEETING STORAGE REQffiRE Om REsEn ROEDl IuNrcIPAL AND INDUSTHIAL V TEH FOR TilE OIL SHALE INDUSTRY RIFLE DE BEQUE AREA IN COLORADO POSSIBLE USE l STS fE OF FOR Prepared for the Colorado Water Consermtion Board by consulting engineers Philip P Smith Clifford H Jex and Laren D Morrill August 1959 use of unappropriated water of Colorado for the of the oil shale resources in the Rifle De Beque area of At that time immediately fol estem CoIOJ do date from 1918 I World a rapidly expanding market for liquid fuels in War lowlllg the United States th n as now deriyed 11lmost wholly from petro leum crude pointed to an apparent impending Br ed for supplement ing thnt source ma terial wit oil derin d from oil lwJe ery Disco of large petroleum resenes in east Texas in the early twenties and during the next aecnde in Okla homa California and elsewhere virt uallv arrested the immediate interest of the oil in dustry in Colorado oil shale This is exemplified III the records for water filinbrs for industrialllses in the Rifle De Beque area During 11 claims were recorde l with the period 1918 t hrough 1925 for the oil shale indllstry the Colora do State engineer for wate From 1925 until 1lJ4a only one claim for industrial ater for oil shale was made in that area and that was for onl y 1 second foot of direct flo from the Colorado River to serve the Bureau of Mines experimental plant near Anvil Points in the vicinity of Rifle Colo t he Union Oil Co n pr During this period 1 25 t hrough HHa hov of Cn liforni L and the TCX lS Co initiated a program of purchasing ranches with perfectefl and partially perfeded water rights and in some of which some instances un perfected water chums or filinhrs e h subsequently been carried to decree in the Gal field County Dis t rict Court Beginning with Fe bruary 5 1949 and continuing to date t claims cl1Jling for an a rrgrel l1te di ersion of l mn f second Two of these ith tbe Colorado State engineer fect ha e been filed claims ha e been carried to decree in the dist rict court and most of the beinl ot hers are n the process of djudic ted The follo ll g tabula tion sho s the apparently valid claims for municipal and indust rial water for use in the Rifle De Beque oil shale area and data on tbe two claims whieh have been carrie d to tlecree Claims for the development 90 3782 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR Filing Amount No H822 Clrtinled lIstle Ncw For rul nicip l ond t10mr stlC t1Sl l From Elk Creek lr F Sll1lrC pro luctioll Df power U S Mure u of ci IJII h I C AdwlIllstri lOU Wt r System or Oil l lllnt Pip line Puint of diverSlOllls located 011 thp riht hJ nlr of Ccolomdo Riwr at rI plJint Wh ll tIle Ilorthe t com r of thl c g T ri S R 9 sixth prindl ll uwri l lll hbLr S l oLi W 1 S 2 i fr nnd t1l nl l E 1 173 f ft 60I nnd fllI n W 1fl 1i n AI 5ao thenC c S E II fl to the 0 10 I1 l t 1H of I 31 For domestIC aud plant w tcr uSJ d iu operatiOn point fIf I11t ke of il h lle E peri nel t plflllt l rt Pumping Plant and Pipeline Cllliru mt C H Dasrrt Dnl Chnlk Hill Hd s Tex pomt of Dnll dll r l n r o lt d on the right 1 111k of Colomd l Ri e III the southrJ st 4ofsrl Ii T R 95 W sixth prjntill l m fur jlfl n ri pumping pipeline f lI tl l1rl iU hulc rk For indus up tll P I Cr nltey lith II O IL lifl iul tn 1 mining retorting n fllllng jJowcr Iorntstic Jud t1l1 r uses rE lutlng 10 Oil hdle prudurtlon Tho Columbine line Amenctel1 Claimant JE sse n Ruot Pip l Colo Dcuv I heiutJ kc el ioll Pennsyl llllll St Pointofdi islorated Oil the rij ht h llk of t le Cvlr r I u RiH r inlol of ee 1 U S R II W ix th pril l jp l rnerirJj Il al fI JC mt lJ n t the l thwest s ororr of see j3 1 R III W bears ti30W t S Eaton Pumping Plunt and Clalmant R L ltou E lPlnpe 3325 Monterey Rd SlUl Iarino Clllir reporled y lIladf for the Stuudard OLl Co of California A pumllmg pipeline trom tbe Colorado River the intake for which is ted on the right h mk loc of the Color ldo Rivrr at J point whcnft tbc nortbwest coml r of R 95 W sec 7 T 7 S sLxtb principn lmcrtdlan l1 rs 8 86024 nt a ilistlUlce or 3 3 O Il Plpe ine will Iliwe l vertlcal IHt or 1 300 tt For In lustrlul retorting 1U1n1nl rctinwg aud domes 1819 IB409 Datr clJlmed Town or From Elk Crei k Jrre SO l7 17 91 COLO n 18seC H fL SOli gal per miu AUg 10 1927 Aug 211 1945 JilD secAL 4 1950 33SE c rt Feb 19 IQ4g loosec ft Apr 12 1951 T 1720 tic 18957 20280 usesrdatingtolhe productlolJofoilslm r Cities Sen lr J PijleliJle IIDU CbiJn9 nt Cities PUlllplng Plant St r i OU Co Hart esvJlle Okhl PoiaL of diversion From right bank of Colorado Hi cr In s c 27 T S S H 91 W sl lh lan For ludustria use principal ffit rh Dow Middle Fork Plpt lilll Cbirm m Doll Chemical Co Iidlllnd Mleh SOllrec From I nr lehulc Crr k For indus tL 1005ec 10 sec 20 sec tt Jan 5 1952 Oct 29 1954 Oct 27 19li4 Jan 24 1955 Apr 20 1 57 Aug 15 1957 Irml 1281 2 13 21096 lalh uOUJe lic uS s relat mllling relorting fllling power ing 10 011 shale producliuu DO I East 1 lioldle Fork Plprlllle Claiwmt Dow Chemical Co Dd Midlll 1 Ileb Source From the II j 1e l ork of Para lst E chute Creek For induslri ll minillg retorting refining power and domestic ust s rt lnt1njl OJl sha e to I roduction Dov mlral PumplJJg tnt P mil PJpcllue Claim lnt Dow Ch l Ildlllnd u Co Ilch U1 S From the Colorado CbcmiJ f ornt wbeuce tile west QUI rter corner of sec 23 T is C tt st Oil Shalo Corp and Pllm inb Plant Cblmllnt Oil olPiiI1pc lli9 Bc wlr llHls CalIf rel ortf t1Iy Dylon Oi Co or lJi C ornm POint ofdlvt rsIPlI lnl Fr tht right hallk of tl1 Colomd Ril er in SN 2i T 8 S R i W I tll prulcipal rllli rul lll For us inrlustri ll llr ul 1 Jine P1lllltoflll ersion Sec 7 T 7S R alJcy City l ifli It th prillelplllllleridian un tht right t lUlk of till 0 101 10 si1 SI19 I for 21184 liS fL ft lOOse Curp nllard Sta 30sec ft River 2 245 121304 27 21 S1ncl lir Oil aud Gus Co Plpelino Claimant Sinclair QII Co Tu s l Okla Suurre Direct Jlow of the Colorado H ver at II lnl strC in see 23 T 7 S R 90 W point UII the nglit hank of slltl si th ridmn prlnrl l lmJ Dvw Pllrnflilll PL mttLlld PipelllJe n Cllclnica l Co Clllim Do i lIcb Midlaud Source DIrect nCl of thoColur Jo Rl u witll lt a on thc hank of tile CnlOtfl lo in point right River intk IlCr 34 T 0 S H 95 i1th principal Il1eridiRll CD orudo I1h t r lllcy V 2 line l Un J Bh d DeuI er X Pil rsllr Colo From the dlrllrt flow of S t t utN Creek divcrt Sour ing in Sl c 15 T 3 S H 87 W sixth principal meridiil n a fHI dis charged lntu th Col Jratlo H i r through l3 hydroeleclric power lirar Dolsero Cola t pllUit hence from Ule Color ldo di ertilll Hlver through a pirx llne eXU to tile of llfle Cillo llIIIJl vidnit For use as industrlal and munlclllal c r tor oU shale produc wat tion Apparent amendment l of filing 20343 33sec 8sec 200 sec fL fLu ft Nov 29 1966 Feb 17 1958 SE pt 7 1957 113783 RUEDl DAM AND Data on decreed DECREE 01 1 ight JAUARY Decree Prior ro rriority ityKo date 163 S stem Rifle uf diversion 15 T I S R prlllclJ fLl 258 S 2 I tl l Loc Point PlpeUO COLO RESERVOIR Feb 5 19411 H3 11 I D Appropril Feb 5 1949 in seC ij3 W ll gmn cn lld lIOn date 7y 7 seAt ft S nhsolute conditiorml jxtLL merldl ln nro rnb Jgc i i llti Ftlo 14 11l41l 1 1 14 11149 118 ft candi tiOlllJ sec forui Point 01 diverSIOn d ill sec 0 1 7 S R Locat W si tb principal mori dian s Go ernment di ersion dam for the Grand Valley project U eonstitntes the prin on the Colorado River ne r Cameo Colo cipal point of demand on the flo of the river in western Colorado Here old vested rights in the amount of 2 200 second feet I1re diverted for irrigation stoek watering and incidental hydroelectl ower pro duction in the valley area surrounding the city of Gran Junction Colo By rAlIse of the t ailmce water from the Palisade powerplant of the Grand Valley project the maximum demand on the ri er luring the irrigation season hich extends from Apri 15 through October 31 is limited to 1 800 second feet During the nonirrigatlOn season extending from N O emher 1 through the following April 14 the de at ering and power production rights is 800 mand to sI1tisfy stock second feet This demand on the 1 i e1 a fe miles dowllstream from the Rifle De Heque oil shale area renders jnnior diversion rights estab lished in that area for the oil shale industry inoperative wit hout stor age during periods of low flow in the irrigation season Cameron Jones Inc a firm of engineering consultants of Denver Colo prepared a study for the State of Colorado in which they esh matthat commercial development of the oil shale resources in the Rifle De Beque area of western Colomdo ill bein in calendar year 1965 further estimate in their hwh is also appended They report to the Rendi Dam and Reservoir report that the consumptive use of ater by the oil shale industry in the Rifle De Beque area would re sult in a net depletion in t he flo of the Colorado River in the Rifle The located icJ Beque area by the year lVi5 nmollnting to 12i 200 ncre feet an nually or approximately 175 second fe et of cont inuous flow Since 1935 the U S 1eologiml Survey has operated a stream gag ing station on the Colorado Riyer at the near Cameo station im mediately upstream from the Grand Valley project di ersion dam De In order to determme the need for storage to firm up the ateI re for the oil shale industry in calendar year 1975 as de the firm of Cameron Jones the mean daily discharge of the Colorado River at the r nea Cameo stat ion for water years ith respect to 1 th e 1953 1954 1955 Rnd 1956 were considered mean daily demand for senior irrigation and power rights downst ream 2 from Cameo anticipated increa8ed inbasin consumptive use by irrig at ioll under est ublished claims de ere eel or in t he process of ad judication and 3 increased transmountain diversion from the Colo rado River systeln abO e Cameo r decreed rights unde it was found that in water year 1953 there were 5i days hen no direct flo would quirements eloped hy 1 3784 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO 93 IUl e Jeen available to the oil shale indu try in the Rifle De Bequ e rea from the Colorado River und that approximately O OOU acre feet of storage releases would h l e been necessa ry to firm up n depletIOn re quirement of 175 second feet In that year shortages would have oc cUlTed duriug the periods Octouer 2 through October 30 April 19 through Aprjl 23 May 1 through May 22 September 4 through September 21 YlIter year UJ54 there were 105 days t III when ter in the amount of 175 seconu feet was not lnniluule to the oil shale industry aud ndeasEs in the nmount of 3G 750 nere feet would have been ze stora ede ne l to firm up this requirement In that water year shortages would have occnrred during t he periods October 1 through October 2 October 24 through Octobel 31 April 1 through April 20 April 22 throngh April 2G May 1 through May 9 IT uly 2G tllrough August l August Hi thl ough September 8 Ough September 9 thl September 12 September Hi through September W In wa ter year 195 shortages ou Id have occurred during 5G and 19 250 acre feet of Htorage releases would haye Leen led nee to filldityS the oil shale industry requirements Shortages ot curred during the periods Octouer 1 thruugh Odober 8 October 20 through October 31 April 15 through April 17 IllY 1 through 1 lay 2 August 18 through September 30 water year If shortages would have i occurred durlng DG days In awl 3 GOO acre feet of storage releases would 11Hve been needed to In that water year firm up t he demands for the oil sha le industry shortages would hn ye occulTed during the periods October 1 through October 31 Tuly 1D through August 2 August 4 through Augnst 17 August 19 through September 30 This study demonstrates that t he oil shale industry will need 7 000 acre feet of storage to firm up rights established to the at lenst use of direct flo in the Colorado Ri er in the Rifle De Beque area by 1975 for lllunicipal and industrial uses presented in the Ca meron T ones report Jones studies and assuming that the Extending the Cameron munieipal nnd industrial requirements will groW at the same rate ns tlw llntiollal populat iOll tl e nd 01 1 pereellt pel deeude C ulIlpOlUlded the total Hllllllal 1l111l1icipal and industrial water consumption require ould be 217 200 acre fe t bv the ments in the Rifle De Beqlle area 2014 This is that the total yield of Ruedi Res noil the year year would be required for municipal and industrial purposes according to estimates made by the Bureau of Reclamation 943785 RUED DAM Al D c RESERVOIR COLO Planning for this future mmlicipal and industrial demand resulted in the consideration of six reservoir sites as alternates to the Ruedi site all of hich are located so that the available ateI sUl l ly could The be used by the oil shale industry and resulting municipahtles sites considered ere Hot Springs Osgood and Placita sites on the Crysbtl River above Carbondale Rio Blanco on the South Fork of the 1Vhite River above Glenwood Springs the Iron Mountain site on Homestake Creek in the Eagle River Basin and the Bear Wallow site on Canyon Creek The proposed reservoirs were first investigated on the basis of the water available for storage since the basic requirement was that the reservoir must have an annual yield equivalent to that of Ruedi The Iron Mountain Reservoir and the Bear Wallow Res Reservoir ervoir could not meet these limitations and Yere rejected In order to insure the validity of the comparati ve cost data for the remaining four reservoirs the construction cost of each was computed on t he basis of single purpose municipal and industrial water with no In esti consideration being given to power and irrigation benefits mat ing the costs procedures similar to those used by the Bureau of Reclamation ill making reconnaissance st udies were followed in each case The unit costs ere arrived at 011 t he basis of t he best informa tion available from reconnaissance surveys and in addition 20 per cent was added for contingencies and 25 percent was added for engi neering and overhead expense The sums of all the costs for various capacities ere t en plotted as shown on the accompanying graph of cost versus capacIty A DOll COST 11llUI 5 Sl r i 00 1 0 I cO 11l 1 v r 0 t J OOP t 1 l 1 J 1401 1 J 0 S PL o tAC1t g OUU COST CAPACITY 00 C JULY FOR M a I l CRE FEn OSQF 0 i CURVES WATER 1959 J 0 J V I l 0 C POTENTIAL SINGLE PURPOSE RESERVOIRS 0 v TO IN Tt eo 1 i 1 T r Gu ITv I 1I 1 IiO CAPlloClTY I COST JI ON DOLLAIlS o o o j CFJ to 1 00 c l t l t l t o E oD l C 96 7 37 8 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO This gmph demonstrates that Placita Reservoir site is the cheapest of the sites studied in the range from 35 000 to 120 000 acre feet Vater supply studies and streamflow estimates indicate at a total th Reser the Placlta at would be feet necessary storage of 85 000 acre voir site to yield tIle same nmOl1nt of mUllicip111 and industrial water The cost capacity curve for the Plncita Reservoir as Ruedi Reservoir shows that an 85 000 acre foot reservoir at that site would cost ap proximately 11 100 000 The estimated operation and maintenance t should be remembered however costs would be 7 000 per year that this condition pertains to a single purpose lise and the com parable Ruedi Resen oir as a feature of the Fryingpan Al kansas proj ect will provide multiple services I I I I E Cola G1 N Sprl Ive Ra9 w II londs I londs nWOOl j LE G END 2 Supplemento I N 1 mile 9 Z f F4i f 8 I i p L I 0 I I I s p 1 f Y R saw yif r I Co F I I I I I Q lip ti f t I 1 I@ G I r I I PI erl fr b i o i I J t Fa i I Rals Rlls C if ioi I V I II i I Y r t 0 Bo 011 Pe stac n eM V nloroelnn I t j l 0 R87W n j i1 j i 0 I I a vV on S ockma sQitc Edens V 0 T6S p 0 f 1 1 I W o v 1 EAGLE Sf G K Cr J PITKIN r i MAP I L R85W A I K E N N c II COUNTIES PROJECT THE GENERAL OF in T I GARFIELD BASALT I VE AND Fj p 1 Si COLORADO I R Is CO R84W Rldi I I CO 1 I ME EDI J T s 7 T a S u o N o 3782 APPENDIX F REPORT ON B ASALT PROJECT ateI P Smith secretary eng ineer the Colorado River Board iltion Conser Consermtion District for the Colorado Vater By Philip August 1G5G CHAPTER I GENERAL DISCUSSION The de elopment plan for the Basalt project is the result of a recon naissauce investigation made by the State of Colorado to determine development l otentialities for arable land resources commanded by and in the viclllity of the Huedi Reservoir a feature of roposed Fryingpan Arknnsas project The project lands are locnte in Gar field Pitkin and Engle Counties of west central Colorado They comprise a part of the Roaring Fork Basin of the upper Colorado River dminage system and are physically divided into two separate areas hy the Roaring Fork River The Sopris area west of the river is the smaller of the two and occupies an alluvial fan developed by Sopris Creek where that stream discharges from mountainons terrain Oil the east slope of foUJlt Sopris into the RoarinCT Fork Yal1ey west of the town of Basalt Colo The Cattle freek area is located east of the Roaring Fork Riyer on benchlands bordering the river valley and along the valleys of Roarin Fork tributaries flowing through these benchlands from Red Table lIIountain situated to the south and east Notable f these a1nOI CaU1e Creek its principal tributary LQlllter tributary streams are The southcrn part of the Cattle Creek area Creek and Lnndis Creek is composed of undulating henchla nds now part ially lInfl inadequately l il igated by waters diyerted from Cattle Creek The central part of I he area contains the flood pln in valleys and bordering benches of The northern pOltion of the are Cnttle and Coulter Creeks consists of Spring Valley ft flat bottomed st fllctural trough dra ined by Landis Creek and the Spring Valley Beneh an alluvial terrace est ward to the west of Spring Valley whieh slopes gently Roaring Fork V lle ComparnWtit e studies of alternatiye plans and YUriOllS scales of de velopment for thc amble lands in the project area indicnte t his plan t o be the most faorahle with resped t o engineering feasibility and economic desirability Development under the adopted plan muld for he full t I Jl acres of product i e new lands Irrigation of provide and the supplemental irrig tion of 6 427 acres of inadequately irri gated lands There are apd tioual arable lands situated abo e the clelt ery systems that lllIght be served from elanned Jll oJect water theJ t M Ill I 98 37 9 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO Cattle Coulter and Sopris Creeks by exchange of present used plies project On project lands for Frymgpan water water sup developed by the Arable lands of the Cat t e Creek area average about 7 000 feet In ele vation Thes are contained in fairly large tracts suitable for farm development Arable lands in the Sapris area a crag about 6 500 feet in ation and 1Il general are presently dn lded Into adequate ele farm units but mode ratel sized y The runoff In Cattle Creek and Its trlbutarJes as well as of Soprls Creek which in general are the principal sources of water supply f r the presently irril ated lands in the project rea are o erapproprl In the Cattle Creek area this use ated and alrilOst completely used is facilitated by eierht storaO e reservoirs constructed bv priyate enter prise which h aVe a combi ed capacity of approximately 4 OO acre ateI Also in that area lt relatively small nmonnt of irrigat ion feet is being imported to the Cattle Creek Basin from Cot t onwood Creek a tributary of the Colorado River above the mouth of Roaring Fork Ri er Vith the plnnned development the use of the wat er supply obbtilled from present sources would be expanded by prO iding for maximum distribution wit hin inNll demand throughout the project Most of the new water supply however would he imported area to the Cattle Creek and Sopris areas from direct flow diversion from the Frying pan River at t he out let of the li Reservoir and from Rue storage releases from that rese I voir The Ruedi Reservoir with an active capacity of not less than 100 000 ac re feet is he principal western Colorado replacement feature of the Fryingpnn Arkansas project This reservoir has been described in the Ruedi Dam and Bese rvoil n port to which this report is appended Under the Basalt project development plan SUl p us direct flow of water in the Frying pan Riyer would be passed thl ollgh tJle Ruedi Reserroir IInd reservoir outlet works and discharged into the Basalt conduit Also as required water ston d in Rueeli Reservoir would be l leased through the reservoir outlet works to this conduit The conduit with acapneity of 250 second feet would be constructed along the south side of the Fryingpan River Valley to a point approximately 3 TIiles llpstrenID from th point of confluence of the Fryingpnn Rit er WIth t he Roaring Fork Rn er near the town of Basalt Colo Here the Basalt conduit would cross a narrow section in the Fryinn pan Valley by inverted siphon and cont inue on t he nort h side or the Fryin pan valley around the southwest slope of Basalt Mountain to termmate at a point approximately 1 mile northwest of the town of Basalt Colo Here the waters conveyed by the Basalt conduit would be dis charged into the head o f theL ndis Cuna wit h an initial caacity of 220 second feet and IlltO a SIphon fOrJning the hend of the Stock man s ditch Thc Landis clum wou d extend some 30 miles north and west to the no hem limits of Spring Valley It would pass above the Missouri HeIghts area cross and intercept flows in Cattle and Coulter Creeks llnd cont inue along the east slope of Spring Valley where it would cross Landis Creek forc be terminating at the inlet to the Sprin Val ley siphon The Spring Valley siphon with a cllpacit y of 50 s cond feet would convey water to the uppermost limits of the Spring Valley Here the siphon would discharge into the Spring Valley Bench 379i RUEDl DAM AND RESERVOIR 99 COLO Bench lateral system which would be constructed as a part of the TlIl nouts would be provIded along the L nd s canal to project deliver water to existing irrigation systems and lateral systems to be provided to serve new land areas The balance of the water discharged from the terminus of the Basalt conduit would be cOIn eyed across the Roaring Fork valley to the ex istinl Stockman s ditch This clitch would be enlarged and extended to deliver a full water supply to the lands in the Sopris area The initial capacity of the dltch would be 30 second feetThe Stock to lands in the ma n s ditch was water constructed to deliver originally Sopris arell di erted from SnownHlss Creek and intercepted from the channel of Sopris Creek where the canal system crosses that stream Snow mass Creek