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<br />reservoir;; was expressed, an effort was made by the Division of
<br />Water Resources to locate sites where dams might be built to serve
<br />the various needs of the valley. For these, purposes it would be
<br />necessary that, the dams control substantial portion;; of t.he drainage
<br />ilrea and yet. be locat.ed far enough upstream to serve as much of the
<br />valley as possible.
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<br />The Strawn Reservoir Site
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<br />From the standpoint of physical features of the basin, the logical
<br />location for one reservoir on the Neosho river is obviously at some
<br />point immf'diately below the mouth of the CotLonwood river. On
<br />the basis of limited information available at that time, and a pre-
<br />liminary examination which was made of the area, it appeared that
<br />a site was available just above Burlington, The attention of engi-
<br />neers of the War Department was directed to this loeation. Pre-
<br />liminary topographic surveys which they made indieate that ade-
<br />quate eapaeity could not be developed there. Further exploration,
<br />however, revealed a location nearer lola where a reservoir of the
<br />needed capacity could be constructed. Although this site has many
<br />favorable features, it is located far down in the valley, thus limit-
<br />, ing the area which would be benefited by it. For this reason, the
<br />location, was not regarded as being altogether satisfactory. Con-
<br />sequently, upon undertakirlg the preparation of a comprehensive
<br />plan for the Neosho basin, a further search was made for a reservoir
<br />oite in the area between Burlington and Emporia. This reoulted in
<br />the discovery of the site at Straw~.
<br />The Strawn dam site is located along a line extending in a general
<br />northeastward direction from a point near the middle of the south
<br />side of section 29 to a point near the center of the NWl;t of section
<br />22, all in T. 20 S., R. 14 E., Coffey county. The distance across the
<br />vaHey at this location is approximately two miles. A dam capable
<br />of st.oring water to a depth of about 40 feet at the dam would create
<br />a reservoir of adequate capacity, A map of the reoervoir is shown
<br />in Figure 3.
<br />The department is engaged on studies to determine what extremes
<br />of flood discharge may be expected to occur at this location. The
<br />most severe flood conditions at the site would result, of course, from
<br />heavy precipitation concentrated in the drainage basin above the
<br />dam.
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