Ruedi Dam is on the
Fryingpan River about 15 miles east of Basalt, Colorado. The dam
creates a reservoir with a total capacity of 102,369 acre-feet.
Ruedi Dam is a rock and earthfill structure that stands about 285 feet
high above streambed, has a crest length of 1,042 feet, and contains
approximately 3,745,200 cubic yards of material.
The concrete
spillway structure has an uncontrolled ogee-type crest, a chute section, a
stilling basin, and a bridge over the spillway. The spillway has a
capacity of 5,540 cubic feet per second. The outlet works, located
under the right abutment of the dam, consists of hexogonal intake
structure with trashracks and a bulkhead gate, a 10-foot-diameter
concrete-lined horseshoe tunnel to a gate chamber housing a 5- by 6-foot
high-pressure gate, an 11 foot diameter concrete-lined horseshoe tunnel to
a gate chamber housing 5- by 6-foot high-pressure gate, an
11-foot-diameter concrete-lined horseshoe tunnel with a 76-inch-diameter
steel pipe, a control house with two sets of 3.5- by 4-foot tandem gates
and to a 76-inch-diameter steel pipe stub with a bulkhead just ahead of
the control house. This bulkhead is to provide service to a future
pipeline which will supply water to the potential Basalt Project. A
shaft house and adit give access to the gate chamber of the outlet works
and auxiliary works. The capacity of the outlet works is 1,810 cubic
feet per second.
The auxiliary outlet
works consists of an intake structure with trashracks, a 6-foot-dia meter
concrete-lined circular tunnel to agate chamber housing of set 2.5- by
3-foot tandem gates, and a concrete-lined 5- by 6-foot flat bottom tunnel.
The capacity of 600 cubic feet per second.
A concrete bypass,
consisting of a concrete chute and stilling basin, bypasses flows of Rocky
Fork Creek past the discharge of the spillway and auxiliary outlet