is a tributary to the Roaring Fork River frolll the west at a point 4 miles upstream from the mouth of the Fryingpan ek to the Sopris River The ditch WflS constructed rom Snowmas s CI Valle along a steep slope bordering t he Roaring Fork flood plain in the Vlcinit of the town of Basalt Colo Repeated failure by land Iide of t lllS portion of the ditch resulted in abandonment of the ditch system above t he Sopris Valley Now all of the water available to the canal system is neces arily derived from Sopris Creek The Basalt project would obviate the need for this upper part of the original Stockman water s users ditch which in the past has proven too difficult for the operate and maintain to PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY The drainage basin of the Fryingpan Ri eI which will provide of the project water extends westward about 40 miles from the nort hern end of the majestic Sawatch Range and is separated from the Cattle Creek Basin hy Red Table Mountlin The Sawutch Range is a grent granitic cored nntieline with a north south trend which forms the Continental Divide and the divide between t he Roaring Fork and Arkansas Rivers Seyeral peaks of this range exceed 14 000 feet in elevation and it comprises one of the better tscnhowmRcenat areas in the Colorado River Basin Vest of the north end of the Sawatch Range is a considerable area of lofty plateau known as Red Table Mountain which has a rimum ma elevation of approximately 11 700 feet Much of the exposed rock on this mountain IS Maroon formation of t he Pemlsylvania n and Permian ages The top of t he mount in is capped wit h basalt and ot her ext rusiye material Cattle Creek drains t he nort h slope of the westem part of Red Table Mountain Sopris Creek west of the Roaring Fork Riyer drains from tJ e eastem e of Mount which is mlcanic in origin and almost 13 000 feet slol m Sopri height Mount opris is located between the Roaring Fork River and its principal tributary Crystal River and is the nort hemmost peak in a spur of the Vest Elk Mountains most CLIMATE The climate in the locale of the project lands is temperate semiarid and is generally sat isfactory for diversified irrigation agriculture July und August the maximum da ily temperat ures generally Durin range from 800 to 900 F The relative humidity is low and the average 100319 2 RUEDr DAM AND COLO RESERVOIR frost free period at Glenwood Springs Co o the nearest climatologi cal station is 132 days Precipit ation at Glenwood prings averag About one tlllrd of thIs occurs as ram about 10 5 inches annually during the growing seasOll IIEI FTI LF 1 T jry Hist The settlement of the project area beA an in 1881 immediately fol lowin the removal of the Ute Indian Tribes from western Colorado This removal was proYided for to theIr IHesent resen at ion in Utah Settlement was largely based under terms of the Ute Treatv of 1880 ext ensive silver and gold mining on il l i atjon rJ jcult ure to l operations in p oO ress near the headwaters of the Roa ring Fork Rier Stlpport Full appropriation of readily available of its t ibutaries Snb e soon halted the establishment of new homesteads small reservoirs and of nt of several importation e loplm quel1t de water from Cottonwood Creek to t he Cattle Creek area during t he period 1000 to W20 a Ilowed for some further set t1ement The re are no tOWllS within the inunediate project area Basalt Car 3 411 bondale and Glenwo Springs with W50 populations of 17 1 and 2 412 respeeti ely are located in the Roaring Fork Valley along Western Railroad All a branch lino of the Denver Rio Grande of these towns are ngl inulturnl serviee communities ann n re a lso l esort and tourist centers d SOllie stl ewnHow POpuhftio n The 19fiO U S Census of Pop datioll indicated that the population of t he project area has been stclldily declill ing since 1030 The project lands Hre contained in S8yen precincts in Gadleld Eag le and Pit kin COlin ties of Colorndo Ollly one of these t he Cat tle Creek prec inct in GarHe hl County is contained entirel within the Imit aten The pOpll b tion of t his preeillct and of Eagle G rliold and Pit kin Counties of the projeef nren lHe pre elltp d below ilnd the est illlllted popnl ltion 1ulntlon PO 9 1l 31j IO Englc l BIl5 1 n cnuntY lg ri d llprOJeClllTPll lmt s l te n 3 1124 It tJ 1 77rl I I 10 1 1 111 1 4 1 4 r2 1l 60 81 I MIl 2 17 5 h 17 The decline ill population of the Cattle Creek preeinet nml t he t area in genenl1 is believed to Ilf lilq from l l1l1ge y due to a c el ojei rliversif ied fanninp OIl relatively small f lrms to lh estock rnnching This change resl lted from fre lJent yeUlS of drought Hl1H er IIIlit y mdltlOlls whIch have oceurred SJnce il on t le water heds provld ID irr ion er wn to ing present gat pr ject l mds and n supply 1genem tl end towltnI lI1crensed h estock prodndlOll on r 1I1c elltllds of t he Ve t due to increased profit8 in this industry duriug fhe period 1 40 to 1950 pl I 3793 RUEDl DAM l nESE AND RESERVOIR T TNDUSTnI L JE 101 COLO U NT ELOP in the region of the project tletl Agrilmlture is the bltsic illdustl Extensive tl llCts of publie and l iyateJy owned grazing b nds bOl de r ing the project lands are ultilized for SlImmer range for sheep uld ca ttle Iost of the irrigated farmlands are used for glowlI1g forage and igrnn feed crops bome potntoes a nd other row crops are pro duced on irrign ted project lands Potatoes were once 11n important pari of the farm economy in the l Iissollri Heights area as is evidenced Illsteads by it large potato storage celln r located a t almost all of the f Ll been den loped for processing Only a small nmollnt of indllst IY hat ngriclllt Ul al products from t he projed area and vieinity Livestock and most othel farm prouuee are prxessecl outside the local area A modern e reamer y at Glenwoocl Spril1gs processes locally produced milk and Cle 11ll for l1 and clist mt markets botlllo Coal mines principally located on the west side of t he Roaring Fork Basin nre operated to pl o ide l and out icle lemands Iost for loe a of this coal is processed for lIletaJlul gicnl coke for the steel industry 1 Iflll Spodutlon and other facilities The in mn line of the Denver I io Grande Vest ern Railroad between Denver Pueblo and Stilt Luke City pnsses through Glen wood Springs A br lIlch lille of this system extelllls up tIle HOtll ing Fork Valley from Ood Glem Springs to Aspen The greatest dis t lIlee between project lands and a railhead is npproxinmte ly 0 miles H ilroad Aspha lt surfa led State lig hway 8 parallels rhis brandl l line and connects with JlumerOlls gra veled COUJlty ro ab which t raverse t he project lands Telephone seL vice lnd eledri pUWCl nrc ll ailable t he cont l ined in the project lands are State Highway throllglwut 82 COllneets with Federal IighwllYS ti find 24 at G lenwood Springs La nil U8e Dist ribution of 1n llllownership in Garfield County wllich contains 1 916 160 n c l e s and most of the project lnnds is shown llelO Percent Pril lltely owned CUltivllted lanu Ist Grazing and 5 IS elnJld 1 iucral Iflnll 7 Total 30 Federally owned National fore8L Federal grnzlog nnd MUitllry ami other 26 40 reserves n Total 3 69 LUClll nud Stllte government land Virtllally ll of the irrigahle land owned development is pl i alel u th t would be served with 1 project In igation The first oJwiations of natura l flow for irrigation ill tIle pl Oj made i n 1 8 from Cattle Creek and it s trihutaries IITign tion demands soon ex eeded late season flows The Hem hkel Canal impoIting water from Cotton ood Cl l ek to Cattle Cl ek was eet area r v pPI n were Icg79 RUEDl DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO Reservoir construction in the basin w tS constructed about 1000 A stm ted in 1805 and has cont inued sporadically to t he present time small resel voir constructed on Coulter Crook in 1947 comprises the The major step in storll e development most recent development occurred about 1000 with t he construct ion of the MIssouri Heights This reservoir with Reservoir by a private development company e feet is by fl l t he largest of the eight rl ser a capacit y of 9 800 nc vail s cited All of the others were developed llS individual or part llelship Some 50 years ago a study as made by pl iVll te enterprise the fo lLsibility of import ing additional irri to determine enterprise gat ion water for use in the Cattle Creek l rea from the Fryingpan Basin The studies indimted the cost of such development would exceed t he financial capacity of the interested water users Otheruxlter uses Other than for irf jgntion wnte I is used loeaJly for domestic and llluls in the project area a re Some of t he e stock ring wnte pUI1 oses rated ope during the winter to supply dOI lest ic and stock fltering lbutal ieS In theIr upper Cattle Creek and some of lls tl needs re nehes aho afford recreational use for trout fishing U developed re80ureeB The only appreciable eloped resOlllces of the project area und8 other than irrigabJe land and water is the timber contained in the nearby national forest reserves Volcanic ash obtained from de posits on Basalt Mountain are being locally processed for pumice buildin block Laminated sandstone is being quarried in the Fry ingpan l iver Basin for huilding materials Extensive coal reserves are located in the Huntsman Hills which form the west boundary of the Roaring Fork Basin ECONOMIC CONDITIONS l igation water now The limited and often mcager supply of il available t o the project area has forced semiarid farming operations on most of the area ranches and 11l1 s n slllted in generally poor liv ing standards for farm families of the area Some p wt t ime em ployment opportunities are afforded locally by nearby forestry and mining activities Industry relnting to a rgriculture provides sea sonal em ployment Further development of agricult ural resources of the area is de pendent on development of an adequate irrigation water supply at costUnless llddltlOnal water IS developed presently irri reasonable gated lands of the area can never reach full productivity and the extensive areas of irrigable dry lands will remain virtually unpro ductive tIN1VESTI TIONSO Previou r 1nve8tigatlon8 Inyestigation of possible irriglltion development in the Cattle Creek area was init iated by the Blll eau of Reclamation in 1040 in connec tion with an inventory of potential small projects Results of this I 3793 RUEDl DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO 103 in lhe report e ltitl l The of ReclamatIOn III 1946 Bureau released by the Colorado River The developmeI t plan presented therein inv olved enlnrgement of the Missouri Heights Reservoir to a total capaCIty of 9 000 acre feet and enlargement of the reservoir feeder canlLl from Cattle Creek It was estimated in the report that this development would provIde for sup plemental irrigation of 5 500 acres of presently llTlgated lands and An mterestmg re a full water supply for 900 acres of new lands view of this study was conducted and reported by S V Voelkel and E C Hunter of the Colorado Agricultural and Mechanical College Possibilities for Expansion of Their report is entitled in 1948 Irri ated A ricultural Lands in the Roaring Fork Basin of Colo rad their report concurred in the findings of the Bu In however subsequent stream gaging rec rerm of Reclamation study ords for the runoff in Cattle Creek indicates that in many years very little water is available from that stream for filling additional capacity in the Missouri Heights Reservoir R econnaissance inesti ations to pl o ide increased irrigation sup for Cattle Creek and Sopris areas were undertaken by the the plies Bureau of Reclamation in 1040 Fieldwork on im estigations of the and l1ati altel e adopted plan development phms are described in the substantiating material for a st atus report on the Clitl s Diviclc proj ect dated February 1054 The development plans were presented lmder sections 01 the Cattle Creek unit und the 1 ount Sopl is unit of the Clitfs Divide project At that time and for many years previ ous the Bureau of Heclamation had been invest igating the possibilities of diverting water from the Upper Colorado River Basin into the Arkansas River Basin foT lrrigation municipal industrial and pOVler uses The first published report on this is known as the GWlIlison Arkansas project and is dated June 1048 In this report the initial phase of the multiple purpose development plan proposed the diver sion of an average of 60 000 acre feet ammally from the headwaters of the Fryingpan River and Hnnter Creek with 11 collection system extending southward from the North Fork of the Fryingpan at an approximate elevation 10 000 feet by way of t unnel through t he Con tinental Divide into the headwaters of the Arkansas River Re placement for depletions afl ecting prior rights on the Colorado Ri er waS planned as storage on the Ruedi ReselToir site on Fryingpan Ri er downstreaI from the mouth of Ruedi Creek Subsequent re lSlOn of th s lUlt lal phase development plan was reported in January 1050 Under the revised plan the replacement stora e was pro posed at the Aspen Hesenoir on the Roaring Fork Ri vet near Aspen Colo Extension of the Fryingpllll River collection svstem north ward to Lime Creek and south ward to the South FOI k of Hunter Creek was lso proposed These extensions allowed for additional diversions of 9 200 acre feet annually to eastern Colorado Plans for the Cattle Creek unit of the ClitIs Divide projeet were coordinated to interfere as little as possible with the proposed 1050 ersion of the Fryingpan Arkansas project However the latter project di ersion froIl Lime Creek was to some extent in conflict with the plan f r servlllg the GUtle Creek area WIth water from the FrYlllgpan Baslll WIth respect to LIme Creek The adopted pla n after stndying and prelimlmLry investigation general er presented 104 RUEDl DAM a River Prl AND RESERVOIR COLO the Cattle Creek area with water from the Eag1e system onveyed to the Cattle Creek BaSlll through Cottonwood Pass proVlded for 1 A feeder cunal from Lime Creek to Little Lime Creek 2 The Little Lime Creek Reservoir on Little Lime Creek at elevation 9 531 feet above sea level and with an active storage capacity of 13 200 acre feet 3 A feeder canal from East Brush Creek of the Eagle River system througb Crooked Creek Pass to Little Lime Creek above the Little Lime Creek Reservoir 4 The Red Table Mountain conduit 12 miles in length 42 extending along the south face of Red Table Mountain at ap proximate elevation 9 400 feet and capacity of 170 second feet and comprised primarily of concrete bench flume and tUlUlel sec tion would intercept runoff in numerous tributaries of the Fry ingpan River draining the south slope of Red Table Mountain and convey t he waters thus diverted into the head of the Cattle Creek dmi nage 5 Enlargeme nt of the Mountain Ie3dow ditch divert ing from Cat tle Creek and feeding Cattle Creek water to the Missouri Heights Reservoir for storage and to the Missouri Heights are under direct flow rights 6 Enlargement of the 1 Iissouri Heights Reservoir from its capacity of present capacit of 2 800 acre feet to a total act v 13 700 acre feet 7 Enlargement of the canal distribution system under the Missouri Heights Res rvoir 8 Constrllction of the Landis canal extpJ1 jng from fL point of diversion on Catt le Creek at elevat ion 7 445 feet above sea level to the northern end of Spring Valley alio by inverter siphon across Spring Valley to the Spriug Valley Bench From Cat tle Creek to its terminus the Laudis canal planued fO Cattle Creek unit of the Clifi s ide project approximntes tIle same alinement Di as tho plan for t hat port ion of the Landis canal adopted for the Basalt project The estimated cost of the di ersion and conveyance facjJjties for the Ca Ule Creek unit from the Fryingpan watersiiecl were v ry high due to their high elevat ion inaccessibilit y aud the difficult terrain the conduit would traverse The plan was not suited to StOl fia and diversions from the Ruedi ReserVOir site since the cost of deveIol ulent of that storage would necessarily ha e bcen llc bol ent irely by the Cattle Creek Ulllt The present propose d plan for t he Frvingpan Arkansas project storage in isnpglify iued Resel yoir lends itself to a nd re uUlg the cost of delIverlllg wat er from the basin yingpnn Fr to t he Cat t le Creek area The financial analvsis for the Cattle Creek unit of the Cliffs Divide project gave a be icfit cost ratio of slightly For that reason t he Cattle Creek unit Jess thHn unity not in wn cluded in t he potential projects g iven preference for future detailed in gabon esti by t he Bureau of Reclamation The ount S oris unit of the Cliffs Diyirle project which containe d the Soprjs sen lee arp a of t he Basalt project was discussen in the status report for the Cliffs Dil ide project dated Febl1 lI Y 1 4 As ej J n to serve 3797 RUED DAM AL D RESERVOIR COLO 105 as a part of the Cliffs Divide project the MOUlit Sopris unit nhutary also c ontained and would serve sen jce fil etlS 011 Prince Creek t to Crystal Ri er and on Capitol Creek tributary to Snowmass Creek While the investigation for t his project was in progress two private entities constructed work illYolving the same unappropriated waters planned for use in the Mount Sopris unit to sen c some of the lands for hieh de clopmellt was planned by that unit This developm ent Rcclam ion of the MOImt 1t precluded completion hy the Bureau of Sopri U11it st udy The Mount Sopris unit as planned in the Cliffs Divide project studies provided for t he diycrsion of surplus flows in mass Creek to be conveyed across Capitol Creek and through 11 Snov saddle in the di ide separating Capitol Creek find the West Fork of Sopris Creek 1Vater thus oht lined from Snowmass Creek would have been deli ered through an enlarged and extended Stockman s ditch fiS is provided in t he Basalt project plan except that the water delivered would be from a different source planned P reSf nt inl estigation The present reconnaissance investigation leading to this report waS initiated by the Colorado Ri vel Water Conserntion District early in 1056 Fieldwork and st udies performed and made by the Bureau of Reclamation in connection with their CliffswDivide project particu larly land c1assificntion surveys were utilized by the district in the preparation of their plan of development The district topographi cally mapped the Rcudi Reservoir site made stadia traverse surveys of t1 e Basalt conduit the Stockman s ditch enlargement and exten sion and the upper portion of t he Landis canal The survey notes included data as to C I OSS slopes the nature of terl nin being trRve rsed and data on materin s that would be eneountered in structure excaVR tion and vegetative cover along the traverses The district prepared and filed with the State engineer of the State of Colorado a Imp and statement of the Basalt project claiming lJ flrierity date of Tuly 2l 1057 In later fidjudicatlOn proceedings for IVater District No 38 State of Colorado ti e Basalt project was awarded a condition l decree for 140 697 3 acre feet of stornge in the Ruedi Rese rvoir 400 Eecond feet of direct flow from the Fryingpan River at the outlct works of the Ruedi Reseryoir for irrigatlOn Iincident municipal a nd industrial uses for 50 second power a nd feet at the same point of diversion for piscatorial vnlues in the chan nel of the Fryingpan River downstream from the Ruedi Reservoir 170 second feet from the channel of CnWe Crer k at the point of crossing of the Landis canal 170 second feet from the channel of Coulter Creek at the point of crossing of the Landis canal on that stream and 30 seeond feet from the channel of Sopris Creek at the point of crossing of t he Stockman s ditch with that stream Office work performed by the district and the State of Colorado for the Basalt project included water supply and operation analysis de sign and cost estimst e studies preparat ion of economic nmtlysis for potential agrieulturnl tlevelopllltmt and repayment stndies for the water de ivery facilit ies of the project Suney notes topographic ma ps filmr nmps and support mg data Tor the office studi es are 011 Ifl in the district office in Glen wood Springs Colo f 3r 1 GO 8 798 1 6 RUEDI DAM CHAPTER II AND RESERVOIR COLO DESIGNS AND ESTI1IATES INTRODUCTION Ba s for e tima es presented herein are based on costs of typical struc successfully constructed operated and maintained by the Bureau 8ince reconnaissance of Reclamation over a period of many years field data were utilized in preparing the estimates they are necessarily preliminary in scope By the addition of 20 percent of the cstimated The estimates tures construction costs for all features of the work an allowance was made for unforeseen contingencies An additional allowance of 30 perce nt was made to the sum of the estimated construction costs and contin Estimates gency allowallce to cover engineering and o erhead costs for the Ruedi Reservoir are not contained in this report since the reservoir and appurtenant facilities including outlet works hH e been studied and reported as features of the Fryingpan Arkansas project Estimates for the Basalt conduit the Landis canal and the Stockman s ditch extension and enlargement were prepared on the basis of present day cost s based on current Bureau of Reclamation estimating data Field datll obt ained for these est imlltes consistcd of starlia travcrse locations of the water conveyance systems iucludiJig inflwmation on cross slopes nature of material to be excavated Yf getative coyering etc Estimates of oper ltion and maintenance costs were based on like developed for the Paouin project now under construction and partially in operation In accordance with present Bureau Jw icy no replacement is required for canal structures properly maintamed since proper maintenance would provide for replacement as needed Computations of canal excavations were based on canal sections with a base to depth ratio of approximately 2 0 and with side slopes set at 1 to 1 1 beclluse 11 2 1 The cut bank above the canal varied from 1 of t he variation in steepness of t he natural slopes depending upon the capacity As with canals the quantities of excavation and concrete for bench tlumcs and closed conduits were computed and multiplied by unit prices to estimate their costs The cost of siphons was est imated on a unit basis depending upon size head required material etc Cost estimates of such canal struc tures excavation turnouts and wasteways were obtained by compari son with costs of structures of similar c n pacity on recently bid Bureau of Reclamation projects under construction or recently constructed under like conditions The est imated cost of lateral systems needed to serve the la lIlIs were made on 11 lump sum basis costs GEOLOGY locat ion for the BllSalt conduit is generally on canyon The terrain is generally rough with steel sandstone ledges covered in most areas with taus accWllulations mIxed with residual soils A considerable part of the excavation for this facility will be in rock and will require lining bench tlume or dosed conduit The accessibility to the conduit will be difficult in some locations The or planned steep valley walls of the Fryingpan River 3799 RUEDI DAM c D A RESERVOIR COLO 107 Excavation for the Landis Canal will be in overburden of reddish loam soils with some lava cobbles broken sa ndstone and boulders In t he areas near the st ream channels gravelly soils will be encountered but there appears to be sufficient fines along the aline A canal in menl of the Ct lnal to assure good construction conditions the planned location should he fairly economical to construct and operation cost s should be moderate The Stoc kman s ditch and proposed extcnsion is located in alluvial outwash Ca nal construction aad cunal maintenance in this location will La simple and economicn l Concrete aggregate for the above described facilit ies is readily available in the channel of the Roaring Fork Ri oer near Basalt Colo sandy clay CONSTRUCTION 1l truction PROBLE S o 8eaEon elenltions ranging from ap level Climatic conditions will be ge nerallv 8m ere for construction during the winter months The most fn vorable construct ion season would extend from about mid ember of eneh year A construction period of about April to mid No 2 years would be required t o complete t he water delivery facilities of the Basalt project Basalt project facilities are located proximately G 500 to 7 500 feet above at sect Accessibility The project area is provided for arterial connections to other parts of the count ry by one major railroad the Denver Rio Grande VeHt eMl whose DellYer Salt Lake City line at Glenwoocl Springs is within 10 miles of the northernmost of the project lands A branch line of this railroad extending from Glenwood Springs to Aspen Colo lies adjacent to some of the projed nnds The t wo lines furnish railheads to all features of t he Basalt project over the following improyed roads 307 and 107 nnd variolls county Colorado State Highways 104 82 roads The lengtll of h wl would vary from 4 to 12 miles with an nverage of about 8 miles AMilability of power Electric power could be furnished by the Pllblic Service Co of Colo rado from fa 115 kiloyolt nmpere transmission line thut runs through the project area and extends up the Fryingpan River en route to Lead ville Colo Construction camps Provisions for housing for the working forces needed for the con struction of the Basalt project could be found in the lll sevel towns located in t he Roaring Fork Valley near the project area Glenwood Springs Carbondale and Basalt Colo are all witJlin a few miles of BasH t is the most centmlly ated loc the work community with re spect to the project facilities frolll which town all of the main features are within a distance of 15 miles 108 saO RUEDl DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO Right of lDay canal right of way for the Basalt project would entail little t rouble or expense The Basalt conduit is primarily located on public domain rirrht of wav for must of the StockmtlJl S ditch is now established anrl ilthough considerable part of t he right of way for the LaJldis Canal is privately owned acquisition of the right of way is assured by an act of Congress dated August 30 18GO 26 Stat 3Gl Obtaining PROJECT FEATURES Basalt conduit The Basalt conduit would head at the outlet works of the dam level the Ruedi Reservoir at elevation 9 500 feet above sea and would extend along t he sout h side of the Fryingpau River Can At t hat point the conduit would cross yon for a distance of H miles a narrows in the valley or ea nyon by in el ted siphon and would extend from the siphon outlet along the north slope of the Fryingpan River Canyon around t hc southwestern slope of Basalt Mountain to it s terminus The overall lengt h of t he Basalt conduit would be 14 8 miles Const ruction work ttlong t he alinemont of this conduit would be hen v with about 35 percent consisting of rock excavat ion Side hill slopes vary between 15 ami 80 percent with the average being about 35 percent Clearing would be required along approximately 60 per cent of the right of wny and would consist of brush and a small amount of coniferous und aspen timber The conduit would have a capacity of 250 second feet and would he composetl of 1 00 lineal feet of concrete pipe section IG DfJO lineal feet of conerete lined open canal section 4G lOO linenl feet of COH l J edion 2 000 linenl P bmlrh Hume feet of welded steel siphon 1 000 lineal feet of concrete siphun G 900 lineal feet of unlined canal section and necessary rond and stream forming crossln6ys Landis canal The Landis canal would head at the terminus of t he Basalt conduit and would ext end in l1 general northwesterly tion a distance of dire 28 3 miles to the head of he Spring Valley Benuh lateral system It would have an initi tl capacity of 220 second feet and a tei minal ca pacity of 50 second feet Construct ion work along the cana l system ould not be difficult It would involve common excavation t hrough out its length except for approximately 2 000 lineal feet which would be in broken lava rock Along the alinement sidehill slopes would vary from 10 to G5 percent with t he average being bont 20 percent Clear ing requirements tlong the right of way would be light The first section of t he canal with an initial capacit y of 20 second feet and a lengt h of 68 800 feet would ext end from the terminus of the Basalt conduit t o the nort h bank of C t tle Creek The canal would cross Ie Creek bv inverted siphon Catt A rliversion dam and short feeder canal with a of 140 second feet would be pro ity vider OJI Cat tle Creek to divelicapa flows of I1mt stream into the Landis canal at t he outlet to the lle t Ca Creek siphon The first sect ion of cana l would be made COl1ere lined open canal te up of 2l440 inenl feet of sect ion 1 450 lineal feet of concrete hench flume 600 lineal feet of con 3801 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO 109 siphon 64 310 lineal feet of unlined cllnal sect ion 1 000 lineal feet of unlined feeder ditch and the Cattle Creek diversion works spillway trunouts road and stren 111 crossings etc The second t ion of the canal with an initial capacity f 140 sec ond feet and It length of 68 930 feet would extend from the ontlct of t he Cattle Creek siphon across Coulter Creek where it would be joined a shalt canal from that stream across Mesa Creek by in feeder by verte d siphon to the Landis Creek A diversion dam would be pro vided on Coulter Creek at the head of the noted feeder canal This section of canal would be comp ised of 68 180 lineal feet of unline canal se ti n 600 feet of concrete siphon 150 feet of concrete canal section at the Coulter Creek crossing the Coulter Creek diversion dam cunal spillways tunlouts road a nd stream crossings etc The thi d and last section of the Landis cll nal with a capacity of 50 secrmd feet wonld extend 11 650 feet from the inlet to the Landis It would be Creek siphon to the outlet of the Spring Valley siphon feet 250 4 comprise f 7 400 lineal feet of unlined canal section an d of concrete siphon turnouts etc crete The Spri 9 V alley Bench lateral This lateral woul consist of 15 000 linea foot of unlined ditehes The tUlllonts etc to serve project lands on the Spring Valley Bench lnte ral system would have an initial capacity of 50 second feet S tocknuNL s ditch extension and enlargernent The Stockman s ditch ei ension a nd enl rgement1 with a capacity f 1O second feet would head at the termlllus of the Basalt eondlllt rass t he Roaring Fork Valley by a combination of a concrete chul 4 500 feet in length and a 4 000 foot welded steel siphon am dis charge into t he existing Stockman s ditch on the point of the ridge separat ing tile lower Sarris Creek drainage from the I oaril1g Fork A di Om Fl that point the existing ditcll would be enlarged alley yersion structure and feeder ditch would be provided nt the Sopris The o ernll length of the Stockman s dite h would be Creek crossing approximately 8 miles Sidehill slopes along t he alin me nt va from 0 to 60 percent and a verage about 25 pere ent Clearmg requirements would be ight and most of the exeU atlOll is classed as com mOll Fann 111Hl road elilverts t llrnouts spillways stream CrOs illgs etc would be l roided AdditionallateraZs In aadition to existing ht eral and ditch systems in the project area and the Spring Valley Bench lateral it is estimated t hat some 15 ternl la system would be needed to serve t he new lineal miles of new 1 lllds project COST E8TI1 iI l YS tl nn COSt8 The cOI1struct ion cost for t he Basalt project exclusi e f cost for storage in Rnedi Reseryoir is estimated at 10 543 440 based on July Con f 1059 If pvices Details of the construction costs are tabulated helow 3 8 0 1UEDI 110 Cost estimate Basalt ExcavatIon COlnm m In earth seet lon 20 pereent toDes and hould r5 Cllons and lined sl Common III bench llUlll Sandstone rock In bench flume sectlou 1fl 228 000 do 7 350 IO L n H lll n l H SO lIl ert culverL nn n n nn Rclnforl ing n n 1 Inch o to lnch lge g n n n n gage un nn n n nn n 1 034 000 254 OflO 13 000 1 896 000 Oa u s 48 lnch L P 3f incb L P IS Inch L P un 7 root throat Ii loot tbroatn n nnn nn nnn do 60 00 441 000 Llnearroot 70 00 231 nn nn 3 footthroaL 12 lnch Ulfoatn n nn n nn n n nn nn n Strllcture nn n Cornpactillit OmvellJedding lined cnnaLn nn n n n n nn n n nnn MI cell lneous and culverts farm and county rOiLds Brldg l erA L I 1 Cattle Creek diversion dam and beadwork Coulter Creek dh ersion 13m and headworks Sopris Creek llversion dam an l he3dworks n n l stimlltod con plus 20 l n n n n n plus n Engineering administration and verccnt pillS or rnillus nn o n or lllWUS erhead 18 n n n 11000 00 n I 1 n n 1 h nn 400 00 300 00 130 00 2 400 GOO 16 000 n n do UO do nn n n 50 00 680 00 500 00 190 00 n 4 080 500 1 700 2 do do don n 53 000 01 000 30 000 2O OOO l 20 000 30 000 64 000 64 000 30 000 nn n L S n n 2 000 00 nn Eachnnn ndO do l 00 300 00 d Cubic n n nn 64 000 01 64 000 00 30 000 00 nn nn nn 58 621 1 351 720 6 n nnn n nnn n 80 20 00 don don 1 00 13 4 0 0 00 00 do 13 liOO JOt 000 10 400 379 200 POllndnn 00 MlIe n ttllctlon eost erC1 nt 53 000 17 000 000 h n n 1 1 00 8 40 1 00 nn n 130 nnn n 00 do ndo don don n 00 all 750 I4 lOO 9 000 21 840 35 00 00 n 1 8 I nn nnn nnn n n nnn 1000 130 nnn n n 2 n Backfill n n n nnn 0000 00 plus 30 Total esUmated cost or water deU ery acUIties I 17 500 2 583 900 u EBCbmhu n nn n u n nn n n nn h nnn Measurlngflumes Hasalt 1 3fj8 OOU 29 550 7 00 SUO n n n H Incb 2 0000 0000 nnn 2 imh weJoled steel pipe el pipe stl 24 j11CIl welded ork ll met r I C lIl1 neous Suhtot ll n OIl 1 50 87 00 tun 10 1 nn nnn nn 00 n nn n n n n un n n n 3 310 1 050 4 3011 n n n n Hn Steel Total ZOO 2 f unn Concrete pipe Cont1llgenci OIj OOO i5 n ao 1 700 2 Bench flumetrnns anchors and saddles rell1rn canal se ctiQn amI mJsceUaoeoU5 structw es 10 50 do clon 700 2 j lQ Hoek instrLlctures inrb 4t 31inch 2 lnrh IS inch 30 inch yard Cubic CODCtctC i2 lnch H price Zfi7 OOO Hl Total Unit Unit 810 000 lm o instructures C HlHlg project Kumber ofUutt5 ConstructlQIl item r fmnl COLO RESERVOIR DAM AND n n n h un n u Un n nn n n nn n n n 8 110 340 2 433 100 13 440 10 5 project Except Sprlng Valle r Beach lateral included in deta1100 estlUUlta st8 CO main e7l1mce arul repla ement and replacement costs of maintenance annual Estimated operation These costs are based on detailed thc Basalt project are 43 000 studies recently prepared by the Bureau of Reclamation for a poten tial project in western Colorado aI proximately equuJ in size and with similar storage and deli very facilIties as those of the Basalt project A breakdown of this estimated cost is tabulated below Operation RUEDI 3803 DAM Estimated amlual operatiol Bailed on lCel1 ent costs rCpl maintenance alld i9 average 1956 l 111 COLO RESERVOIR AND prices Personnel 20 000 00 12 000 00 Equivrnen t Materials and supplies Adminlstra tive 5 000 00 4 000 00 50 000 00 Adjustment for operation exIsting facilities in project maintenanc e find replacement costs nere foot and maintenance due to of wnter r 1 000 ncre feel CHAPTER III W A TIn eam St 7 000 00 minus Increased operat ion Cost per on 43 000 00 projecL 83 WATER SUPPLY RESOURCES and wale 8hed The principal source of water for the Basalt pl is the Frying Oject Cattle Coulter pan River at the damsite for the Ruedi ReselToir and Sopris Creeks would also contribute to the project water supply The Fryingpau River tributary to the Roaring Fork of the Colo radoRiver rises on the western slope of the Sawo tch Mountains where snowfall is heavy and the snowmelt period lasts well into the irriga tion season Cattle Coulter and Sopris Creeks have lower watersheds that produce relatively low unit runoff The Fryingpan River water shed above the Ruedi Reservoir damsit e yields on all average approxi mately 900 acre feet per square mile Runoff from the watersheds of Cat tle Coulter and Sopris Creeks above the points of diversion to project lands averages Jess thall 400 acre feet pel square mile Stream runoff records Stream runoff records for st reams used for the studies are tabulated below Strealn dischargc recol dl1 used in Basalt project Btrl am nod location It project ote water supply st1uly 1lpply 8 Avai1f1blerecord lo ar DrI il in square miles lfIrlng R Fork River fit at Basalt i Fr lngpfm River eg l a6 ood Springs Colo OIen u Colo o OI 20 1951 J i 1I6oio Cattle Creek fit Middle Brldgo Coulter Creek at mouth at West Coulter Cred moutb East Coulter Creek aL mouthn n Iocr to present 909 h n hn n u n nn nnn nu n nn n 48 941 1 460 0 272 0 5 0 2 0 1 29 1941 48 48 1941 18 941 nn u 21 7 hm m 13 2 3804 112 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO recoT dB Ditch dive rsion in tl e PFoject areD are generally R urds of il l igatio diversion l During t he sprmg when runoff lS lugh dlVerSlon records are poor virtually nonexistent The heeome progressively better as st ream flow decreases and approprmt ors call upon the Vater Commissioner In genernl the streams uter rights for exacting administ ration of furnishing the present water supply for lands in t he project area are 1t is only durinii t he highest runoff periods that over appropriated Because of the location of diversion works all ditches receive water it is often possible for junior appropriators to divert direct and return flow while senior appropriators upstream are completely without water WATER C 001 j wnpti l e 1 REQUIREMENTS e Basa t project area The consumpt i 0 use of water on lands in t he derived by graphical interpolation between data for Aspen and Use for each of Glenwood Springs Colo climatological stations these stations wa plotted versus the stntiOllS elevation Assuming an elevat ion of 7 000 feet to be average for the project lands t he 1nds would be 1 57 feet durlllg t he irril l consumptiyc u e on these l tion SNtsnTl The irrigation season would extend from about May 10 through September 30 Vinter eonsumpt i e nse is generally sup plied hy Tl onirrigation season precipitation and will not affect the water requirement to be pl o ided by t his projfd was Diversion 1 eq uirements A di ersion requirement of 3 2 acre feet per acre for the project was obtaillp d by modifying a conslImptive use of 1 57 feet per acre as obtained from the Engineerinlr Advisory Commit tee report to t he Upper Colorado Ri er Basin Compact Commission for the varied effects of precipitation surface waste dee p vercolation losses and canal and lateral losses The effect of precipitation was estimated as the I1verage prec ipitation during the irrigation season for t he 5 driest years of record at Aspen Colo or 0 37 foot makinO t he consumpti e 11 e of irrigation water by the project 1 2 acre fe per acre Con sllerillg SUrfll e waste deep percolation and farm lateral losses it was e timated thnt the applicat ion effieieney of the project would a erage 50 percent and that t he farm ae livery requirement would 40 The canal nnd lateral losses acre feet per acre thereforel be 2 were est imatetl at 25 percent of t he diversion requirement or 0 80 acre feet pel ere foot elopmfmt of farm deli ery and dierted De diversion l equil eJllents for the project are tabulated below RUEDI 3805 DAM project diversion Basalt ere F fflctl lonth Consuffip tiCIlSC e 113 COLO RESERVOIR AND requ iremcnt feet acrel prccipitll con mp tin U J tion irrigat on Fo rmdl lh cry re Applicn I Diversion CODve equiT tiollhJsses quiremcnt 4 028 2 m 54 O IS 20 Q 4R 92 20 18 06 10 l 1J I4 O 811 3 ID fs Wee meat los water 1nYl 0 17 J 3L Junc 6 30 17 t1sL uj Scl 01 3 U 1 July lerntJer l 57 TotaLhmj I 0 O 3S oq 12 27 06 3fj 1 27 05 31 20 1 20 36 2 72 WATER RIGHTS Pre8ent water rights The direct flow rights out of the main stem of le Creek other Catt than project rights total 152 58 second feet adjudicated to 22 ditches On Mesa Creek foul ditches have rights totaling 32 6 second feet On Coulter Creek there are nine ditches wit h 16 2 second feet of decreed rights On Sopris Creek some 25 ditches including 1 for transbasin diversion to the Crystal River drainage have been decreed 150 65 second feet of direct flow and 212 acre feet for storage in the Crystal River Basin The table fol1owing pre sents pert inent data on the ei ht l eservoirs in the Cattle Creek Basin three of these are sufficient lv large Onl to be of Ilny impOItance Alljud lCatcd storage riuhta from Cattle Creek and I lt r N meotrpscn olr SourCE ofsupp y h ibutariea distrlrt prJOrit I DatP or ueCT e Ko MOl1ur h nffst lm hnnnc l ConsolirlM d IJ cbnn McNu1ty i I tF t V ab OI WatPrs Spriog u st N 2 ofr tn channell ofl llUl strt lrk P u InwwIl June 3 Fen 15 T rr Creek C e k 10 A jo East Coulter Crl ck llAA Cattle Creek 12A oo n n so l far 8 SB fg n m u 6 CrL E Ks t1 Rml Wcst Coultt oo IS I 1 1ls ounHelghtsJ l I Tho deCll O of Fuh i5 1921 grrmt d n 1941 rniSlA th wijudl lted cuXlotlty of b9f tJrc P Il l WR t tlon 18 IS95 005 HI1 32 15 lE1 i9 1595 553 11 3T 10 19 SC pt 23 1918 17 2 823 No IO n d2 IV I olr A drCTee of Df c 19 the groullIlS that the original rlcn on iJlrTor TlJis rescn OlT Corn i SOUI lrin SJ of 248 llCrll f t fnr thl fret wIth thl sume prIority J po cll c locTe approprio o ere fret CattlC I ost nor filul Shlp p Amount or COlD Is brJiel ed to be smaller thaD this k1 rom cot S l Ie decre B adJunlcatcd approprinl1on wd other recmds 11 lhe offlcc If fli I lD i r nglueer Ol nwoodl 1143806 Project wMer I AND DA RUEDl RESERVOIR COLO rigMs it was assumed bhat owners of lands would be willing t re strict their use of water to ideal demaud m order to obtalll a regulated late season sup IY Water over and above ideal requirement for present irrigated ands would be hstnbuted to llonlrrlga ted lands or yould be regu lated in available storage for project Use Only those rights on Cattle Creek proper Coulter Creek and Sopris Creek downst ream from the project water delivery f tcilities wuJd be atfe te d As previously er Vater ConservatlOll DIstrIct stated In cktpt el I t be Colorado RI has obtained in t he Gnrfield County DistI jet COlllt a conditional t flow right in f he Fryingpan River et of dee rea for 450 second fp dire at the Ruedi Resen oir damsite 170 second feet of direct flow in Cattle o sccDnd feet Creek 170 second feet of dircct flow in Coulter Creek of direct flow in Sopris Creek and 140 G07 3 acre feet of storage right in the Rnedi Reservoir on the Fryingpan River In workinO out this water project study rights for project l WATER PreRe fI STIJTHES of wn ter for irrigation fmy f al IY irrigators n t1H 1M ll ect urea have adequate of llTlgatlOn water axaIlable at a I tImes when It IS needed In L Ulds in the Missouri Heights area are extremely short of water genera l these lands cease to reeeive direct flow water by or before t he midclle of Jlme and snbsequently they receive not more than 1 acre foot per acre from storage Their total snpply on this basis averages about 59 percent of t he ideal demand As an average present irri gated lands in the project are do not rooeive more than appro i water supply Idea IIlJ1tely 60 percent of an Very supply proj Project operation studies The following studies demonstrate the bilit y of the planned proj rve the project lands along with the Ruedi Reservoir t and the 1075 lllulllcipal and industrial r uirements relating to the oil shale industry in the Rifle De Beque are during a critic l drought This period beginning in 1053 and ending in 1057 was lod pel climaxed by an ext remely low runoff year 1954 It was selected be ect facilities it is supported by accurate records of the mnotf in Cattle Creek the study period llSed to detennine the 1975 muni ipalltnd lal mdustl water requirements in the Rifle De Beque area for the oil shale industry whieh requirements were determined in t he Cameron Jones r port also appended with this report to the Fryingpan Arkan sas project report The following tables present 1 The combined irrigation season runoff of Cattle CDulter and Sopris Creeks at points of diversion for project lands 2 Estimated stm able nonirrigation season l lUloff in Cattle UJld Coulter Creeks in eight existing reservoirs cause nd was 3807 RUEDI RESERVOIR DAM AND 115 COLO Total project diversion requirement gation requirement satIsfied from natural flow of Caltle Coulter and Sopris Creeks and from stored nonil riga t ion season runoff of those streams in existing reservoirs 5 Project demand for Ruecli Reservoir storage and anibble 3 4 l Il River at the Ruedi Dam site operation st udy for the Ruedi Resenoir to supply required municipal and industrial nee ls of 1075 for t he oil shale industry in the Rifle De Beque area and for the Basalt direct flow in the 6 A simulated Frying Pan project TAIlLE I Com bined irrigation 8eason runoff of Cattle Coulter atId Sopri8 Creeks at poin is of d L er8ion for projcot lands 1 000 lUnlt I Ilteryear 19 3 1 14 i 19 n n 1956 feetJ July June 3 un hn n TABLE 2 I May acro 0 2 1 8 4 I September August 2 0 1 2 0 4 1 3 1 1 6 0 4 0 4 7 1 6 Estimated storable 1wnirrigation season Creeks in eight existing I OOO Ulllt Water year Total 0 6 5 15 1 6 11 0 4 in Cattle and Coulter rU7Ioff reser vo irs acre ft Storable 1953 4 2 