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29J'~ -6- STATEMENT OF PROPOSED PLAN TO CONTROL THE FLOOD \'lATER AllD SILT OF THE BIJOU CREEK AND ITS TRIBUTARIES, KIOWA CHEEK AND TRIBUTARIES. .:ITH RELATIOlI TO THE PROPOSED NARROWS DAM TO THE COIDP.ADO STATE "ilTER CONSERVATION BOARD 1st Build cams on all gullies and tributaries of Bijou and Kiowa Creeks. By this we mean to build a dam or a series of dams in every draw, gully or small dry creek that shows any evidence of contributing water to the main Bijou or Kimva Creeks. Dams should be built with cement overflow spillways to take care of any abnormal runoff. hlso h~ve a valve contro~led outlet so that after a heavy rain or melting of snow the water can be held until silt has settled, then allow the clear water to flow through the gate in a small ~uanLity on down to the main dry creek bed there to perculate dawn through t:~~ sand and be added to the exist- ing under ground water. Silt so trapped by the small dams could be used to enlarge and strengthen the same dame in preparation for a flood of the 1935 volume. 2nd Restore the reservoirs of the Nile irrigation system and build new ones. There are still three of the Nile Reservoirs in existence today, Records slo.ow sites for nine more, and that only extended as far south as the point where the Bijou branches int.o the East and .Iest Bijou. Therefore. there would be many more sites above this point. The total storage of the twelve Nile reservoirs as given in the county records is 85,000 acre feet. Now water impounded in the upper reservoirs could be shunted through canals and the dry creek chanels to reservoirs dryNn stream if necessary., After the silt settle out of the vrater the clear water should be released into the dry stream chanel to run slrynly down; therefore, giving plenty of time to perculate into the sand and go down to be stored in the under ground sand and gravel stratus. " Our top soil is seldom more than two feet to eight feet in depth with underlying stratus of sand and gravel down to shale. The shale depth ranges from BO feet from the surface at the South Morgan County line to 240 feet four miles north of ,figgins. The"efore, there is no dar:[er of land souring as the clear water is released to the main Bijou and Kj,ol'.'~ d~"y chanels and allowed to perculate down into the sands to be stored ur.der g"'vuncl. Silt collected in these reservoirs could be hauled to sandy farms near by. and held to enrich such a farm. School District #50, which is located in the Bijou and Kiowa Valleys is comprised of: