WSP10698

• File Number: 8443
• Description: Narrows Unit
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 3/1/1976
• Author: US DoI BoR
• Title: Comments and reviews received and circulated by the Colorado State Clearinghouse regarding the Final Environmental Impact Statement
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: EIS

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DWIGHT M, BOWER
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PLANNING

January 12, 1976

Mr. catF:Oll W. Griffin
Bureau 0 Reclamation
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Denver Fede al Center
Denver, Colo ado 80222

Dear Mr. Griffln:

As you are aware, a meeting was held January 7, 1976, in Fort Morgan
to further discuss the roadway system and relocation of portions of the
present system necessitated by the planned construction of the Narrows
Da~. Participants were people from your office, Morgan County Com-
missioners, landowners from the affected area and our office. (Copy of
attendees is attached). The purpose of this letter is to document the
items discussed at that meeting and provide a record of positions taken in
regard to the Draft Environmental Statement for the "Narrows Unit" dated
December 8, 1975.

As you know, at one point in the discussions regarding the relocation
of S.H. 144, it was contemplated that S.H. 144 on the east end would only
be so relocated as to gain elevation to the crest of the dam, then carried
acrosS the top of the dam and end at the northeast (left) abutment of the
dam. All the remaining portions of S.H. 144 would be abandoned and a system
of county roads and county road relocations would be utilized to provide
continuity of route. (However, we would bring to attention that in 1965,
prior to the foregoing, it was proposed by the Bureau of Reclamation that
S.H. 144 would be relocated in a continuous loop around the north side of
the reservoir.)

In more recent discussions with the Morgan County Commissioners, they
have voiced strong objections to the stubbing out of S.H. 144 and placing
the. burden of'handling all the anticipated recreational traffic on county
roads. ' The attendant future maintenance and enforcement problems associated
with the 'anticipated volumes of traffic would put a severe strain on the
limited county forces and money available to them. It was their request
that either County Road U on the south side or a location roughly parallel-
ing the Riverside Canal on the,north be considered as a relocation of
S.H. 144.

As I stated at this meeting, we are now in concurrence with the Morgan
County Commissioners that to best serve the major recreational area (Jack-
son Lake) .on the north side, provide continuity of route, and alleviate the

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