1954 1955 3 3 4 2 1956 4 2 TABLE 3 Total diversion Unlt fay requirement for 19 960 acres l OOO acre ft 3I 15 9 18 19 14 2 June July ugu8t SepteDlber Total 2 4 2 4 8 64 0 Irrigation requirement satisfied from natural flow of Cattle Coulter TABLE 4 and 80prill Creeks and from stored nonirrigaticm secuon runoff 01 those stream in e ri8tif1 J reservoir3 1 000 acre Unit Year 1951 5 1015 l M 954 n M 311 YI 3 8 3 82 I J ft July J 8 1 1 2 3 1 7 1 2 September USt AUl 0 0 6 I I 6 6 fotllol 9 3 2 13 6 15 2 3S0S 116 RUED DAM in tho Fryingpan River at the RuetH Dam Unlt fay lm Y a 1Jailab c D 3 9 0 1 0 1953 direct Cow sHe I 000 llCre rl July June 531 955 l56 t COLO Project demo nll for Ruedi RC3enJoir 8toraye and TABLE 5 10501 RESJ RYOIR AND Au u lO n J7 2 15 3 18 f1 18 1 3 8 13 8 13 I 138 I l81 18 S Total ptomb 2 2 7 2 3 2 3 2 2 8 50 4 Simulated operation study for the Rucdi RelJenoir If sUflP1V TABLE a 48 8 I w uirt 1 m1micipal and ind1l strial needs of 1915 for the oil shale ind tH try in the Rifle De Beque l arm a tor the project salt Ba Unlt I I Year O 9M l 1 HI 3 u u n n L n u IL ClLrryo Input er III Rnedi W O 65 5 7 S o to storagu I I I SfI 8 2 00 65 I 1 l 000 llCre feet Dypnss l vnilav e or mUDid lal lld r In lnstrial wllter u ti 10 3 7 2 9 I 1 StlJrnge nlle J r es luirl d rormunil i I Storll releMes p ll and imluslTllll 30 BllSlllt roject sortugll t proje water 1 26 5 13 fj d Rl re roir nlQuil roc pills Bll Jlt 1 1 55 8 50 1 0 0 0 0 0 15 1 14 U e operation st ndis supported oy and extelHls tIle oper ut ion prepa l ed for t he Ruedi R e r oir as a part of the Fryingpan Arkansas 11111 Fryillgpan AJ ktlnsl ls IJIojfft study demoll projoct strates on a mOIl llly basis t he storable flow of t he FryingpaTl Rivp r at the Ruedi Hesel voir and the total U PU aL t he Huedi Dam for downstrea m irrigation for I llt for Fl ying pun Arka nsas project diersion and for reqUIred fish flows The abO e operatioll study demonstrates the ability of the Hl1edi Hc ermil to satisfy t he 11d demft for t he ItBasa project o er and abon the suppl irrigat ion obta inable from Cattle Coulter and Sopris Crcok and t he municipal and indust rial l C luirements for water for the oil sllllle industry in the Rifle De Beque area as of 1D75 and 15 developed in the C On unel Jones It takes a hantnge of fish release to supply report p ut of the lllUnicipa l and indust al requirement whe n snch releases are in eXCeRS of the estima ted historical flow of the Fryingpan Ri er at th HU ed Damsite In ma king this study it vas assumed that at the beginning of operation year 1 the Reucli Resen oir would contain fill O I aele 1D5 feet of carryover storag e This assnmpLioll is justified by t lle fa ct that in ter wa year 1952 the yill Fr Tmn Hive runoff wa s above 110l lllid and tho Fryillgp n Arkansas J roject operation study for the ai He er Hue voir shows that in t hat year 130 000 acre feN were availnhle for stor A 1H57 storable inflow of 188 200 iICl P fpet olllcl ohyiously end age the crit lcal period st udied ed 011 the Ba year opeJ ation period llge el preceded and followed by yea rs of fulI supply the t Oje pt The nbo study eplncem 380 9 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR 117 COLO cre feet per ll nnum or 12 p lce t would approximate 7 700 n maximum shortage of a pproximately 24 percent occnrrmg In 1 55 More det ile l otmlies of the B salt project will undoubtedly demonstmt th t these shortages would be eliminated by reuse of e return flow from the Basalt projeet for slltisfying the demand for some of the lower diversions in t he 1 and for supplymg a llre f roject and of the i lal n dustl part mUllieipal requirement in the HIlle De Beque area thereby decreasing such demllnd on Reudi Reservoir shortage with It storage tream depletion The additioual stream depletion that would occur aB a result of t he planned development for t he Huedi Reservoir would average approxi feet per annum cre mately 23 000 u Ojeat P1 CHAPTER IV PROJECT LANDS SOIU3 The soils of the projec t have been developed under the controlling influence of a semiarid eontinenta l clinUlte As a result the soils ure Wer lo in orgnnic content t hun soils developed under a wl1l meralld more hwnid climate The org Lnic content i however above a verage as reel tothat of other soils in westem Colorado compa Most of the soils llre allavial and have been developed from t he Maroon formation Basaltic boulders in small amounts are sCllttered in the soil mantle throughout the project lrea Soil colors rllnge from bluck to reddish brown topsoils to pale brown subsoils Soil textures range from JaanlS to light clays The most soil is a good friable elay loam more t Iw n 5 feet in depth prevalent The permeability of the soils is very good tnd the soils are very pro ductive unner irrigation a nd are irveellayt producti e under dry fann in the lower n refls Under conditions the soils ing operations virgin Scrub onk brush is support a rank growth of sa gchrush und grass the native co er a t higher eleY ltions except on the rough intervening nreas where pinon pine and jnniper are found 4 PH y TOPOOR The lands the project area lie genemlly above the lower Valley The western part of the Catt le Creek area is situa ted on n high bench oyerlooking that vaHey and is divided into a north and sout h area by a canyon formed by the lower reaches of Colt tie Creek To the sOIlt h of the canyoll lies Missouri Heights an nndulat ing t blebLlld which slopes principally to the Roaring Fork 1nds L to the north of the ca nYOJ1 also slope t oward t he Roariug Fork I y comprising Roaring Fork but separated from t he are Ijig her ltulds to t he e t by 11 hll ge un lls381 Q RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO East of these t rough known us Spring Valley luml ruc dmincd st b t we m benchlancls the te rrain slopes westward from the divide of t hese htnds ure Fork Some the and Roaring Cottonwood Creek In lLl geneI situated in the valley of Cuttle Creek and its tributaries of the establishment tQ properly sized farm the lands lend themselves Elevation of the project lands varies from about 6 500 to 7 400 wlits feet ahoye sea le eJ DRAIN AGE The project lands have good natural drainag as is e idenced by The presently i1 in the area over 50 years of successful irriga t ion ahout 1 to 60 percent of an ideal water received have rigatecllands few tracts in the val supply and only in Spring Valley and on a Creek was any poor drllinage found Coulter and Creek of Cattle ley No la rge increase of poor drainage would be anticipated to exist water supply except in Spring Valley because the area a full under These drainage has many well dispersed natul ul dra illa cways to wide swales ent frOlll deep canyollb y sloping deep ways vary that contain the intermittellt and perennial st rea IlIl flowing through t he area They vury in depth from about G to over 50 feet are gen less tllan a mile a part aJld are gelleral throughout tho et ally spaced area Soil profiles as shown by exposed areas such as gullies and all the scarps of t he benches show the soils to be in most cases verv which is generally bedrock Tile deep to an impervious btrrier water moves down through the pf rmeable soil mantle and when it come3 in contact with the impervious balTier it moves out into the nat ural drainageways which remove the water from the ar a There are some acre ges of poor drainage found in Spring Valley in T 6 S R 88 Y Seepage and runotl from the higher areas have in this flat valley tble resulted in a high water t 3811 RUED DAM AND ALKAl INIl Y RESERVOIR AND COLO 119 SALINITY ry and salinitv of soils in the area as a whole are Y S placed in a nOIHLrnble class be None of the project area w 1 muse of t hese t wo factors Tests showed the presence of lime cal cium carbollate in quite huge amounts in most of the soil samples J low lkalinity LAND CLASSIFICATION Fieldwork for a lund classification sun ey of reconnaissance scope lands was conduct ed in l05i by the Grand Junction the Bureau of Reclamation On the basis of soils topo graphic and drainage conditions prevalent in the area four land classes were established and are described as follows Class 1 Land highly suitable for irrigation farming capable of producing at reasonable cost sustained yields of climatically of t he office 0 frojeet adapted crops Class 2 Lands being modemtely suitable for irrigation farming expeasive t o prepare and operate than class 1 lands Lands of limited product ivity arlaptable to the produc more Class 4 pasture grasses l ud meadow hay Class 6 Lunds permanently nonarable The Bureau soil teclmologist in charge of this work estimated that a more detltiled sur ey of the project Ia nds would show about 60 per cent of t he lands placed in class 4 under this investigation would be placed in Glass 8 and would therefore not be lilllited in use The other 40 percent of the class 4 la nds would be limited to use for t ion of pasture Land classification stand mls under which the project survey was marle are presented in the table on the following page In keeping wit h the accurac y of a reconnaissance type SUtTey the laorl areas were traversed at inten als of 1 mile or less according to the needs of each area Borings with a soil auger ext ending to a depth of 5 feet where possIble were supplemented with data obtained from open pits and soil profiles exposed ill gullies u u gra vel or cobhle u Land ch6ra ctcristics TOlture Jld Tosll terilll l e lime similnrm penetrau zon vc u getil u iu cach inHwre to rock IlIlU To shu e raw soil from shall orsimlbrOJatE ri31 GiD less Depth To loose rocks and AlIr ll linity init Sa Slopes Surfuce Co r tion Land Sundy loam iu pILlS LSS1 Cl lable clay loam in with minimum produc or I 30 36 clay or p lIS IOIlJnKs in 14iu P O illug drll SOIL very s2 ClfL to Jvel gT 42 in lld or Jl thl l3r3ble om perDleahle l swr PllSture 1 to slowly perm mhle u land class ficalion 8UrVey Ss Clll l my S8D LO cla w sandy loam 6 in of w ll weathcr d soil with loam or hcu ier t turc ofl and l1ure le J2 18 In 1I1th Jighter th or careous eVluenC6 l bsent to 30 in 01 r Ilticipatcd ll penetrll ule cxc l per lrriga 0 un ss soil iscll 1 tntll l salts are 10 lUlU alkali bluck und Total snits nOl to cent Up 11 1 of irri ation without subsur ur rock lim e lllOunt round per l plL elingurgradillg f ptil C SUS llt under favllr11 blil to lJ lforC lnditioDS of the other factors hlln in C llrcent irri rea but in re Surfn llllssihltl for good irrigated ture withlO the aroa lied to tbe l usonably 4 rrquirrd prodllctinty lth 24 30 ill when soilsll re heavy Gr tu with miulIuum Im llph is flat or humTllocky pO overlyinl 24 in on smooth sloJ s l rial or mat e s gradieDL r e du found feasiblE at TadiilJ f l1t to pH 9 0 penctrahl i in less liDless soil is e31 snits arc low and tot ith48io or deunditioll5 r TOPOGRAPHY I up to t gradient in Smooth slopes SillUll whi h T1 geD tirrs Iici Slll and somLu e CDst in gJ lpd areas amounts atCl Modl l ar siu j bodies 510ping in th lurg 11 aou or rougher slopes genera ent pcr pernwahle soils ami under good 01 ulllck alkali fJ vidn ausl nt c d 0 5 per ex Totli Llts oot to n cent lllny he higher ill op careOllS pH loamy frell working soil H in plus good of tine andy lonm or htlll Vler of samiy h1llUl to 4 Ill Loamy sand classification spccificalioltS for reconnaissance to or 5 36 iD plus good IreE workIng soil or tine slmdy OllJIl or heavier or in orsandy loam l2 off GOio penetrable rnollify l snUI 1 practICes cultllr I of Ij lu or of Tavel overlYing im mdvloal11 porVifll1S perviOllSlllotcrilllor througllollt with Win throughout 18io ss soil is ca l pH lpss than 9 0 unl J1 tot salts arc low IUHj careous e alkali 01 black ll idem ubsE llt Total salts Dot to exceed 0 2 per 00 lliglwr In open r good uDd lY Dl permeable SOlis ami eent drainagecondi1l0us Smooth slopes up to 4 prrcent iu aso nnbly g hro l gradIent ill th arge sized bodies sloping in sallie plane or to 11l sm Ewm enough to r Quirl only leveling and no heavy grading l Ulount Insu1licicnt cost or flllg clf livity with cultur l pr3C interrcr u but at l aring rCQwr cust moderat SsH l CI Loamy sand Loamy sand pl llll clay lunDl Orchard to friable 12 in in 24 in plus c io l phI plus heavlt r deeper with 48 or mOrl ur Sa ndy Joam o in r UJllllJ or tral lf 12 io pH less than 8 S slofXs UlJ to gradient or lJ heavy grading re 15 per perre11l in rougher Tott l salts not to exceed 0 3 per cent KIth Sm g n ml or may Le l ss than slope lecling Quir d o rent No aLlc ILUo No rock in Cl large loose rOk plll ell i1y removlible limited to that lIlJdS in orC genera lly deared in tban rocks Ie area Numerou w1I am ed 6 in in diurneter MId itb soil throughout profile are 0 J t U 0 0 t pr ti I ra Ild l SoiL topogr pb J l Class 6 NOll lying withIn large bodies requirement IS Soil o nri tl opOgC llhic sucb lhat no sr clfic age c m rtitlons dmill aril1 antiCipated pbic ontliti lDpljgT llls ctro inagu bco required l ut some farm DRAINAGE lhA t Soil and ucb lllS me Il Quireme nts of tbe next reclamatIOn by llrtifichll sihlo feu at ap firiDg ahle cost ill pribnbl wltb so roo indudes lands which do Dot meet the minimum abll of nonllro hle land l nonll I JSs cl mcnt i1 and 1il 5 SlIch higher nu a p n d llilticJpat ldrEilgoi arN S of arable land Well drained to 5 ft depth W survey and small licul QuJre topograpbic conditiDns Jt th mapped in l O v a en o l 0 o t 122 RUEDI 3Q tttJ ssified areas DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO land boundaries ditches and section lines were delineated in the field on aerial photogra phs having an corrections and rectifications of approximate scale of 1 12 000 Scale and perti dIstortions in the photographs as Wen as the classification 1 12 000 scale to base t ransferred were data maps nent irrigated photographic Each map was prepared to Abrams vertical sketch master the and grid control on the base maps cOYer one fourth of a township Soil profile was established from respective general land office plats data were recorded on t he backs of the aerial photographs with an PROJECT LANDS Results of the project land classificat ion in the follow ng table by Wnships to are presented I T T s f perf l8 a R D 87 T roduclil Lfo L Tfltll Irrip b n earrll a tarrnst ds fs msipa 15 rOw Location r or e Less 2 prrcrnt rt TotaL Cnltlc Creek UTes Si T 6S R T 6S R 8S V w T 6S n 7 S R 87 w R b8 W T 7 S lrlsarr BO B for ro l Irrlil lIbl Tol lIt ft r Lr I2 pcrccnt 5lilleT LrE 1 E 3 NojrctprorJllctll carea rroductivc Totn h u C1 Land ls cl Inld ss2 CIs In IIcrp IrrIgated 1 Total Qificalion oj Qmblc and irrigablc oll l I Clas I i7 2 180 4 1 areas SS CI3 lss2 CL 14 i I C ted Xonlnig a s ToLaI flrnnd tola 8 5 106 1 l38 0 15 126 5 I 648 177 0 287 7 l fi 5 7 1 1 7 0 19 05 518 5 12 8 38 8 2ll 31 19 2 1 l l rM 211 579 0 200 3 61 1t1 Q 1 015 4 541 0 4 10 5 81 3 1 8 6 186 2 l t9J 41 5 3 149 3 m l 1 2 205 1 581 1 20 018 2 400 4 113 1 i 7 0 6 187 0 1 91 9 1 H 3t i 267 l M7 S 1 H O 5 2 18 44D 0 3 15 9 1 6M 8 8 1H2 9 72 3 13 230 7 0 11 5 i38 5 8 446 OO 593 1 3Z 5 11 1 7 lJ4 2 140 0 i i IZ3 i 3 l7 2 972 0 1 294 5 0211 8 HHI 5 2 16 3 34 1 7 4 594 7 10 2 34 f M2 6 332 5 2 0 32 26 16 3110 7 5 322 0 35 1 O 5 0 f 13 531 4 2 199 2 1 5 210 1 I 5 9 94 1 i 6 77 8 6 427 9 10 2 006 3 00 100 0 502 270 56 0 1 23 1 1 232 1 1 1 l 098 8 1 217 Hi2 7 0 7 0 152 9 132 9 5 1 081 1 34 1 2 0 0 37 1 32 1 w 00 c C 1I o l o t 4 381 b T24 RUED AND DAM CHAPTER V RESERVOIR COLO AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INTRODUGI ION agricultural economy of the Basalt project has been analyzed of largely tlu ough the use of seconda data Soils climate type The iilt and crop fJelds of the i project area are smular to of the Basalt project area Therefore the agricultural economy of the project was base d on the Dry Elk Valley area of the Silt project with the data used in this analysis taken from and supported by the basic agricnltural datIL presented in the Silt project report Prices paid find received by hrmers as presented in the Silt report were based on the 44 price level For purposes of this study 1939 were converted to the long term level of and received prices pILid 100 215 191O 14 by use of appropriate eonversion factors as rec ommended bv the Subcommittee on Benefits and Costs of the Federal Interagency R iver Basin Committee Because the economic analysis of this project is of a reconnaissance nature its primary purpose should be to determine the f asibility for continued studies of this project Therefore the benefits an i repa ment as determined are infol1nation and should not be used triesconlancel adequate only for in a n aut horizing report lUltil vel fied by data collected for this Ticulture a those specific project The table below presents a comparison of the Basalt project and the Silt project with respect to slIch physical elements as elevation mean a rmual tempera ture anJlual preCIpitation frost free period etc Comparison of Basa lt project and Silt project Colorado DrrElk Valley Slit projrct I Item t K l rll rost erIWe l ie temper aturi Anlllml Land class perc ent of CldSSL Class2 6 F I n In precipitlltlOnoooo area irrigabll oo oo Estimated sis or dat 7 000 u 3 JI30 Ul 5 o 52 II ii E t 111 on l 00 475 oo from stl lion at Riliu CO 4 3 3 C 3 2 Il OD is or lata rom t tion at Olenwood bll pring s Colo Weathl r Bureau datn pr senteti In The Report or the the Upper Cl lorado River DllSln Cl rnJ ct CommIssion i dated Nov 2 I pruject 140 11 2 S u oo t r o free period 1asRlt Estimated Based on 1f ering Engl I Advisory CommLtwe to H8 Negllgible REPAY fENT ANALYSIS The maj r of farming consider d to be representative of the rpe t Basalt project IS general livestock It IS based on mixed land class consisting of 52 percent class 2 lands 29 percent class 3 and 19 per eent class P It is estimat d t hat approximately 60 percent of the lands wlthm the BILs lt project ILrea which are presently classified llS 4P UJlder reconnaissance standards would meet class 3 specifica hons under a detailed or semidetailed land classification Therefore 3817 RUED DAM AND 125 COLO RESERVOIR for purposes of this study about GO percent of the lands classified the approXllilate Ulllt 4P are treated as class 3 in determinin for this project fication A cl of land repayment ability summary is presented below as Summary at I Land clllS lands by land closs Full tion 1 L iP TotaL I FigurE S sbown ice present prOttuctlve arca llDd exclude l percent for Total Ltirriiogn servlc ldJ1ds 10 32 42 5 322 4 9211 3 280 ZOi 0 10 6 9 5 i79 13 r m ntal Supp li irri n bods 2 I 0 6 423 farmsteads roads 3 720 UI etc Type of farming The major type of farming followed in the Basalt project area is general livestock The erop production on project lands is limited by elevlltion and length of growing season to alfalfa small grains pasture and potatoes The analysis of this project is based on live stock production being the principal enterprise A representative farm is supported by livestock feeds includiug hay pasture a nd small grain as the principal crops with farm flock sheep being the main enterprise on the faml It should be noted tht effort has been made to include in the repayment determination the ability of those lands del oted to the production of potatoes With further studies of tillS project however production of potatoes and vomble dairying should bo included and should have a fll bearing upon the financialllJlalysis no Eize of farm Data taken from a study conducted by representatives of the Colo M College on the Roaring Fork Basin of which this project rado A is a part indicate that at present the average fa rm contains 105 acres The average irrigated acreage would probably of irrigated land be increased with development of this project Because the economio studies of this I roject have been based on data as presented in the com n1 consists of 132 acres of ir pleted Silt proJect report the size of fttl rigable land and is of a mixed land class This size of farni is thought tmily with a reasonable livmg to be adequate to provide the fann f allowance and leave some funds available for debt retirement Water S ppVy The water supply for this project is based on an ideal canal diver sion requirement of 3 2 acre feet per acre a present shortage on sup with shortage Water neglig 1ble plemental lands of 40 percent and a supply studies indicate the unit lands would at no time suffer a water shortage large enough to api reciably affect the repayment ability A slllnmary of water supply for fullllnd supplemental service lands of this project is presented below Slg DAM AND RUEDl COLO RESERVOIR QI project water supply Summa Full s rvlre land ent Pm ater SI1r 13 531 Pro luctl e flCr811ge Diversion requirement IOiLhin It1enl dentll nd 3 2 Total Sllpplemenlnl ice hnd 6 428 3 2 19 95D h n r suppf Pert nt ere feet p acre 1 92 12 342 h ratnl 8 re feet Increase provide hy unit C II Acre feet p acre feel Tot 3 2 43 29ll 8 1 28 l 22 n r S 51 CAPACITY tIENT PAY The payment capacity of the Basalt project is based on the ability Because the agricultural econ new lltnds per acre foot of water as presented in the Silt project report is very similar to the econ omy of farm bud et data for a 140 omy of the Basalt project a summary farm was extracted from the Silt project report livestock Itcre general for this report as shown on the following table and of adopted Summary of a rm buduet data Conversion Item Size of farm Type 01 flllm productive ock t 150 150 Oro sfarm incorne rrne1l Fo tru 11 lev 132 lcres lcneral1Ive 21 5 price M l 193 prIces ncfor S4 1 132 Ii l1l2 00 1 978 2 067 00 150 3 225 00 2 450 00 eSn u oo llvlngallowanceNrtrurmlncome Famll nu 75 00 2 nt Po Ill T farm ym C3pllCit PlI ymelltcapnc ty l raCreJ lt tlerll cre roe t Paymenlcapa OIX atlou and maintemmce COSt9 pcr Amortization capacity per acre foot oo 4 55 I ll n Il cre 83 rooL d 17 d per fl Cr ladoplod from farm bwJFlt t tablll No 3i Slit projf ct report dated data per rarm ct ation water r latld to the tate upply for thr D9 5 1It s per f l lt or fo proj alu lrril a ly 9l Pf rrent IJ full water supply or about 3 1 acre foet per Cre Sl rl on an a Hrap c of lll rpprimato l wbkb 15 rssrotlally equal to the B eragt supply thllot woulJ be pro lderl by tbo Basalt projet l AgriNlltUTal Junf tQ J with I The family living allowance as used in this analysis is based on a flexible scale method with a minimum allowance of 21250 per fann anllually Prices were based on the long term projected level 215 1 J10 H 100 The amortization capacity is approximately 0 67 pel acre foot of 1 530 alUluaUy for the 511530 3 water Tlus would amount to about Due to the reconnaissance acre feet of