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    This file library contains available source material related to the 10825 alternatives and the Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program. If you have additional information that you would like to share with this group via this file library, please contact Grand River Consulting.

Key 10825 Study Reports

  • Integration of Draft Comments into Final Selected Alternative Report, April 2009
    click here (size: 3.61MB)
  • Assessment of Ruedi and Granby Alternatives December 2008
    click here (size: 8.01MB)
  • 2008 Late Summer and Fall Operations Report of the HUP Managing Entities and Water Managers click here (size: 1.88MB)
  • 10825 Water Supply Summary (Phase 2) January 2008
    click here (size: 6.5MB)
  • The “Phase 1 Alternatives Matrix” lists key points for each alternative.
    click here
    The matrix is easiest to read printed on 11x17” paper.
  • Executive Summary of Phase 1 Alternatives
    click here (size: 3.5MB)
  • Phase 1 Report-Screening of Water Supply Alternatives
    click here (size: 49MB)
  • GEI Design & Cost Estimates for 10825 Water Supply Study Alternatives
    click here (size: 56MB)

      GEI has completed the design and cost updates for the 10825 structural alternatives for your review. GEI’s October 2007 final draft includes project location and descriptions, site geology, site hydrology and hydraulics, dam site features, appurtenant facilities, other considerations and cost estimates as of 2007. The sites studied in this report include dam and reservoir facilities proposed at Sulphur Gulch, Buzzard Creek, Yank Creek, and Roan Creek as well as a 15 mile pump back in Grand Junction and an enlargement at Wolford Mountain Reservoir. The report includes vicinity maps, dam layout, spillway plans and other related materials.

Endangered Fish Recovery Program

  • Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program: A Success Story
    click here (size: 1.95MB)
  • Recovery Program Final Programmatic Biological Opinion
    click here (size: 400kb)
  • Colorado-Big Thompson Project - Municipal Recreation Agreement
    click here (size: 650kb)
  • Memorandum of Agreement for the Interim Provision of Water to the 15-mile Reach of the Colorado River (Williams Fork Reservoir)
    click here (size: 200kb)
  • Memorandum of Agreement for the Interim Provision of Water to the 15-mile Reach of the Colorado River (Wolford Mountain Reservoir)
    click here (size: 200kb)
  • USFWS Letter Regarding CFOPS July 18, 2007
    click here (size: 1.7MB)
  • Study of Alternative Water Supplies for Endangered Fishes - 1992
    click here (size: 4.5MB)
  • 15 Mile Reach Flow / Habitat Relationships
    click here (size: 11MB)
  • Flow Regime Recommendations - Palisade to Rifle
    click here (size 3.3MB)

O.M.I.D.

  • O.M.I.D. Water Management Study - 2000
    click here size(6.5MB)
  • Grand Valley Water Management Project
    click here (size: 100kb)
  • Water Resources Conservation Plan for OMID, Proposal for System Improvements. California Polytechnic State University, January 2008
    click here (size: 2.2MB)

      This proposal provides a comprehensive Water Resources Conservation Plan for the district to conserve 17,000 acre-feet of water while incidentally improving the equity and reliability of water service. The total initial budget for this proposal is $15.2 million.

Sulphur Gulch

  • Selenium Source, Transport, and Fate Assessment for the Sulphur Gulch Reservoir, Colorado. Allen J. Medine, Ph.D, P.E., DEE. December 2006.
    click here (size: 31MB)
  • Case No. 99CW279, Final Judgement and Decree - 2007
    click here (size: 300kb)
  • Stipulation and Agreement - Case No. 99CW279 - 2007
    click here (size: 24MB)
  • Sulphur Gulch Feasibility Report - 2001, GEI
    click here (size: 24MB)

Buzzard Creek

  • Preliminary Evaluation of the Proposed Buzzard Creek Reservoir Project - 2004, Muller Engineering
    click here (size: 3.2MB)
  • Battlement Mesa Project Feasibility Report
    click here size(1MB)

Wolford Mountain

  • Evaluation of Alternatives for Enhancing the Yield of Wolford Mountain Reservoir - 2004, Muller Engineering
    click here (size: 1.2MB)
  • Enlargement Assessment Report Wolford Mountain Reservoir - 2006, BasePoint Design
    click here (size: 2MB)

Roan Creek

  • Roan Creek Partnership Project - 2002, Stantec
    Download the pdf here: Click here

Wolcott Reservoir

  • Wolcott Reservoir Feasibility Assessment - 2004, Grand River Consulting and GEI
    click here (size: 9.7MB)

Webster Hill

  • Analysis of New Storage Facility at Webster Hill Site - 2001, Brown and Caldwell
    click here (size: 900kb)

Grand Valley Lake

  • Grand Valley Water Project prepared by Don Clay
    Click here (size: 3MB)

Granby Reservoir

  • Historical Analysis of the Redtop Valley Ditch Use on the Miller-Hereford Ranch.BOYLE/AECOM - August 2008
    Click here (size: 10.01MB)

      This report by BOYLE/AECOM is a preliminary assessment of the potential water yield to Granby Reservoir associated with cessation of Redtop Valley Ditch irrigation on the Miller-Hereford Ranch. The preferred 10825 Water Supply alternative differs substantially from the alternative evaluated in this report. Supplemental information regarding the cessation of irrigation under the Redtop Valley Ditch in association with the preferred alternative is currently under development.

Yank Creek

  • Excerpts from Crystal River Basin Reservoir Study - 1998
    click here (size: 1MB)

Ruedi Reservoir

  • Ruedi Reservoir Repayment Workshop, April 13, 2009
    click here (size: 240KB)
  • Assurance / Repayment for Ruedi Reservoir files
      These two documents are pulled from the archives regarding the assurance of repayment for Ruedi Reservoir by the State of Colorado.
    clickhere (size:80kb)
    click here (size:160kb)
  • CRWCD - SECWCD Letter to USBR 05-27-2008
    clickhere (size:700kb)

      This letter from Eric Kuhn, CRWCD and Jim Broderick, SECWCD to Mike Collins, USBR asks questions regarding the use of Ruedi Reservoir for 10825 purposes.

  • Public Law 87-590 Document, Fry-Ark Authorization
    click here (size: 1.4MB)
  • Operating Principles, Fryingpan - Arkansas Project
    click here (size: 500kb)
  • Concepts For Use of Ruedi as 10,825 Source, CRWCD July 25, 2007
    click here (size: 100kb)
  • Ruedi Reservoir Background and Operations, USBR 2007
    click here size: (300kb)
  • Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Ruedi Round II Capitol Costs, USBR 2007
    click here (size: 200kb)
  • Ruedi Reservoir Capacities and Allocations, USBR 2007
    click here (size: 42kb)
  • Ruedi Annual Update 2007
    click here (size: 1.4MB)
  • Ruedi Operation, Ownership, and User Diagram (CRWCD Teacup Diagram)
    click here (size: 1MB)
  • Finding of No Significant Impact
    Ruedi Reservoir 2012 Agreement - May 22, 2003
    click here (size: 1.14MB)

Synchronized Use of Multiple Facilities

  • Denver Water Letter Regarding Williams Fork Reservoir, March 19, 2007
    click here size: (size 100kb)