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<br />~ <br /> <br />0302 <br /> <br />cI!".. ~ the 'Unit Jtt ~-wJt1s "eerk. ? <br /> <br />The Narrows Dam and Reservoir has been designed to fit into <br /> <br />a comprehensive plan for beneficial development of water resources <br /> <br />throughout the entire South Platte River Basin. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />The reservoir would be the terminal water storage and flood <br /> <br />control stI11cture on the river in Colorado. Thus, it could <br /> <br />recapture and regulate return flows from all upstream developnents, <br /> <br />present and future, that would not have to be bypassed because of <br /> <br />higher priority water rights. <br /> <br />During floods, operation of the Narrows Reservoir would be <br /> <br />coordinated and in~egrated with the operation <br /> <br />and flood detention strhctures to procure the <br /> <br />of upstream reservoir <br /> <br />maximum protection. <br /> <br />The original plan for the Narrows Unit, as developed in a <br /> <br />planning report prepared in 1951, included provisions for the <br /> <br />diversion of Bijou Creek floods into the Narrows Reservoir for <br /> <br />control. This potentiality was again analyzed following the flood <br /> <br />of June 1965. However, residents of the Bijou Valley are <br /> <br />interested also in upstream control and flood protection if this <br /> <br />alternative is at all possible. The Corps of Engineers currently <br /> <br />is studying the feasibility of such control; the Soil Conservation <br /> <br />SeYvice is also conducting a concurrent study. <br /> <br />~9 <br />