water developed by the project nature of this report a contingency factor of 5 percent has been ap in plied to the indicated payment The payment capacity is shown the table on page 127 hereof RUEDI 3819 Land Summary DAM 127 COLO water supply operation and estimated amortization classification replacement cadI Prodllcl ive RESERYOIR AND m aintenance l ge acre Supplemental 6 430 13 530 service land Full service Increase provided by land project 8 230 43 300 Supplemental FulI ser service land ice land Total 51 w Estimated payment capacity full supply r Pl Per foot Total Opera tion Per ml1 intenancc acre 530 4 55 1 50 acre acre and capacity 77 300 and replacement costs foot Total 83 42 770 00 Amort ization capacity Per acre oot 67 34 530 00 Total DEVELQPMEYT PERIOD A development period of 5 years from the time of first delivery of project water is mggested This would allow ample time for project farmers to complete necessary developments before assessment of the construct ion changes CH PTER II FINAl CIAL ANALYSIS The degt ee to which the Basalt project would be economically justi fied is best expressed by a of the project s national benefits lson compal and costs For purposes of comparison both benefits and costs were computed as average a nnual equivalent values over a IOO year period beginning with the first year of project operation Construction costs were eomputed on July Hl59 prices Benefits and annual operation maintenance and replacement costs were based on projected future price levels An interest rate of 2 5 percent has been allowed in all computations of required Federal expenditures and revenues received ANNUAL BENEFITS Irrigation benefits In igation benefits ha e been recognized in tlllS study as benefits resudting from incren ed production of goods and services associated with the provision of a supplemental water supply for presently irriga red land and a full warer supply for new land These benefits have been evaluated as direct indirect and public Direct bel1efit8 Direct benefits have been calculated from the farm budget summary representing conditions with and without project development These benefits were derived as follows Class A benefits represent the increase in family living Class B benefits represent the increased payment capacltv Class C benefits represent the increased eqmty in the totai farm investment J 8S c O RUED V DAM RESERVOIR AND COLO Indirect benefits have been calculated from the Indirect benefits farm budget summary representing conditions with and without proj These benefits were derived as follows ect development Class A benefits comprise the increased profits of local retailers and wholesalers from handling the sale of farm products con without processing sumed locav Class B llenefits comprise the profits of all other enterprises between the farm and the final consumer due to handling process inO and marketing of increased farm production bass C benefits represent the profits of aU enterprises supply ing goods and services of family living and product ion expense In arrIving at the value of these indirect benefits specific factors Bureau Manual Volume XIn as set forth in the revised version Benefits and Costs have been applied to the inc rease in sale value of individual commodities This type of benefit Publie benefits settlement opportunities ement in the provision of would arise from t he increase or impro cpportunit ies for the establishment of fl1mily sized fal1ns within this h irrigation development They have been calculated project throu Benefits and as recommended in the Bl1l eau Manual Volunle Xln For this project Costs including the June 1951 draft of revision it is estimated that approximately 60 new brm units coudd be created Su u nIJ ry The tangible national benefits resulting from the devel opment of t his project would accrue at the rate of about 604 800 annually The benefits are summarized in the following table Sum Dir ma v ot irri uation benejitB benefits flr water supply P r ncre Per a cre foot 17 35 5 80 2a8 900 00 Total Indirect benefits for full water supply 16 00 5 35 Per acre Per Rcre foot 2i5 7oo 00 Total Public benefits1 Total benefits Full deyelopment Adjusted for development period J Based OD Adjusted Fish and 60 new farlD unlt8 for lj year development perIod 60 000 00 634 600 00 2 604 800 60 1 3 9 percent factor cildlife and 1ec1eatUnwl benefits The Fish and Wildlife Service a nd National Park Service have not made studies of fish and wildlife and recreational benefits which woudd accrue with PI oject development It is expected however tJut t infinancio clusion of such benefits would not materIally affect the analysis as presented herein j RUEDI 3821 DAM AND RESERVOIR ANNUAL 129 COJiO lS COS costs struction Oon An alUlU 1 amount of 300 900 would be required to amort e the project construction costs at July 1959 prices over a 100 year perIod at 2 5 percent interest In determining equivalent c osts allowances were made for interest durulg the construction period Ope1 ation maintenance and replacement costs Approximately 43 000 would be required annually over the 100 lintena Ilk nce a nd replacements year period of analysis for operation of project facilities other than for storage in Ruedi Reservoir The unIlual equivalent replacement costs were computed on a sinking fund basis of 2 5 percent interesto er a 100 year period rage Lhsignment of Oolorado River sto project costs Bnsed on 2 per acre foot of deplet ion of t he anllual Colorado River flow the prorated share of the cost of regulatory features of the Colorado River storage project amounts to about 46 000 annually lntere st during c01l8trnction Interest costs during construction of project facilities other than sed on 2 5 storage in Ruedi Reservoir were bn percent over a 3 year con struction period This amounts to approximately 472 500 ry Surnma The determinat ion of the annual equivalent costs for the Basalt project other than Ruedi Reservoir storage is summarized below Gosts based Construction cost Interest during CODstruCtiOD on Jul1l1959 prices 10 543 440 472 500 11 015 900 300 900 Total construction cosL over 100 years at 2 5 percent InteresL Annual operuUon maintenance and replaceme nt cosL Amortized 43 000 46 000 Colorado River storage cosL 389 900 nnual equivalent cost BENEFlT COST RATIO The deg ree of economic justification for the development of this project is illustrated when the estimated national benefits of 604 800 are compared to the allJlllal present day costs of 389 900 Based on Plesent conditions and without allocat ion of cost for R lServoir the project benefit cost ratio is 1 55 to 1 use of Ruedi FINANCIAL SUMMARY 4 The allocation of costs amortization summarized below capacity and project payment are Based Project construction on July 1959 prlcesl cost Allocable to irrigation Payable by water users in iO ye8rS Required from Colorado River Bnsin accounL Annual operation maintenance and replacement costs Payable annually by water users Benefit cost ratio 10 3 440 10 543 440 1 726 500 8 816 940 43 000 77 300 1 55 to 1 3322 COMMENTS OF THE STATE OF COLORADO COLORADO VT ATER CONSERVATION BOARD Novembu 1 4 19159 l Colo Denve Re 735 Fryingpan Arkansas project Colorado Ron FREDA SEATON tl Secret Y of the Interior l Building WlUlhin InteriO gton D C DEAR 1fR SECRETARY III accordance with the provisions of section c of the Flood Control Act of December 22 1944 58 Stat 886 l on 19o this office has redewed YOUI proposed report of September the J uedi Dam and Reservoir as a part of the Frymgpan Arkansas project in Colorado Since the State of Colorado rendered materllll assistance in the preparation of this report we are already famlhar with the details contained therein This report meets the full and e are extreme y and of of the lldo Colol State unequivocal approval manner lD for the to the Bureau ReclnmatlOn of expeditIOus grateful which this report was prepared Your proposed report indicates that the total reimbursable mvest ment allocated to municipal and industrial water supplies for use in Colorado west of the Continental Divide can be reasonably expected to be repaid with interest under the provisions of the Vater Supply Act of 1958 Public Law 85 500 Your proposed report notes further that in the absence at this time of agencies or organizations qualified to contract for repayment of the cost assigned to such deferred mu nicipal and industrial water supply it will be necessary that the State of Colorado prior to transmittal of this report to the Congress fur nish assurance as to future repayment as required by the Water Supply Act of 1958 It is the purpose of this letter to furnish such ussurance Ve an ticipate as does your report that commercial development of Colo rado s oil shale reserves will create a future ma rket for the municipal and indllstrial water supply that would be provided by Ruedi Dam and Reserwir Should such a market however not develop to a degree sufficient to return the costs allocated to municipal and industrial wa ter supply the St ate of Colorado will undertake repaymellt of the pOrtlOll necessary to assure full repayment of municipal und industrial 1 I ater supply costs proposed report pointed out certain discrepancies between the operating principles adopted for the Fryingpan Arkansas project by theState of Colorado witlj certain provisions of reclamation law and poh V These uppurenq fconslstencies have been reviewed with the staII of th I ureau f Reclal lat lOn ancl we ant icipate th t these op wlll he reYlscd to meet the objection pomt ed out to eratmg J mclples l us It IS that these revised operatinO principles will be JlRHcipatedthe in your next 30 days 11lIfTdSt within Very ruly yours The f FELIX L SP RliS Director 131 3823 132 RUEDI DAM AND COLORADO RESERVOIR COLO VATER CONSERVATION BOARD Colo Y 15 1960 Janua1 Denve Ron FRED A SEATON Intel o 8Mreta Y of the Interior Building lJhington WG DC e are pleased t o enclose herewith a fully DEAR Mn SECHET RY of executed copy the operat ing Jlrineiples for the Fryingpan Arbnsas The exeeuted copy en losed as amended December 30 1959 projeet herewith replaces and supersedes those operatll1g prmclples lOusly pre forwarded to you aud bearing the execution date of April 30 195n The operating principles 3S enclosed herewith contain those changes recommended by YOllr Depart ment Copies of these al 1ende 1 per ating principles have previously been forwarded to the CommIssIOner of Reclamation and to the Direetor of Bureau 7 Bureau of Reclama tion ery OPEG Adopted by truly yours TIKG PRINCIPLES FELIX L SPARKS FnYI trrAN Directm ARKANSAS PnOJECT the State of Colorado April 30 Dee 30 lJ59 1959 as amended The construction and operation of the project ilH oh e the diversion of water from t he headwaters of the Frvingpan River and other tributaries of t he Roaring Fork River to t he Arkansas River Basin The project lates eontem a The maxlInum conseryution and use of water b The protection of western Colm ado water uses both ex isting and potential in aeeordanee with the deelared policy of the Stale of Colorado and 0 The preservation of recreational values In order to accomplish sueh purposes the project shall be operated by the United States in compliance with the Federal reclamation laws the laws of the State of Colorado relat ing to the appropriation use or distribution of water and the following operating principles 1 As used herein a Project means tha t eertain enterprise planned and de the Bureau of Reelamation Department of the Interior by signed for the t ransmountn in diversion of water from the headwaters of the Fryingpa River and other tributaries of the RoaTing Fork ll River to the basin of the Arka nsas River together with an of its ll westel appurtenant works and facilities in both eastern and Colorado b East ern Colorado means that portion of the State of Colorado lying within the natural drainage basin of the Arkans 1s Ri er 0 Western Colorado means that portion of t he St ate of Colorado lying within the natural drainage basin of t he Colorado River and served by diversions made from t he Colorado River or its tributaries above its confluence with the Gunnison River I 382 1 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO 133 Southeastern Colorado 1Vater Consermncy District that entity 1led cre to contract for payment to t he Umt ed of an States appropriate portion of project costs allocated to certain wuter uses in eastern Colorado e Colorado River Water Conscn ation Dist rict means that created by Colorado Revised Statutes 1953 149 8 as d mellns I entity amended Southwestern Vater COl1s rvati n District means that crel1ted by Colorado Rensed Stl1tut es 1903 149 9 as entIty amended Ruedi Reservoir means the reservoir presently planned g for constrnction on the Fr yingpan River above the town of Basalt as part of t he h Ashcroft Reservoirproject meflns not only the reservoir con templated for construct ion on Castle Creek a tributl1ry of the Fork River but alsu unless the context requires other rinO Rou n tructecl in the wise a y other reservoir t hat may be ROUTing Fork Basin above the to J1 of Aspen JI1 lieu of that reserVOIr means cllbic feet of water per second of time i c f s 2 The Ruedi Reservoir shall be constructed and maintnined on the Frying1 an River above the town of Basalt with an act ive capacity of In addition thereto and in order to not less than 100 000 aere feet offset ad erse st ream flow conditions on the Roaring Fork River above the town of Aspen which mig ht orcuI as a result of the project en largmnent of the Twin Lakes Resl rvoir t he Ashcroft Reservoir on e Creek or some reservoir in lieu thereof shall be constructed Cast on t he Roaring Fork drainage above Aspen to a capacity of approxi j mately 5 000 acre fee Providing ho wever That the Ashcroft Heser voir shall be constructed only if t hc Secretary of Interior after appro priate st udy shall determine t hat its benefits exceed the costs All of su ch stored Water shall be releaseLlunder the conditions and limitations hereinafter set forth 3 The reimbursable cost of construction of the Ruedi Reservoir to the ex shaH be a cha I ge against the Fryin gpan Arknllsas project The remaillillg reimbursable cost of construction tent of 7 600 000 of the Ruedi and Ashcroft Reservoirs or subst itut es t herefor shall be as if they were p Jled retul projects Illlder the act of il Apl 1tirticnipg 11 ID56 70 Stat 1 5 and all net revenues derived from their opera tion shall be paid into the Upper Co orndo Ri er Basin Fund as pro vided in sectIOn 5 of said act The cost of perpetual operation and ma intenance of the Ruedi Reservoir shall he L0l11C by users of project water an ll1sers of water storf fl in Rllecli Resen oir in snch proportion as may he determined by the SecrctiLry of Interior The cost of per and t he of Oft Ashcl ual llliLintenance Reservoir hall be operation pet borne by users of wftter from that reseryoir Resen oir in t he project shall not 4 The inclusion of the Rued preclude t hE const ruction of ri ny other replacement or reulatory the Colorado River or its triuutnries above Cameo reservoirs on stat oll gagin 5 The RueJi Reservoir shall be completed and in operat ion before llny water is diverted to eastern Colorado by means of the project 3825 134 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO 6 Ill The replacement capacity of Ruedi Heservoir and any re ser voir constructed in addition thereto is t hat portion of the total reser voir capacity reqnil ed to permit project di eN ions a t times when such vis be made because of simultaneous divp rsiol1s could not othe demands of senior diversions in western Colorado existing at the t ime io be of t he adoption of t hese operating principles and shall opemted shall be Water stOl ed in such to accomplish this purpose caRacit y rele tsed bv the United States upon the request of the Colorado itate enginee r to the extent that water would ha e been availuole to Sttid decree rights except for stream depletion resulting from diversions d this by project to the Arkansas Valley reservoir b The regulatory capacity of Ruedi Reservoir md any l l reservoir tot constructed in additlOll thereto is that portion of the Vater stored in sueh capacitv not needed for replacement purposes category may be sold or leased by the United States to water users in Colorado for any purpose recognIzed by the laws of the United States P 1Jided That the s tle of water for use outside the nat ural basin of the Colorado RiVAl can only be made with the consent of the Colorado River Vllter Conservat ion District Charges for the Uie of such the wn t ithahledi shall hA e by Secretary of the Interim by appro priate contract in accordance with the payment ability of such water users 7 The primary purpose of Ruedi Reservoir and allY reser oir COll structed in addition o is to furnish to the extent of its capacity theret in like manner as if the project were constructed by a water conseno ancy district organized pursuant to the Jaws of the State of Colorado the water required fm the protection of western Colorado water users of Colorado Revised Statutes 1953 149 6 13 readinp by the ipronsvi as follows However any works or ifnecisl t plallned and ctesieYlled for the ion of water from the natural basin of the Colorado exportat Riyer and Its tributaries in Colorado by llny district created under this article shall be sllbject to the provisions of the Colorado River Com pact and the Boulder Canyon Project Act Any such works 01 facili ties shan be designed COllstructed and operated in such a manner that the of water and in addition thereto prospec iCnt pre Opriations appl tive uses of water for ilLig ation and other beneficial consumptive use inchHling consumptive llses for domestic mining ann indus tria purposes within the nn tural basin of the Colomdo River in the which water i exported will not be State of Colorado fl Om impaired 1101 increased in cost at the expense of the water users withlll the naturnl basin The facilities and other me ans for the accomplishment of said iepurpO shall be incorporated in and made a part of any proj ect plans for the exportfltion of water from sa id natural basin in Colora do 8 Project diversions from Lime Creek shall he made only in the mont h of y a nd Tune of each yeflrlllnle s the Colorado R i e r Vater Ma Conselyation District shall by written communication advise the Calm flcIo State e ngineer that additioIl111 diversions can be made 9 The respecti e decrees which may be or have been awarded to the parties heret o as a part of the Fryingpan Arkansas project lIld Basalt project shall be adllliniste ed by the proper oflic ials of the State in accordance with the applicable laws of the State of of lldo Colol Colorado and with the following principles and procedures to wit purroses 3325 RUEDI DAM D RESER OlR COLO 135 1 That the demand on the waters available under such decrees shall be allocated ill the following sequence For diversion to the Arkllnsas Valley through the collectIOn sys a tem and the facilities of the Fryingpan ArkansllS project m an amount not exceeding an aggregate of 120 000 acre feet of water in any ye ar1 but not to exceed a total aggregate of 2 352 800 acre feet many perlO 1 f 34 consecutive years reckone in ontinuing rr gr sive seri s stn rt mg with the first full year of dlverslOns both IllllltatlOns herem bemg exclusive of Roaring Fork exchanges as provided in 0 below and exclusive of diversions for the Busk Ivanboe decree and with the further and absolute limitation that in order to protect existing and future beneficial uses of water in western Colorado including recrea tional and fishinO values the State engineer shall so regulate the trans mountain above referred to to t he end that no diversions Eions divel shall be made which will reduce the remaining aggregate stream flows to less than either of the following minimum st andards i The Fryingpan collectIOn system at the points of diversion collectively exclusive of Lime Creek 15 c f s October 1 through March 31 30 c f s Arill through September 30 ii Near Norrie immediately below the junction of North Fork and 0 c ts October 1 through March Fryingpan River 31 100 c f s ll 1 through April 30 150 c h May 1 through Apl May 31 200 c f s June 1 through June 30 100 c f s July 1 through July 31 75 c f s August 1 through August 31 65 c f s I September 1 through September 30 t In maintaining tile above 1l1inimUIll standards the project diversions shall be regulated so far as is practicable in such a manner that the North Fork of the Fryingpnn River the Fryingpan River and each of the tributaries of those streams shall contribute to the residual stream flows required by those minimum stalldnrds quantities of water in proportion to their natural contributions b For storage in Ruedi Reservoir to the extent of its actual capac which is to be notless than 100 000 acre feet ity For 3 000 acre feet annually to the extent that it is available 0 in excess of al and b above or such part thereof as may be required to be delivered to the Twin Lakes Resen oir Canal Co in exchange for equivalent releases from the headwaters of the Roaring Fork River which would otherwise be diverted through such Twin Lakes Reservoir Canal Co collection and diversion system d For nny other beneficial use in western Colorado in accordance with court decree but not herein contemplated 2 The effeetuation of the above principles requires concurrent Fryingpan Arkansas project diversion find Ruedi Reservoir storage to be accomplished in the manner following The State engineer annually sha ll collect pertillent data including information pertaining to snow pack and all other available evidence and shall thereafter so divide and apportion the surfnce runoff as to achieve as nearly as possible the foregoing dh ision of water and the maximum of concurrent rliver iions und storage The rliversions herein contempl nted shall be on the basis of a water year hereby defined as that interim of October 1 through thelJ ollowing September 30 1 2 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO 10 For the protect ion of recreat ional values including fishing on the Fryingpan River below Ruedi Re ervoir releases of water from saId reservoir not to exceed the stream mflow shall be made so that the stream flow immediately below the junction of the Fryingpan River and Rocky Fork shall not be reduced below 39 c f s from November 1 to April 30 and 110 c f s from May 1 to October 30 or as act ual experi ence or court decree shall hereafter dictate 11 An appropriate written contract may be lade whereby Twin Lakes