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Ruedi Reservoir is a reservoir on the West Slope of the Continental Divide on the Fryingpan River. It sits about upstream of the town of Basalt, Colorado, near Aspen.〔U.S Department of the Interior: "Water and Power resources Service, Project Data." U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981〕 The reservoir is located within the White River National Forest, and straddles the county line between Pitkin County and Eagle County. The reservoir and its Ruedi Dam were built from 1964 through 1968. They're both owned and operated by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. One purpose of the reservoir is to help compensate for diversions to Colorado's East Slope, taken further up in the Fryingpan Basin as part of Reclamation's federal Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. Another purpose of the reservoir is to provide water for West Slope interests.〔 The dam is located in Eagle County. Ruedi stores approximately of water.〔 Water in the reservoir is released through Ruedi Dam down the Fryingpan primarily for municipal, industrial, and agricultural interests. A side benefit of the reservoir is recreation. Boating, fishing and camping are popular at the reservoir itself, while the downstream portion of the Fryingpan River has become well regarded as a Gold Medal fishery. In the 1980s, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the presence of four endangered fish in the Upper Colorado River Basin. After a lengthy public process, it was decided that Ruedi Reservoir would become one of the sources of water in the recovery efforts of the fish and their habitat. Typically, releases from Ruedi follow a seasonal pattern. The USGS page for streamflow below Ruedi Dam provides up-to-date information for water released to the Lower Fryingpan in cubic-foot -per-minute measurements. Before the construction of the dam, this portion of the Frying Pan River, especially the three miles that flowed through Red Nelson's farm, was by far the best fly water in the state, with exquisite feeding channels and boulder pools. While the reservoir offers a playground for watercraft enthusiasts, you should have fished the Frying Pan before the BLM put in the dam. World class fly fishermen regarded that section of stream as one of the best in the world, exceeding the lower Rio Malleo in Patagonia, before developers punched a new road into the Mapuche reservation, or the Upper Rio Grande on the Chilean side of Tierra del Fuego. Image:Ruedi Reservoir, dam and the Fryingpan River corridor near Basalt, Colo..JPG|Looking eastward, upstream, on the Fryingpan River to Ruedi Dam and Reservoir just east of Basalt, Colo. Image:Ruedi Dam.JPG|Looking from south to north across the crest of Ruedi Dam near Basalt, Colo. Image:Rocky Fork Day Use area along the Fryingpan River.JPG|Rocky Fork Day Use area along the Fryingpan River File:Morning at Ruedi Reservoir.JPG|Looking east across Ruedi Reservoir at dawn. File:Ruedi Reservoir in light fog.JPG|Looking west towards Ruedi Dam across Ruedi Reservoir. File:Ruedi Reservoir and Aspen Yacht Club marina.jpg|Looking west across Ruedi Reservoir and the Aspen Yacht Club marina in late afternoon. ==See also== * *List of largest reservoirs of Colorado 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruedi Reservoir」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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