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<br />47', <br />In addition to i~creased pool area and the embankments, this alternative will require construction <br />of new outlet works and a spillway. Roads, utilities, ans structures, including the Ordway and <br />Sugar City wastewater treatment lagoons and nine homes and other buildings, will be affected <br />by the high water. Picnic areas and a boat launch facility will need to be relocated. <br /> <br />None of the proposed impact area has been subjected to a cultural resource inventory. No sites <br />have been recorded in the area. Three small surveys have been conducted in the vicinity of Lake <br />Meredith. No cultural resources were recorded during these inventories. The reservoir and its <br />facilities were constructed in 1926 and are still in use today. Several houses and the existing <br />reservoir facilities that may be directly or indirectly affected by reservoir enlargement were <br />observed during the field visit. <br /> <br />Since no survey has occurred within the study area and no sites have been recorded, the Lake <br />Meredith Enlargement is assigned a rank of I. Should this alternative be selected as a water <br />storage facility for Colorado Springs Utilities, the entire direct impact area and a buffer zone for <br />indirect impacts will require inventory, site recording and evaluation, including testing if needed, <br />and mitigation of significant cultural resources. <br /> <br />Gravel Lakes Storage <br /> <br />This alternative plans to convert a number of sand and gravel pits along the Arkansas River in <br />the vicinity of Pueblo to water storage facilities. The pits will have an average surface area of <br />100 acres and will store 1,500-2,000 acre feet of water. A total of 2,1 20 acres located east and <br />west of Pueblo are included in the Gravel Lakes study area, within which a total of 67 acres have <br />been inventoried for cultural resources. <br /> <br />Two historic sites, both located west of Pueblo, are recorded in the study area. One, the <br />Goodnight Barn, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The other, a War <br />Department marker, has been field assessed as not eligible to the NRHP. At least nine <br />unrecorded irrigation ditches, constructed 1861 to 1907, are located in within the Gravel Lakes <br />study area. <br /> <br />The Gravel Lakes Storage alternative is ranked 6. The gravel pits themselves will have been <br />mined out and any intact cultural deposition will have been destroyed. Any buffer area, ancillary <br />facilities including roads, pipelines. utilities, structures and recreational facilities would require <br />inventory, site recording where present, site evaluation, and, if significant, mitigation of affected <br />sites. A number of possible historic structures were observed on the Arkansas River floodplain <br />in the eastern gravel lakes area. Some of these may be affected by Gravel Lakes Storage and <br />would require recording and evaluation. <br /> <br />Williams Creek Reservoir <br /> <br />The Williams Creek Reservoir alternative proposes to construct a 6,500 foot long, 80 foot high <br />earthfill dam that would inundate an 1,100 acre area. A total of 1,787 acres were included in the <br />Williams Creek Reservoir study area. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />12 <br /> <br />Cultural Issues <br /> <br />.~ <br />