WSP09265

• File Number: 8443.600
• Description: Narrows Unit - Studies
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 8/1/1966
• Author: DoI, BoR
• Title: Summary of the Preliminary Report on the Narrows Unit, Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

Land requirements for a reservoir are based on the storage

space needed to operate the reservoir to meet project water

requirements and to obtain maximum flood control benefits, to

provide for storage of water for beneficial use, and to provide

for fish and wildlife and recreational development consistent

with the authorizing legislation.

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It is the policy of the Bureau of Reclamation to acquire
fee title to lands that will be inundated or which are subject to
frequent flooding. Fee title will also be acquired for lands needed
for fish and wildlife and recreational development where Congress

has provided money for purchase of lands for these purposes.

In general, title to lands which will be infrequently flooded
will be left with the owner and a flowage easement will be obtained

to permit temporary flooding of such land as may occur. Under a

flowage easement, the owner retains the right to cultivate and use

the land when such use will not interfere with the rights granted
under the flowage easement.

Under this policy it is possible for part of an ownership to

be acquired in fee, another part to be covered by a flowage easement,

and still another portion of the ownership to remain unaffected. In

conformance with normal real estate practices, the area to be

acquired in fee will be blocked out as nearly as possible along

property ownership lines, or regular land subdivisions.