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-' r- ~ ..... c: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Region Three Santa Fe, New Mexico July 11, 1950 Memorandum To: Regional Director, Region 4 Bureau of Reclamation From: Associate Regional Director Subject: La Barge Diversion, wyoming '. During the conference in this office on May 19, Regional Planning Engineer Reid Jerman suggested that an inspection of La Barge Diversion site, on the Green River, could be made conveniently in connection with travel to that part of the valley in connection with other investigations. Final schedules for the field work out- lined with Mr. Sias of this offi os by Mr. Jerman in your office on June 21, confirmed the feasibility of such an inspection, and the area was visited qy Mr. Sias on June 26, accompanied by Mr. Paul H. Thomas, Field Engineer, from your Rock Springs office. The site of the proposed diversion from the Green River in southwest Sublette County, Wyonling, is a few miles east of the hamlet of Big Piney on U. S. 189. It is accessible via a fairly good country road which connects Big Piney with Boulder on U. s. 187. It is our understanding that it is now proposed to effect the minor diversion from the Green River by means of control head gate inlets and that no weir will be required. Even with possible minor weir facilities, should such prove to be necessary, resulting river impoundment would undoubtedly be very slight, only moderately flooding certain meadows on the east bank with a shallow pool. The terrain on the diversion side rises abruptly from the river into barren hills, sparsely furnished with semi-desert vegetation. Except for glimpses of distant mountains, the site has no scenic appeal. The National Park Service finds that recreational values would be neither destroyed nor created by developments necessary for the diversion. No National Park Service area or interest and no state park would be affected by this reclamation feature.