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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 0031':;3 Shelters, a swimming area and fishing pier at Lake Hasty, a recreational vehicle dump station, and a fish cleaning station. Lake Hasty covers about 75 acres and is located below the dam and is a small lake that derives from ground water that has filled a gravel quarry area. The Lake Hasty Campground has 2 comfort stations that meet the Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards, a shower facility, and a total of 65 campsites that are equipped with picnic tables and fire rings. Reservable campsites total 37, of which, 3 I have electric and water connections. There is a designated area for overflow camping. There are 2 universally accessible comfort stations in areas outside of the Lake Hasty Campground, each on either side (east and west) of Lake Hasty; one being near the universally accessible fishing pier and the West Group Shelter and the other near the East Group Shelter and day-use areas. Compo sting vault toilets are provided at the Cottonwood (Girl Scout House) Shelter and the Lake Hasty swimming area. The Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe National Historic Trail traverses an upland area of the John Martin Project on the north side of the reservoir (Figure 2). The Corps has developed the Red Shin Hiking Trail that begins in the Lake Hasty Recreation Area below the dam, encircles the area, and proceeds to the Santa Fe Trail Marker, placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution in the I 920s, on the north shore of the reservoir upstream of the dam. All public use in the Lake Hasty Recreation Area below the dam is managed. The Sandstone Recreation Area includes 2 boat launching ramps and a vault comfort station. The Overlook Recreation Area includes a vault comfort station and picnic facilities. The Corps has no designated campsites in either area or any picnic facilities in the Sandstone Recreation Area; therefore, camping and day-use has been allowed and, at this time, is unrestricted. The Bent County Recreation Area is for day-use only and no facilities are provided. Unrestricted day-use and overnight camping is allowed, around the reservoir, in all other areas upstream of the dam. The reservoir at the top of the flood control pool (elevation 3,870 feet) would have 17,151 surface acres, would be approximately 14.8-miles long with an average width of about 1.9 miles, and would have a storage capacity of 603,465 acre-feet. Storage capacity at the top of the conservation pool (elevation 3,851 feet) is approximately 333,912 acre-feet and would have 11,449 surface acres. Shoreline at the top of the conservation pool is 47.0 miles. The Corps currently has nine full-time and three temporary employees for operations and maintenance (O&M), recreation and natural resources management. During the summer months, the Corps adds an additional six temporary employees. The Corps contracts with several entities for O&M purposes and has service contracts for such activities as grass mowing and trash hauling from the Recreation Areas. The Corps also has an agreement with the Bent County Sheriffs Department to assist in law enforcement at the Project. For many years, the Corps has had a lease agreement with the Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW) for management of the reservoir's surface water and the majority of the Corps fee land upstream of the dam (17,330 fee land acres) for wildlife conservation (Figure 2). The acreage leased to CDOW for wildlife conservation excludes the Sandstone and Overlook Recreation Areas, although temporary wildlife closures are sometimes necessary in these Corps' recreation areas for the protection of migratory and threatened and endangered species (bird) and 2