Reservoir Canal Co shall refram from dlvertmg water when ever the natural flow of the Roaring Fork River and its tributaries shall be only sufficient to maintain a flow equal to 01 less than that required to maintain the recommended average flows in the Roaring Fork River immediately above its confluence with Difficult Creek in a quantity proportionate to the respective natural flow of the Roaring Fork River The recommended average flows above mentioned are flows in quantities equal to those recommended as a minimum imme diately above its confluence wit h Difficult Creek according to the fol lowing schedule submitted by the U S Fish and Wildlife Service and the Colorado Game and Fish Commission Montb Octo1Jer NOY mt December cr iIll ApriL rcb ry Thollsanrls oracre reet 35 2 2 1 1 8 f m Februa Av rage ecQnd fl et 1 25 l t 4 l 4 3 1 5 Montb Aera sec Mdy 100 I1Inc 12fl 00 Ju1r AllI I e lDd cot UsL S ptember TotllL Thousands ofllcre fcct 2 7 1 8 2 3 1 2 8 40 9 In maintaining t he a bo e averages at no time shall the flow be reduced below 15 c f s ltu ing the months of August to April inclusive or below 60 c f s during t he months of May to Tudy inclusive providing the natural flow during said periorl is not less than these amounts The obligat ion to supply the minimmn stream flow as set forth in the above table on t he ROltring Fork River shall to t he extent of 3 000 acre feet annwLlly be a project obligation to be supplied from any waters divClied from the south tribut aries of Hunter Creek Lime Creek Last Chance Creek 01 any of them The Twin Lakes Reservoir Canal Co shall not be required to inrefra from diverting water under its existing decrees from the Roaring Fork River except to the extent that l1 like quant ity of re placement water is furnished to said company without charge therefor through and by means of project diversions and storage If ly reason of storage Cl1 a city in the Ruedi Reservoir 01 any re servoir const ructed in additIOn thereto the Twin Lakes Reservoir Canal Co derives additional water or other benefits or advantages it would not have realized had this project not been constructed then not hing herein conta ined shaIl prevent the project from ma king ap propriate charges for such water or ot her benefits or advantages All revenues derived from t Im use of water stored in Ashcroft Reservoir shall bensed to assist in t he repayment of the construction operation and m31ntenance costs of that resen oir or n ny reservoir constructed in lieu thereof as ml1Y be determined by the Secretary of the Interior I 3323 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLD 137 B All lands acquired and held for project constlllct ion and opera tion and water SllrfllceS of project reservoirs will be open to the pub lic for recreational purposes excepting those areas reserved by the opera ting agency 13 The project will be operated in such a manner that those III eastern Colora do using project water imported from the Colorado River Basin for domestic purposes shall have preference over those claiming or using wa ter for fiUY other purpose 14 The project is to be operated in such a manner as to secure the greatest benefit from the use and reuse of imported project waters within project bounchnies in the State of Colorado 15 A ny and all benefits a nd rights of western Colorado water users in and to wa ter stored in Green Iounta in Reservoir as described and defined in Senate Document 80 75th Congress 1st session shall not be or diminished by this project The project its operation maintenance and UJ3e shall be subject to the prodsions of ti e upper Colorado River Basin compact of October 11 1948 Public Law 7 81st Cong 1st sess and the Col orado River compact of November 24 1922 H Doc 605 67th Cong 4th sess 17 The Colorado River Vater Conservation Dist rict of the State of Colorado shall acquire title to storage of water in Rlledi Reservoir and any reservoir constructed in addit ion thereto by appropliate pro ceedings in the courts of the State of Colorado The Southeastern Colorado Vater Conservancy District of the State of Colorado shall likewise acquire title to the water required by t he project for diversion to the Arkansas Valley The Secret arv of the Interior shall at any time after t he Luthurjz 1t ion of the project have the option to obtain or require the transfer to the United States of any and all rights init iated 01 acquired by appropriation as herein set forth Provided however That the rights so taken shall be subject to a beneficial use of such water as may be prov ided in the repayment contract or contracts and subject to all the operat ing principles herein set forth 18 No t l inalSmounta diversion of water shall ever be made through the collection and diversion syst em of the Fryingpan Arkansas project in excess of the quant itative limitations and conditions established by this documeut Provided however That when under the laws of the State of Colorado there may be additional water availnbJe for such collection and diversion which is not at the time of diversion interst ate required for beneficial use in western Colorado or for fillin water compact ag reements then such water may be collected and diverted for benefic ialuse in the Arkansas Valley Provided lu rther That such additional diversion shall only be made with the mutual consent of each of the foJlowing agencies of the State of Colomdo t o wi t the Colorado 1a tel Conserva tion Board the Southwestern Vater Conservation District the Colomdo River Water Conservation District and the SOlltheaste I Colorado Water Conservancy District 19 To assure project operation in conformity with the operating principle heretofore stated to provide a means for the collection and interchange of information a nel to provide a method for the c ont inued st udy of project operat ions to t he end that if the stated operating principles may be improved upon recommendations for changes ma y imrepda 16 ri2351 60 10 3829 138 RUEDl DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO contracting parties a commission shall be created in appropriate manner to be composed of one representat ive of the Southeastern Colorudo Vater Conservancy DistrICt one representa be made to he an tive of the Colorado River Water Conservation District two repre United States Rnd one representative of the State of Colorado appointed by the Colorado Vater Conservation Board after consultation with the Colorado Game and Fish Commission The powers of such commission shall be limited to the collection of data the making of findings of fRct and t he suggestion of changes in sentat ives of the operating principles These operating principles shall be deemed to have amended ami and executed on take the place of t hose operating principles sig ned April 30 1959 These operating principles shall be and do constitute a contract between the signatory part ies and shall inure to the benefit of and shall be and remaiu binding upon said parties their respective successors and assigns Executed 1959 us amended at Denver Colo this 30th da y of December COLORADO V TER CONSERVATION BOARD McNICHOLS Chairman Governor State of Colorado By STE Attest Attest Attest By FELIX L SPARKS Dz rector and Sec etary SOUTHEASTERX COLORAOO VATER CONSER VANCY DISTRICT T SELBY Y OUNO President By J E SHOUN Seeretary COLORADO RIVER VATER S ATIO COXSER DISTRICT Cy T HANSEN President SOUTHWESTERN Attest By PHILIP P S UTH Seeretary VATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT IRA E KELLY President ARCHIE B R Secretary TON 3831 COMMENTS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA STATE OF CALlFORNB IEN1 OF VATER RESOURCES DEPART SW I a7nento January 18 1960 Hon FRED A SEA TDN 8ecretary of the Intel wr 1V a hington D C DEAR MR SIlATON l oposeclreport on the Ruedi Dam and Ueservoir Colo was receive 011 Octol el JO UJ5V This Deparrmeilt has re iewed the report in nCCOl d llce with the provisions of Public I aw 534 78th eSs 2d sessioll Congl A copy of the report was submitted to the Colorado River Board of California which is the State agency designated by t he legislature to represent the interests of the State in matters relating to the Colorado Ri er system The Colorado River board has reviewed the report and has snb to this Depul tment its COJllJnE llts and conclusions in connec ed mitt These cOlllments of t he Color udo River board are tion t herewith transmitted herewith This Department has no additional comments or recommendations to make beyond those expressed by the Colomdo Ri vel hoard in its It is therefore requested tha t the reyie v of the proposed report comments and conclusions of the Colorado River board be considered as expressing the views nnd conclusions of the State of California on your repolt on Ruedi Dam and Reservoir Colo dateel Septemher 1959 YourJ Very truly I yours H RDEP Tl RT fE TAL co R EY r O BANKS D reetor IUNJCATIO s JANUARY 11 1960 Mr Han ey O Banks Director Department of Vater Resources Sacramento Calif Om Fl Colomdo River Board of Califomia Subject Review of Federal reports Ruedi Dam and Reservoir To 1 Reference is made to a letter dated October 27 1959 from l d Alfl to you ransnlit ing R GoJze A cting Commissioner of Reclamation t in aecor lance with section 1 of the Flood Cont rol Act of 1944 the proposed report of the Secretfiry of t he Interior elated Sept ember HJ9 on Ruedi Dam and Re en oir Colo for review and comment by the St ate of California By copy of that letter III Golze trans a copy of the proposed repOlt Your reply of mitted to tins ollie November o W50 to Mr G6lze st ated t hat t he views and recommen tat ions of the State will include the comments of the Colorado River Board 39 3831 140 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO As directed by t he board at its regular meeting on January 6 1960 the comments of the Colorado River Boa rd of California on the proposed report are submitted herewit h with t e request that these comments be incorporated III or t ransmltt ed wIth the report to be submit ted for the Go ernor as the views and recommendations of the St ate of California RA YlIlOND ITHEW 1I1A Chief Engineer COJ BIENTS OF COLORADO RIVER BOARD OF CALIFORNIA ON PnOPOSED REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR ON RUEDI DAM AND REsERvom CoLO DATED SEPTEMBER 1959 INTRODUCTION The proposed report of the Secretary of the Interior on Ruedi Dam amI Reservoir Colo dated September 1959 is a supplement to in diversion proj the report on the Fryingpan Arkansas l smountn tr ect wllich was printed as House Document 187 83d Congress 1st Rue di Dam and Reservoir on the session Fryingpa River is recom n mended as an initial feature of the proposed Fryingpan Arkansas project in lieu of Aspen Dam and Reservoir originally proposed on the Roaring Fork River The da m contemplated for the Ruedi site would create a reservoir of 100 000 acre feet capacity to pro ide re placement storage for the proposed trnnsmollntaill diversion and surplus regulatory capacity for use on the west em slope of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado Preliminary cost estimate based on J anHalT 1959 prices is 12 831 000 The main interest of the Colorado River Board of California in the Rucdi Dam and Reservoir lies in the proposal to include this storage unit as an initial fe a ture of the proposed Frying pan Arkansas projec t One of the operating principles included in the report specifies that the Ruedi Reservoir shall be completed and in operation before any water is diverted to eastern Colorado by means of the Fryingpan Arkansas project FRYINGPAN A The Fryingpan Arkansas SAS project port diversion of about 69 000 is a PROJECT proposal to create a new ex feet a year average from the Fryingpan River and ot her tributaries of t he Roaring Fork River to the Arkansas River Basin and to increase by about 15 000 acre feet a year the existing Twin Lakes diversion from the Roa ring Fork to the Arkansas Purpose of the new diversion would be for munieipal and industrial water and supplemental irrigation in the Arkansas Riyer Vallev Bilis introduced in the 83e 84th ane 85th Congresses to authorize construct ion and operation of the Fryingpan A rkunsns project incor porated by reference a set of operatin principles which were printed in House Document 187 and which the report states re we intended to reflect agreement on project operat ions between the eastern slope and the western slope interests in Colorado and t o provide protection of rights and interests on both slopes The principles recognized acre I 3832 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO 141 entia1 o Dam and Reservoir of 28 000 acre feet capacity as an es feat ure of t he Fryil1 ln ArklJlUsas project plan to provide replace p ment water and wa t for future use in western Colorado Views of tlu Colorado River Board and the Department of Public Yorks of t he St ate of California on t he proposed Fryingpan Arkan sas project appear in House Document 187 at pages 152 156 inclusive A ldit ional presentations of t he views of t he hoard were made at committee hearings on H R 236 and S 064 in t he 8ad Congress H R 412 and S 300 in t he 84th Congress and S 60 in the 85th Congress Represent at ives of t he board stated th t the project report is based upon mjsinterpretat ion of the Colorado Ri er Compact and related documents that the proposed project operation and t he authorizing legislat ion dill not adeqm tely prot ect California s interests and t hat serious questions existed as to the engineering and ec onom ic feasibility of the project Amendments to the proposed authorizing legislation were offered on f of California beha The board has taken the position that if the amendments deemed essential to the safeguarding of California s rights are rejected the authorization of the project should be denied Suggested amendments included 1 disclaimer of commitment for transmoullt ain diversions in excess of the quantity contemplated for the Fryingpa n Arkansas project 2 prohibition against the use of Colorado River system water in any 8tate not a party to the compact 3 consent of the United S to joinder in suits to enforce com Stat e nce interfer pliance with the law of the river or to protect aga inst with water rights under St ate law 4 provision for compreheIlSive studies of water quality a nd 5 a limitatIon on total transmoUli tain diversions from t he Colorado River Basin by Colorado The amend ments offered were in the main rejected The bills were passed in the senate but failed to pass in t he House Pending in the 86th Congress are subst ntia lly identical hills S 2700 and H R 9229 0230 0231 and 0232 to authorize construct ion of the Fryingpan Arkansas project Provisions in these bills incor porate by reference a revised set of operating principles contained in the Ruedi report Certain provisions in the new bills and t he revised principles appear t o be attempts to meet to some extent the objectives of the amendments previously offered by California However the object ives of those amendments still are not fully met Aspen RUEDl DAM AND RESERVOIR The proposed Ruedi Darn and Reservoir would have a l1ge stol of 100 000 acre feet iIlStead of the 28 000 acre feet formerly proposed at t he Aspen site Construction cost is estimated in the report at 12 831 000 at Jalluary 1959 price levels It is proposed in the rel ort that of this l1mount 7 600 000 equal to the cost previ ously cstnnated at October 1954 pricc levels for the Aspen Dam nd a Reservoir be assigned to the Fryingpan Arkansas project on the basis of the claimed need for replacement storage all the western slope to protect exist ing rights against invasion by tJle proposed diversion to thee astern slope capacity 1 33 RUED DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO The report assume that justific t ion of the 7 600 000 is c mpre hended in the earlier anah ses nd findmgs as to the eCOnOlll1C Just lfi cation and financial feasihility of the Fryingpa n Arkansas project Consideration in the Rnedi report is limited to western slope proh l Wi lems tJJ C lapter on economic and financial analysis deals only Of thIS the rema1ll1l1g 5 231 000 cost assigned 00 the westsrn slop ll ellnhursable o it is p oposed to allocate 1 930 300 or 37 per ntto functions Proposed allocatIOn to fish and Wllrlhfe IS 1 757 800 01 totaThe relnaining 3 300 700 is proposed to be 34 percent of the on the assllmption that alloca tecl 00 lllllnic pal and industrial wale use of the reserVQlr for such purposes will lop III the fntllre den However western slope interests ant icipate use of the reservoir for irrigation 9 1so The Ruedi report cannot be ehar wterizecl fl a project planning report such as normally would be presented to the Congre ss for COll sideration of project allt horization Studies and est imates underlying the report are admitted to be of reconnaissance I rade fl1l ther st udies llble desil and are said to be needed to determine the most benefiein other for the reservoir from t wBe and It operating plan appears aspects of the report that thc plan of development presented in the proposed report may be chanp ed substant ially as to design cost esti mates plan of operation and financial aspects before the pl n becomes definileand final Operatinq p inciple8 California Rll ncies have dired interest in the establishment of a definite limitation on the total nmollnt of trnllsmountain diversions in the uppe r basin Section 9 1 a of t he reised operat ing principles read t oget her with the first sentence of sect ion 18 would provide n limitation thnt trt11lSmollntilin diversi011s throll h the facililies of the Fryingpall Arka nsas project shall never exceed 120 000 aere feet in any year or a tot al of 2 3 2 800 acre feet in any period of 34 con seclItive years However the remainder of section 18 find the second sentence of section b would itiate this limitation at t he disere 6 t ion of agencies jn Colorado by permitting diyelsions in excess of the quant it ies specified in section l 1 a Seetion 16 of the operating principles pro ides tha t t he o eration of t he projeet shall be subject to the pro isions of the Colora 0 River Compact and the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact This sec tion should be broadened by appropriate amendme nt to any aut horiz Vat er ences to the Mexiean ing legisl tion to inelude speeific refe Treaty the Colorado River Storage Projed Act the Boulder Canyon l and the Ac Project Act the Boulder Canvon Project Adjustment contracts for water and power Inwfnlly ente I ed into u1lder provisions of the Boulder Canyon Project Acts 11ecd f01 sMra qe The Ruedi report contains no clear showing as to the olume of re placement storage ne p ded jf nn on the western slope to permit the proposed diversions to the Arkansas River Basin to be made without encroachment upon existing rights in western Colorado Indicat ions nre t hnt the amount of replncement storage needed is sman in relat ion to the proposed tot Furthermore gross capacity of Ruecli Resen oir I I 333 RUEDI DA l AKD RESERVOIR COLO 143 the need for regulatory storage ill addition to replacement storage stern slope is not and he use of uch regulatory st orag e on the defillltely estabhshed by the report However It appears that such storage would be found lIseful for some future development in the Colorado River Basin CONCLUSIONS The proposed report of the Secretary dated September 1959 on the Rucdi Dam and Reservoir does not appeal to be all adequate proj ect planning report for recummendation that the development be au thorized Howeyer the Colorado River Board has no objection to the t of ide storage such as proposed at the Ruedi Reservoir site if it will serve a justIfied useful purpose for development in the Colorado River Basin The board has been concerued with the FryingpllJl Arkansas project e its sinc inception and this COllcern applies with or without the Ruedi Dam and Reservoir now proposed as a substitute for the previously osed Aspen Darn and Reservoir proI The position of the Colorado River Board with respect to the Fry ingp Arkansas project is that if legislation to authorize the project tn is so framed as to assure adequa te protection of California s rights and interests by the adoption of suitable amendments deemed essential to that purpose passagE of such legislation would not be opposed COLORADO RIVER BOARD OF C LlFORNIA By RAYMOND MATTHtOW Ohief Engineer 3835 COMMENTS OF THE STATE OF KANSAS EXECUTIVE OFFICE STATE OF UNSAS To peka Janaa IY J 1960 HQIl FilED SEATON Seeretary o f the Interio r lV n8hingto n D C DEAR ill SECRET RY The St ate of Kansas has complet ed review oir Colo dated Resel of your proposed report on the Ruedi Dam and executive L MI Robert Smith to September 1959 and as transmitted Board all October 27 IV59 by Resources Vater nnsas secretary the Acting Commissioner of Reclama tion I would advise that Kansas has no objection 0 the report on the Rueili Dam and neservoir being submit ted as a supplement to House Document 187 83d Congress 1st session which document contains on the Fryin pan Arkansas projcct Q the mp nt of Interior report Depart The Kansas position on a proval of the Fryingpan Arkansas proj ect as moilified by the Rueth Dam and Reservoir remains t he same as outlined in the lett er of August 2 1951 from former Gov e rnor Edward That letter and Al n t o then Secretary of Interior Oscar Chapman inent attachmClits thereto appe ltr in House Document 187 83d pert Congress 1st session Respectfully submitted DOCKINO Governor FELIX SPARKS Director Co lorado Watcl Co nservatio n Bo ard Denver Co lo R V SMRHA Agricu e 11lember u Chief Engineer Kan8a8 State Bo ard of Ula8 ka er Ri1 Co mpact Administratio n A1 144 GEORGE 3836 COMMENTS OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO STATE ENGINEEH OFFICE Santa Fe November IB 1959 Hon FRED E SEATON Secretary of the Intel fJT lVMhingto n D C My DEAR MR SECRETARY Your proposed repOlt on the Ruedi Dam and Reservoir Colo was transmitte d for t l e vie ws and recommenda tions of the St ate of New Mexico on October 27 1959 in accordance with he Flood Control Act of 1944 New Mexico has no objections to the phn presented in your pro posed report New Mexico wishes to give its SUPPOlt to the full development of Colorado s share of the waters of t he Colorndo River system in accordance with the desires of the State of Colorado New Mexico welc omes t he opportwuty to comment on proposed projects that m y feet her interests and yonr coultesy in furnishing such report is appreciated Very truly yours By GOVERNon JOHN BURROUGHS S E REYNOLDS