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

Ruedi Dam
Type:  Earth and rockfill
Location:  On the Fryingpan River about 15 miles east of Basalt, Colorado
Construction period:  1964 - 1968
Ruedi Reservoir:  Total capacity to Elevation 7766:  102,369 acre feet
Active capacity:  101,280 acre feet
Surface area:  997 acres
Dimensions:  Height above streambed:  285 feet
Top width:  30 feet
Maximum base width:  1,453 feet
Crest Length:  1,042 feet
Crest Elevation:  7788.0 feet
Tot volume (embankment):  3,745,200 cubic yards