State Engineer 145 38 n COMMENTS OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA OKLAHO A VATER RESOURCES BOARD Oklahoma Mr FLOYD DOMINY Bureauo Reclamation Department of the Interior Washington D C City STATE CAPITOL December J Olda 59 19 ssioner Conwd DflAR MR DmIINY Pursuant to a letter under thtp of October 7 1959 from Acting Commissioner Alfred R Golze addressed to Mr Guy H JIlmes chairman of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board and the letter to Mr Golze dated November 2 1959 this depllrtment hBs examined the proposed report on Ruedi Dam and Reservoir Colo The St ate of Oklahomll has no objection to the construct ion of said ken at dam and reservoir and hopes that the project may be undert an early dllte Respectfully 146 submitted FRANK RUB EaJeautive Director ul CeS Board Re8 Oklahoma lVatel 3338 COMMENTS OF THE STATE OF UTAH Hon FRED A SEWON SeC7 etary of the ntior UTAH VATER AND POWER BOARD Salt Lake Oity Utah December 21 1959 IV a hinqtan 135 D O DEAR fR SECRETARY Reference is made to letter dated October 27 1959 signed by the Acting Conunissioner of Reclamation trans mitting the report on Ruedi Dam and Reservoir Colo dated Septem ber 1959 In accordance with section 1 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 the State of Utah wishes to comment as follows 1 The proposed Ruedi Dam and Reservoir development would be in conformity with the Colorado River Compacts and compatible with Public Law 485 of the 84th Congress 2 The proposed projeet will c reate benefits three and one half times the annual costs and is therefore clearly feasible from an eco nomic point of view It is the opinion of the State of Utah that the Ruedi Dam and Reservoir project would not adversely affect any of the interests of the State of Utah It is to be noted that the State of Colorado and ge ncies involved ha e by means of this project cooperating Federal a resolved a local problem and opened a way for comprehensive de velopments of water resources of the area It is recommended that you give favomble consideration to the plans of development of this project and that all consistent action be taken to implement the project as outlined in the report Very trnly yours hy R BINGHA Executive 1tor DiN 147 3339 COMMENTS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING WYOMING EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT Oheyenne January Hon FLOm DOMINY 113 1960 Oommissioner of Reclamation Department of the Interior Wa8h ington D O of the DEAR MR DOMINY We have received the proposed report a poten Reservoir Dam and on the Ruedi lnt erior he t Secretary of and tial feature of the proposed FrJ ingpfin Arkllnsas Project Colo e to tIllS views relati and comments proposed submit the following project The potential Ruedi Dam and Reservoir located on the Fryingpan in the River tributary to Roaring Fork and to the Colorado River s State of Colorado would store waters which are part of that Stat e The allocation of water under the Upper Colomdo River Compact for existing and future downstream use in the is to provide purpoSe Colorado River Basin in western Colorado as replacement for water diverted out of the basin lUlder the Jlroposed Fryingpan Arkansas of 72 000 project as well as multiple purpose use and the storageuses in the acre feet of water for potential municipal and industrial Colorado River Basin in western Colorado The proposal for future repayment on the addcd storage for mlmi cipal and mdustrial uses expected to materialize downstream in the future development of oil shale deposits appears to US to be a new approach to the repayment requirements for municipal and indus trial water storage as authorized under Public Law 85 500 As the waters involved are from Colorado s share of water allo cated under the Upper Colorado River Compact and the report shows that the benefit cost ratio 3 26 to 1 on a 50 year analysis and 3 57 to 1 on a 100 yea r analysis it is our opinion that the project is feasible lIS a replacement reservoir in connec tion with the Fryingpan Arkan sas project and to supply the needs that will develop for future munic ipal and industrial water in western Colorado Sincerely 148 yours J J JOE HICKEY Governor 384j COMMENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY HEADQUARTERS DEPART1IENT Hon FLOYD E DmoNY Comm is8 7ler Bureau WCUih ington D C OF THE ARMY CHUF OF ENGINEERS Washington D C February 8 1960 OFFICE of OF TH E ReclamAtion Department of the Intmor DEAR IR Do nNY Reference is made to letters from the Acting retary Soc of the Army Commissioner dated October 27 1959 to the and Chief of Engineers transmitting for review and comment the proposed report of the Department of the Interior on Rnedi Dam and Reservoir Colo The report recommends construction of Ruedi Dam on the Frying pan River to provide replacement storage for the Fryingpan Arkan sas project and other purposes as a substitute for the Aspen Reservoir on the Roaring Fork River The Fryingpau Arkansas project pro poses to furnish wa ter from the Roaring Fork River Baslll of which the Fryingpan River is a tributary to the Arkansas River Basin by means of water collection and transmountain diversion systems TIle reJ lacement of this water to western slope users under present needs and potential future planned developments would be by regulated storage of unused water in strategically located reservoirs such as Ruedi Reservoir The Ruedi Dam and Reservoir site is located on the Fryingpan River about 13 5 miles above the town of Basalt Colo The dam would be an earth fill structure rising 270 feet above the streambed and having a length of 1 050 feet It would create a reservoir having a capacity of about 100 000 acre feet The preliminarv cost estimate based on January 1959 prices is 12 831 000 The economic and hydrologic data for the flood control ltures fe of the project contained in yonr proposed feasibility report were based on data of a preliminary nature furnished by the Corps of Engineers and may be subject to change with detailed study It is noted that these data have been included in your report without In view of the fact that the flood control benefits qllalification evaluated are of a preliminary nature it is considered desirable that the benefits be reevaluated prior to a final determination of costs allo cated to the various project purposes Also it is noted that the provision for operation of the project for flood control in accordance with regulations prescribed by the 149 150 34i RUEDI DAM AND OIR COLO RESER Secretary of the Army under the provision of section 7 of the Flood Control Act approved December 22 1944 has been omitted The proposed Ruedi Reservoir does not conflict with any existing project 01 any plans of the Corps of Engineers I appreciate the opportunity to review your proposed report Sincerely yours E C ITscHNER Lielllerw nl General DSA Chief of Engineers I 1 3842 COMMENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE rcuLTuRE NT OF Am D C F ebruary 10 1960 INTERIOR 1t DEPARTl lV IUihington The Honorable the SECRETARY OF THE ter let dated October DEAR JfR SECRETARY This is in reply to the 2i 1959 from MI Alfred R Golze Acting Commissioner l1ns tl mitting to us in your be 1alf copies of the proposed report by the Department of t he Interior on Ruedi Dam and Reservoir Colo for review and comment under Interageney Committee on Vater Re sources procedure This report is presented as a supplement to the report on the Fry ingpan Arkansas project which was printed as House Document No 18i 83c1 Congress It describes a plan for ge in the Ruew Dam stora and Reservoir on the Fryingpan RIver in lieu of storage in the Aspen Dam and Reservoir on the Roaring Fork River originally proposed as a feature of the Fryingpan Arkansas project The Ruedi 1m D would be an earth fill structure rising 2iO feet above the streambed of the Pan River near the town of Basalt Fryin Colo with approximatelv 100 000 acre feet of storage capacity The preliminary estimate of Its cost based upon January 1959 prices is 12 831 000 The estimated cost of the originally proposed 28 000 acre foot Aspen Dam and Reservoir w s i 600 000 Since the Ruedi Dam and Reservoir would perform the same function for the Frying pan Arkansas project as would the Aspen Dam and ReserVOIr i 600 000 of its cost has been as replacemeut storage The ijfuiestd additional cost of 5 231 000 is proposed to lie allocated among other uses on the western slope of Colorado on the following basis Reimbursable Municipal and Industrial water 3 300 700 Nonreimbursable Flood control Fi h and w ildlife 117 500 1 157 800 Itecreatioll Total G5 OOO 1 930 300 the portion of the cost of Ruew Dam and Reser assigned to western slope regulatory storage since the portion evio assigned t o I he Fryingpan ArkanSlls project l l usly has been found finanCially feastbl and econOlUlcl lly ltst fied ill the analysis of that project the report estimates the mtios of annual benefits to Considering only Toil 151 3843 152 RUED DAM annual costs for the western to be AND RESERVOIR COLO slope storage pact of the development 50 year analysts lAnnuo bncfits Anonal costs Rlltio of henefits to cost h n n i8 J r6 1 000 20 3 26 to 1 l00 y ar analysiS S6 500 Hil 300 3 67 to 1 Since water stored in the reservoir above t he Ruedi Dam in addi tion to the requirement of the Fryingpan Arkansas project is planned for mlmicipal and industrial purposes only the Department of Agri OUI conunents are based on culture offers no comment on such use the impact of the proposed dam and reservoir on the lands and pro gram of the national forest affected by t he construction Although most of the land in t he site of the Ruedi Dam Reservoir and appurtenant facilities above the reservoir is privat ly owned Some national forest land is involved and the site is entirely within the boundary of the 1Vllite Ri er National Forest There lre no national forest improvell1ents which will be inundated or otherwise disturbed by project construction Colorado State Highway 204 and a telephone hne now traverse the site The plan provides that they will be relocated as a part of project construct ion The plan recognizes that there will be heavy recreational use of the reserVQlr and lc nt area and recommends that lands needed for adj lcreational l la recl purposes be acquired and that minimum basic tional facilitIes be constructed This Department concurs in these conclusions regarding future recreational use but believes that antici lational recl use will be considerably higher than estimated in pated the report and that the estimated cost of 55 000 for basic recreational facilitJes is too low vre therefore propose that the Forest Service of this Department collaborate with the National Park Service and the Bureau of Reclamation in a more deta iled appraisal of needed recre ational facilities and a mutually acceptable plan for such improvements Also in this connection we recommend that item 4 the report be changed to read as follows on page 65 of Recreational use on national forest lands ent to the dam and reservoir adjn will be planned nnd managed in accordance with tbe memorandum of under standing agreed to by the Bureau or Reclamation and the Forest Service in January 1948 The Forest Servica will furnIsh recreational plans and programs tor such lands to the Department of tbe Interior In addition lands within the hite River Nations2 Forest which are aCQujred for recreational Or otber proj t purposes whicb are not determined by the Secretary of tbe Interior to be needed for actual use in connection wIth the reclamation works shall become national forest lands We also recommend that the first sentence of item 5 page 65 of the to read lIS follows report be changed 5 The National Park concerning Service and the Forest Service should be advised RUEDI 84 DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO 153 changes would be consistent with the Secretary of Agricnl letter of September 2 7 1957 to the Secretary of the Interior and wit h prior discussions between the Department of the Interior and the Depaliment of Agriculture III considering the Ruedi repolt the Depmiment of A grieulture has not 1 C iewed the osul and our Fryingpan Arkansas project conuuents are based solely upon the Ruedi Darn t to ruct const Ie plan in ljeu of the Aspen Dam we to charge the difference in cost to west em slope of Colorado anticipated use for municipal and industrial pur oses 1 e preciate t he opportunity to review the report lese t ure s proj aR Cly incel yours TRUE D fORSE Under t J G2lIG1 UO U Secreta 3845 COMMENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE DEl L nTl H T OF DUBEAU C OF OM E fERC PUULlC ROADS Iii lnber O1Je SO 1959 hington TVa IINT Hon FLOYD DO wT Inte mi sioner Oom Bureau of Reclamation Department of the D O WaBhington DE1 R MI DO IINY As requested in yonr I Uer of Odober 27 1959 Dam and Reservoir in the State we Iu e had the report on the Ruedi re iewed by the interested agencies of the Department of of Hdo Colol Comnlf ree Thc Ve at her Bureau advises that they now make forecasts of snow melt runolf in the vicinity of the proposed installat ion They agree that prf sent t t ehniques a nd ability to forecast snowmelt inflow should ser re oil release make it possibl to achieve the desired control of alln G odetic Slll ev advises that there is sufficient hori The lst CO zontal and vertical control in som e part s of the projed nrea but recom mend that additional control especially vertical control be estab lished in the vicinity of the diversion tunnels They state that at ast 18 mont hs advance notice will be needed to schedule such work in the regular Const and Geodet ic program The Coast and Geodelic Survey also advises that the inundation caused bv the dam will I esult in the loss of several control monu ments miles8 they are reestablished at higher elevations They recom mend t hat the Bureau of Reclamation determine the exact number of such c J1tro monuments that will be affected and notifv the Coast nd Geodetic Survey The cost of this work can then be rletermined for inclusion in the i roject report It appeal s that this work will have little effect on Federal aid high The Bureau of Public Roads does not therefore have any ways definite comments in regard to the report Sincerely yours Assistant to the Federal 154 PAULF ROYSTER hway Administrator Hi 1 I 3846 COMMENTS OF THE FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION JIEDERAL POWER COMJ shington Wa Re Ruedi Dam and Resen oir Colo Ron FREDA SE TON Secretary of the Interim WMhingt ln D O ISSION J anuary 28 DEAR MR 0 196 SECRETARY The comments herein with respect to the of your Eier lle oir l tment on the Ruedi Dam and Depl Fr ying an Arka nsas projeet Colorado n re transmitted in response to the Actmg CDmmissioner of Reclamntion s letter of October 27 1959 Tra nsmittcd with that r were copies of the Acting Commissioner lette of Reclamation s report of October 23 1959 approved and adopted by the Act ing Secretary of the Interior on October 27 1959 the Reg ional Director s report of September 1959 and a ppended materin l The Commission has reviewed the cited reports and agrees with the findings of your Department to the effect that the develOpment of hydroelectric power in connection with the proposed Ruech Dn m and Reservoir project does not appear to be econornieally sible fea The Commission is informed that YOUI Department e peets to lake further studies of the feasibility of including power fllCilities in the Ruedi Dam when the Fryingpan Arkansas project is authorized The Commission will be pleased to have its staff cooperate with of your Department in those stuclies representa tives Sincerely YOUIS JEROME K KUYKENDALL Ohairman proposed report 55 1 u I t 3B 4i COMMENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH EDUCATION AND WELFARE DEl 11 HTMENT FLOYT E OF HL LTII ELFARE EDUCATION AXD PTIHLIC HEALTH SERVlCE BURF U OF STATE SERVICES Washington D C 7anua1 y 126 1960 DOMINY Commissiuner Bureau of Reclamation Department of the hlterWT sh lVa ingt on D C This is in reply to Mr Go ze s letter of October DEAR MR DomN comments 27 1959 requesting concerning the report on the proposed dated September 1959 Colo Resermir and Dam Ruedi Our comments co ering the proposed report are attached IVe ape and stonn rendy to preciate the opport unity to review the treport assist the Bureau of Reclamation with he project in any way you may wish Sincerely Acting Chief yours Div iun of Water Supply ROBERT C AYERS and Pollutim Control ON THE BUREAU OF RECL lIL TION AnrENTB CO PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE OlR FRY1NGPAN ER REPORT ON THE PROPOSED RUEDl DAM AND RE SEPTEMBER W5V JlKANSAS PROJECT COLORADO PROJECT DESCRIPTION The Rued Dam and Resenoir site would be located on the Frying Normal storage Basalt Colo pan River about 14 miles east of would COVel capacity would be 100 000 acre feet The water surface The report is bused on the prospective an area of about 1 000 acres need of 252 000 acre feet annually by 1975 for municipal and in dustrial purposes in anticipation of development of vast oil shale re The reselToir would also provide uses serves in western Colorado functions as flood control fish and associated for such and benefits Total reimbursable inest wildlife consermtion and recreation is water and industrial xpected supply ment allocated to municipal to be repaid with interest under the provisions of the Water Supply Estimated cost of the project is A t of 1958 Public Law 85 500 1 600 000 The estimated ratio of benefits to costs is 3 26 to 1 based on a 50 year analysis COMMENTS proposed dam and reservoir will be located in an area now Vater supply and sewage disposal prob sparsely populated VeJop de mny rapidly wit h t he influx of construction personnel the nearby communities of Glendale Springs Carbondale and The ery lems into 156 1 3848 I RUED DAM AND RESER COLO 157 Basalt It is recommended that anticipated construction schedules be made a ailable to these commllllities and the Colorado Depart ment of Health as early as is practicable so that adequate preparation to handle public health problems can be made The predicted pl of 1 2 0 000 barrels of shale 011 pel day Odudion in the United States by 1 j5 of whicl1 no percent Illay be III Colorado together with the product ion of slIch hyproducts as ammonia sulfur or coke and petrochemicals portend problems in both water re The fine infol llUttiye repo l ts and water contra quirements pollution cOlll ernillg oil shale lrepal ed for the Colorado Vater COI1Sen allOl1 Board and appended to the subject report should be supplemented with similar reports on water quality management part icularly as the industrial growth impact is related to water pollution prevention water reuse and the need to furnish safe palatable water to the supporting population in the project area Encephahtis is the most important mosquitoborne disease in the oir project Oases of genernl area of the proposed Ruedi Resel from Pit ln in recent have not been equine encephalitis years reported or Eagle Counties however in i lesa and Gunnison Counties equme encepllalitis cases have been reported during 13 years of the 1u ear perioe of record HJ40 through 1055 A number of hmnan encephalitis cases have also been reported in i lesa County during recent years tar8rtl considered to be t he primary ector of encephalitis Oul in the West is a prevalent mosquito in the area of the proposed This mosquito is produced in a ide range of aquat ic habitats includproject ing seepage pools ponds flouded roadside ditches and other shnl1ow vegetated semipermanent or permanent bodies of water In addition to are known to Culc tanalis seyera l t Aedes highly annoyiJ1 species be prevulent mosquitoes in thiS genera l uea These mosquitoes in ve A pullatl A am lla and A dor8ali8 are c cluding A taph produced in temporary pools formed by melting SIlOW ruin overflow of streams lnd runofl Prolific production of these species tiroign may also occur in the shallow vegetated portions of permanent ponds and reservoirs which are intermittently flooded because of rising and lowering Water levels No significant amount of mosquito production would be expected in portions of Ruedi Reservoir where the shoreline is steep a nd exposed to wave action or where lowering of the ateI level results in a clean non vegetated sllOreline ConditIOns favorable for production of mosquitoes could occur in the upper reaches of the reservoir where flat or rrently sloping meadowlands are shallowly inwldated for periods or five or more consecutive dltys during the mosquito breedll1O season As public health sllfeguards it is recommended thllt the followinO basic mosquito control principles be adhered to in the design con struction and operation of the proposed Rueeli Dam lintenance m and ReservOIr A Prior to impoundage the reservoir bllsin should be prepared as follows 1 Clearing Trees brush willows and seminquatic or aquatic vegetation should be cleared from all areas of the reselToir basin here there is a likelihood of shallow protected water following mal D OIR IDlpoundnge 3S49 158 2 nage Drai hig RUEDI DAM AKD RESERVOIll COLO floodea the reservoir will be by All depressions whichretain water at lowe pool levels and which would 1spo lev to mnnllllze pondlllg as the water provided WIth drams installed to insnre complete on her should be grade level recedes Culverts should be areas behind relocated highway 01 all of potential ponding drainage road embanlanentS Borrow pits located in the fluctuation zone 01 out 3 Barrm pi s to side the reservoir basin should be constructed with steep banks minimize O l owt h of vegetflt ion in shallow wRter and should be made at self B I draining if possible the following measures should be carried ia mosquito prodneing areas located within flight potent or public use areas mnge of population gronps 1 Oontrol otvegetation Vegetation of a type and density favor able for mosqnito production should be controlled as necessary by lme hanica or other means Drains should be installed to eliminate seepage areas 2 Drainage t he dam below which dcvelop 3 Maintenance Vegetation debris and flotage should be periodi flows cally removed from all mosqnito control drains to insure free shonld be made for Provision eva luatian 8twlies 4 luita M08 al a nd adult mosquito evaluations during the mosquito lar periodic season to determine the extent of mosquito production as producing e or control socia ted with the reservoir and the need for correcti ate of Public St the Colorado Department measures Upon request Health and the U S Public Health Senice would be glad to assist 1 the Bureau of Reclamation in ma kino mosquito cont rul reconnais 0 sanee of this reservoir After out in a11 impoundage II 3830 COMMENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR u S DElARTMEl T OF LABOR OFFICE OF THE ASSISTAXT SECRETARY Waskington January 8 1960 Mr W A DEXHEI ER Oommissioner Burem of Reelam atkin Department of the Interior V kington D O DEAR MR DEXHEIMER This is in reply to Mr Alfred R Golze s letter of October 27 1959 to Secretary Mitchell relating to t he Ruedi Dam and Reservoir project Colorado llnc The proposed dam relllce reservoir in addition to providing ment storage for t he Fryingpan Arkansas project will nlllke avaIlable a supply of water for the potential needs of expeeted developments in the oil shale industry A considerable increase in the number of will result if the oil shale industry is l1do Colol job opportunities in develol ed as suggested in the Cameron Jones report In new of the potentinl job opportunities which can develop in the oil shale industry the Department of Labor is pleased to endorse the Ruedi Dam and Reservoir project Colomdo provided the project is otherwise economically sound and feasible and meets the standards set forth in pertinent laws Smcerely yours NEWELL BROWN Assistant Secretary of Labor 159 v 3851 COMMENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY Dr PARTMEXT OF THE N Avr OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 1V ashington D O January 129 19GO t Ron FRED A SEATON Tntet or Secretmy of the lV hinyton D C My DEAR MR SECRETARY The Acting Commissioner Bureau of Rechunation on your behalf by letter to the Director N aval Petro leum anrl Oil Shale Reserves doted October 27 1959 reqnested com ments on the proposed report on Ruedi Dam and Resen oir Colo Transmitted herewith arfll the comments of the Department of the Navy The import R ne of t he proposed Rnedi Dam lmd Reservoir insofar Rter it would make available for the the Navy is concemed is the Near Rifle oil western Colorado area of shale in the deyelopmm1t Colo the Navy hus two oil shale reserves comprising in the aggregate approximately 64 000 acres The oil content of this lllea is esttmated to be 5 billion barrels of recoyerable shale oil in rich shales assaying 25 gallons or more per ton and about 2 billion barrels from t he entire deposit hath rich anrllean if shales assaying as low as 15 gallons per tUIl Lre considered The laval oil shale reServes are hnt a small p ut of the total shale deposits in this area To illustrate the magnitude of tbe shale deposits in the e Creek Basin bet ween the Colorado and 1Vhite Rivers Picean in northwestern Colorado the following table compares estimates of recolTerable shale oil in place with pro red crude oil reserves in billions of barrels as 1 United States Crude oil llroduction in United States Crude oil resenes 30 5 2 4 400 0 5 0 J 19 8 2 ernble shale oil in pluce Piceance Basin Reco Recoverable sbale oil in place Colorado navnl reserve8 t Reports on Proved Rc erve8 the UnITed Stutes and Canndn ASboc llJ ati Arnerlenn Petroleum II o Oil Suule Donnld C lUIJ 5S 19 50 Publlcntlon ot tutl p ot Crude 011 Natural Gas Liquids and Natural GaB 1n Dec 31 1958 pUblished Jointly by AUl rlcalJ Gas Institute and CanadIan Petroleum Association JP U Monthly August Deposits JIl the Unlted Stale5 article waB authorized by the Director U S Geological Survey The estimates of recoverable slmle oil in place are based onlv on the richer 25 gallon per ton shale deposits but do not consider t at cer An tain losses will occur in mining and processing th deposits estimate of t he total recoverable shale oil in place in th Piceance shR1es of 15 gallons per toll are eonsidered is 1 trillion bar Basin if rels The c rude oil reserve estimates i clude only oil recoverable under existing economic and operating conditions ll Colorado there thwestel In addition to the shale deposits in nOl estimated to are also deposits in the Uintllh Ba sin of Utah mughl 1 ire f otnote 2 above 160 II I 3852 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO 161 contain 120 billion barrels of shale oil in plnce in 25 gallon per ton deposits and in the Green River Basin of Vyoming roughly esti ma ted to cont ain 1 billion barrels of shale oil in place in fj galloll per ton source Obviously t hese shale deposi contain a fuel deposits which may prove to be of inestimnule value to the national defense The Union Oil Co has a shale demonst ration pbnt on Union property near Rifle Colo and has been a leader in oil shale The need for a Yater supply to make it possible to de research velop this natural resource is illustrated in fill obsernttion by Ir John R Pownall of the Union Oil Co in a paper entitled Union Oil s Shale Demonstration First Year Summary of January 10 16 He stated No matter how much money Union Oil or the Govern ment or anyone else spends in developing n workable efficient shale retort and no matter how good that retort is I can see little prospect that Colorado s shale deposits will ever be fully developed unless adequl1te quautities of water are available to refine the oil and to support the population The proposed report st ates that a firm supply of water for oil shale development is not OLvl1ilable from the direct strel1mflow of the Colo I l1do River and its tributaries lillless existing direct flow rights are in some maImer retired This situat ion is well summa rized in the report on t it is believed that reservoir storage page as in the statement t ha would be t he most satisfactory and least costly way of providing the l and industrial water during such times To retire exist i1lg municipn water rights for this purpose would reduce n well established farmin g industry which is already a sound contributor to the 11 ea economy From the foregoing it is apparent that a shale industry will not thrive without a water supply and that the most economic manner of supplying the water is through reservoir construction The conundnnn is When will the need arise ViII the shale industry be ready for the water when the reservoir is ready t o supply it that is after a G yea r construction period as set out on page 28 of the report Insofar as possible t he question is answered by the followin stat rch resea ment by Mr Fred L Hartley vice president for Umon Oil Co at the Colorado Uining Association meet ing Denver Colo on February 7 1957 ogerated u e flnalysts who have studied Th re is lle H unnniIUOIlS agr e lIlel1t llIunng tho tbe lil situation closely that sometime iu th future oil hale will be a hig indus The only cuntro ersy is over tbe when It Selo lllS to me tllat the when try has two side to it When can slmle oil compete rea Ssful y succe with 1 crude oil find 2 when must our Nation haw amilaole for immediate military oil The fir t side depends nantitie s of pro lucts mude frow shale use Illrge Hlt mic the second on OUl Nation s need fot security on techn jtogy and eC Vith a view to gaining the attitude of industry toward the con struction of the Ruedi Dam and Reservoir a copy of the proposed report together with a let ter substantially in the form of enclosure was sent to those individuOLls and companies known to have au 1 interest in oil shale development in western Colorado Enclosure 2 is copies of the replies receiyed With respect to the construction of the Ruedi Dam and Reservoir the N ayy is in accord with the policy of the Cougress as set out in the l58 72 Stat 319 43 U S C 390b Vater Supply Act of 1 353 IG RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO It is declared to be the policy of the Con That statute provided to recop nize the primary responsibilities of the St ates and local mterests in developlllg wlIter snpphes for domestIc mnTIIClpal mdlls Hence if the State of Colorado t rial and ot her purposes undertakes to furnish reasonable assurn Ilce as to future repa yment as required by the 1Vat er Supply Act of 1958 the Navy supports the oir construct ion of the Ruedi Dam and Reser It is also recommended because of the great importance of shale lle national dde nse t hat any future studies of the elopment to t de utilization of the water resources of the Colorado River in the western Colorado area t ake into consideration the possible impact upon this area of the deveJopment of an oil shale industry In order that t he Congress may be apprised of matters set forth herein it is requested that the tmnsmittal of the report on the Ruedi Dam and Reservoir include a copy of these comments ress Sincerely yours F A BANTZ y of the Navy 1eting Secret SHELL OIL Co New York N Y rEN GENTLE It has been brought to my attention that your com together With several oth r companies submitted a report dateLl September 24 1953 to the Colorado Vater Conservation Board as to In view of your in the water requirements of fin oil shale industry nY pa l this matter there is enclosed for your information t copy of l Huedi Dam alld Reservoir Colo which was submitted by report t he Act ing Commissioner Bureau of Reclamation to the Secretary of the Interior on October 23 1959 As will he noted from the report the Bureau of Reclamation is justifying the construction of this reservoir on the assumption that mdustrial water uses in the western Colorado area primarily oil shale elopmellt will make the construction of the dam economically de feasible Inasmuch as this office has a continuing interest in matters relating to oil shale development it would be appreciated if you could com ment as to whether tbe construction of such a dam and reservoir would materially speed the development of nn oil shale industry in Colorado or if in your opinion the construction of such a dam and reservoir is a relat ively unsubst antial fact or in the future development of an oil shale industry in this area Any information which you may furnish in this regard will be terest in on appreciated Sincerely yours A S Oaptain MILLER U S Navy Director I I 385 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO IG3 VAN SICKLE ASS0CI TI S Ixc Den ver 0010 November 18 1959 DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY Nfl al Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserve 11 ash nqton D O tention At Capt A S Miller l GENTLF fEN Your letter of November 6 requests infonl1tltion re garding the proposed Colorado River Valley pipeline amI its relation to the proposed Rlledi Dam and Reservoir The c laim for 200 cubic feet per second for the Colorado R iver Valley piepline is owned by the Rocky MO Ultain Power Co This eompany has retained Van Sickle Associntes Inc a consult ing engineerlllg firm for all engineering work on both the Colorado River Valley pipeline and the adjacent Sweetwat r hydroelect ric project The Hocky Mountain Power Co r has requested that we answer your letter of November 6 This company plans to elop a hydroelect ric project with an in de stalled capacity of 37 000 kilowatts in an area tely 40 miles approxim The power 1 upstream from the town of RIfle Colo J oJect stores and regulates a considerable amollnt of ater This storage nnd regula tion service can be sold to potential water users Te expect t his serv ice to be ayuilable in 3 01 4 years It is most unlikely that the oil shale industry will be in a position to contract for much of t he water service by t hat t ime Since bot h the power project and pipeline project are privately owned the water service may yery well be sold to others upstream pulp mjlls or municipalities before the oil shale industry is rearly for such service For this reason the Colonldo el Yalle y Ri pipeline should not be considered as being in competition wit h Ruedi Reser oir for t he same water use market the oil shale industry It might howe er be in a position at some time in the future to sup Oll facility with some water service l emain cser plement the Ruedi R mf unsold when the soil shale indust ry is established In response to the quest ion in the third parngmph of your letter I do not think the Ruedi development would necessarily ed the de spe velopment of the oil shale industry On the contrary as a citizen of Colorado I am fearful that all the western slope water will be put to other beneficial use before the oil shale indust ry materializes I t herefore think the Ruedi development is a most suhstnntial and nec essary factor to the oil shale development not to speed it but to as sure that water is reserved for its use Only the Government can afford to build a project which must wait a long time for its full use If Ruedi Resen oir is built this water lIlay be claimed and held for the oil shale industry until it needs t he water Vel J trui YOlll S I r GREER Ohief Engineer 1 35 RUED DAM AND RESERVOIR UNION OIL CO Los COLO PAXY OF Oalif Angele CALIFORXL No rmbel IS 1 95 9 Ca pt A S MILLER Director Naval Petroleum lId Oil Shale Reserves Depm tment of the Navy Washington D O DE R CAPTA I MILLER YOUI letter of No ember 4 9 to Fred 19 Hartley together with the report on Ruedi Dam and Reservoir in Colorado was forwarderl by Mr A C Rubel to me to am wer In my opinion the construction of t he R uedi ResP rvoir will have no material effect on the st arting time for beginning development of an oil shale industry Vorld crude oil supplies aud markets He t he con trolling factors at present However the construction of this re8e1 void could well be the controlling factor in determining how fast and how lnrge the oil shale industry C 1Il expand and develop after it is once sta rted Certainly a minin1l1m sized ommercinl operation could be started and operated continuollsly without the cOl1strnction of this storage hut jw t flS certa inly t hp in lm try OlJld not grow an l nc develop to l An analysis of the Colorado extent without some upst ream st orage Rivp r Ao o P l ing t lw lnst fiO yp ll l S dp finitely onfil nls t his cOI1c lu sian Vith these thoughts in mind I would heartily endorse YOUI favor re able ommendutlOn for the construction of the Ruedi Reservoir as outlined in the Bureau of Reclamat ion report Sincerely yours F C BALL ilIa1lager New York Ca pt A N Y Oil Shale Project SHELL OIL Co November 30 59 19 S MILLER Department of the Navy l waIPetroleuma1ld Oil Shale ReBerves Washington D O DE R CAPTAIN MILLER Vl e have reviewed the report on Ruedi Dam and Resen oir Colo transmitted under cover of your letter dated November 4 1959 wherein you requested our comments regard ing t he effect such a project might have on the oil shale industry To date Shell Oil Co has not palticipated actively in any research effmt on the recovery of oil from oil shales however it is recognized that large and constant water supply will be a vital factor III any de elopment process Such a supply probably can be assured only by reservoir stDmge of surplus water which is available during the period of peak riverflow In this respect the proposed project would undoubtedly be important to the industrial growth of the area It is our feeling however that many other economic considerations are of equal importance and that construction of the Ruedi Dam and Reser voir Will not per se bring about a significant accelerat ion of oil shale development Very truly yours J E CLARK Vice Presia ent Production I 1 I 3856 RUEDl DAM AND RESERV01R O EATOl San Franc A sco 165 COLO SHALE CO Calif November 18 59 19 S MILLEn Dil ector Naval PetroleU1nand Oil Shale Reserves Department of the illavy Washington D O DEAR CAPTAIN MiILER Thank you for sending us with your letter of November 4 1050 a copy of the Bureau of Reclamation s report on the proposed Ruedi Dam nod Resen oir in Colorado In response to your question we do not belie e that the construc tion of this reservoir would materially speed the development of an oil shale industry in Colorado The controlling factor is the com parative economic position of shale oil in supplying the demands for Capt t r petroleum lith the ever growing energy needs shale oil in western Colorado will someday come into the picture but it is difficult to say just when this will occur One thing certain is that such an indust ry will re quire large quantities of water probably of the order of magnitude estimated by Cameron Tones Inc in its report to the Colorado Vater Conservation Board whIch is a part of the appended mate rial iu the Bureau of Reclamation report you sent us It would seem therefore that any program to provide water for western Colorado should make provision for the potential water needs of a shale oil industry wi be a significant We believe shale oil factor in the economic development of this area Very truly yours R E CLARKE President CITIES SERVICE OIL Co Bartlc8viUe Okla November 18 1959 DEPARTMENT OF THE N 4 VY D O 1V a 1ton hin AttentlOn Capt A S Miller Director Sbale Reserves fj Naval Petroleulll and Oil Veda not believe that the Ruedi Dam and Reservoir GENTLEMEN the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior would materially advance the beginning of an oil shale e it would materially industry in Colorado but we do be1ie speed the of that after its development industry begiIming We have no opinion concerning the relative alues of the Ruedi Dam and Reservoir project and other possible projects for increasing usable water supply III the Colorado River Valley proposed by Very truly 1 1 l yours W T CRAVENS Vice P esident Hefini119 Divi on 3 at 7 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR CO COLO TINENTAL Denvel 0010 OIL Co LV ovembel g5 1959 A S lIfrLLER USN Cap Director Na val Petroleum and Oil Shale Reser ves Depa tment of the Navy Washington D O DE R CAPTAIN lIfrLLER Thank you for your letter of November 4 1 abs serial 501 and the report on the proposed Ruedi DWJ your file Dam which were referred to us by our Houston office In reply to your J uestion Ye are of the pinion that the develop ment of a slulle 011 llldnstry IS not now bemg delayed by a hick of Economic factors appear to be far more important wliter supply lit presellt such as costs and the present oversupply of crude pe rkets mu troleum ftIlcl its products in both the domestic a nd foreign will the hctors economic these development of a Just when permit IarO e scale oil shale industry is a nlatter of opinion and certainly is to very precise determination at this time Ultimately the Colomdo oil shales may be developed and addi tional water supply may be required for the new industry and the nccomprmying population increase notsllbject Sincerely J W LIDDELL Vice President GAS Co SINCLAIR OIL Tulsa Okla January 4 1960 Cavt A S MiLLER USN Director Naval Petrolcum and Oil Shale Re erve8 Depart1nent of the Navy Wfl8hington D O DEAR Sm Your Jetter of November 4 1959 is licknowledged to 3el voir Re gether wit h a copy of n report on the R uedi Dam and Colo which was submi tted by the Acting Conunissioner Bureliu of Rechimat ion to the Secretary of the Interior on October 23 1959 Your request for our comments as to whether the construction of the Ruedi Dam and Reservoir would materially speed development of oil shale in Colorado or if the const ruction of the dam and reser voir would be a relatiyely unsubst antial factor iu the future develop ment of the oil shale industry has been give a careful consideration by our research and operating people Briefly we feel that the Ruedi Dam will not materially speed up the de elopment of oil shale but on the other hand we recognize that some steps must be taken to provide water for this new industry We know of no instance if it is ever to reach the commercial stage where the obvious shortage of water in the Colorado Riyer Basin has slowed down either the research work or the consideration of any eration We feel that oil shale simply has not reached commercialol the technological stage where the mundane problems of water supply On the ot her hand it seems obyious that have become important some long term solut ion to the water situation iu the oil shale country will be necessary before any large scale oil shale operation can be 1I supported I I I I I oJ 81 Q uV RUED DAM AND RESERVOIR COLO 167 e the estimates in t he brochme made by MI RusseII J helic Howe Cf 33 we un de r5t l d it the ppeul to be valid Ruedi Dam and ReselToir would only provide a fractIOn of the est imates and requirements made bv Ir Cameron mal In summation we can only e t he general statement that wat er wiII e be for the oil shale iJl ltLstry and if needed supply entnalIy the Ruedi Dam is more economical than other ways of taking t he first steps toward providing sl eh wa ter sUl ply it would be u benefit to the ultimate development of the oil hale industry e ron Cfune Ir a Very truly yours EDY KEN J B Executive Vice President THE Dow ICAL Co CJIE Feb 1 lary Mic 15 1960 iIlidla lld I I Capt A S fILLER Director Naval Petrolewn and Oil Shale Re8erlles U S Na y 1 I jMI 9tOIl DC DEAH l AIN ilIILLER In addition to CAP studying the report on Ruedi Dam and Reservoir ourselves we have taken the time to forward this material to our land consulta nt and to our legal adviser in Colol ndo This litIS caused some delny in answering your questions but since the future of the oil shale inrlustry is directly related to the future ita prosperity of western Colorado we felt t hese opinions were IVe are ad ised that ill Senate Document 80 oil shale development was included in the uses of water to be impounded in t he Ore en jIoun l lr In TI c ent ears there 1uLve b eTl indications that the t in R city of Dem er ill probably I et most of t he water in this resenoir nnot t hrough ler eastern slope diversion projeet Assuming t he loss of the Green lIoulltain Reservoir new sources of ater ill have to be found to foster oil shale development The Ruedi Dam IUld Reservoir would be sueh a Source ancI would provide water during the summer months when the entire flow of the rive r is now allocated Development of the oil shale industry would neces sitate a large population influx in western Colorado This population boom would create Heed for large new supplies of consumptive water for domestic purposes As a potential importer of many of these peo ple Dow is naturally interested in adequate water supply Our own industrial uses would consist hugely of cooling water whIch would be lab1e aSl di version but a ve ry sman consumptive use In summa ry we feel we can state that reservoir storage of wuter is absolutely essential to development of an oil shale industry The lrilll ry use of this wllter would be to support the increll ed popula tlOn and a secondary use would be to assure mdust rml dIversions dur ing dry yea rs Very truly s you PAULMEESKE Assistant to the Director of Purchaus o 1