WSP12256

• File Number: 8443.600
• Description: Narrows Unit - Studies
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 3/4/1985
• Author: US Dept. Interior
• Title: Final Supplement to the Final Enviromental Statement
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: EIS

Significant
environmental
and social
parameters

Transportation

Utilities

Population
dis~lacement

Reereat ion/fish
and wildlife
management

lableIX-! --Comparative environmental <md social Impacts of alternatives (continued)

No action

Nonmal transporta-
tion operation
expected.

No expected change.

No impact.

No expected change
other than continued
land closures to the
general public.

Modified selected
plan 1984

Requires relocation of
20.3 miles of State Highway
No. 144 and 3.3 miles of
county roads plus 12 miles of
road improvement. Relocation
of 27 miles of railroad track.
Building of two new bridges.

Requires abandonment of
74 miles of utility lines.
Relocation of 7 miles of
utility lines, 38 miles of
telephone lines, and 10 miles
of buried pipeline.

Relocation of 231 households
totaling 725 people.

Lands totaling 32,461 acres
would be acquired for project
operation. recreation, and
fish and wildlife development.
Of this total. 1,340 acres
would. be specifically acquired
for recreation and 6,758 acres
for fish and wildlife
development.

Selected plan 1976

Requires relocation of
30 miles of State Highway
No. 144 and 3.5 miles of
county roads. Relocation of
27 miles of railroad track.
Building of 2 new bridges.

Requires abandonment of
74,miles of utility lines.
Relocation of 7 miles of
utility lines, 38 miles of
telephone lines, and 10 miles
of buried pipeline.

Relocation of 220 households
totaling 825 people.

Lands totaling 42,585 acres
would be acquired for project
operation, recreation, and
fish and wildlife development.
Of this total, 970 acres would
be acquired specifically for
recreation and 7,170 acres for
fish and wildlife development.

Further ground-
water development

Nonnal transporta-
tion operation
expected.

No expected change.

No impact.

No expected change
other than continued
land closures to the
general public.

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Weld County
reservoir development

Requires relocation of
13 miles of ij.S. Highway
No. 34 and resurfacing of.
14 miles of county roads.
Relocation of 28.5 mi les and
railroad track. Building of
3 new bridges.

Requires abandonment of
29 miles of utility lines with
the construction of 37 miles
of new utility lines.

Relocation of approximately
300 people.

Lands totaling 45,497 acres
would be acquired in fee title
for project operation, recrea-
tion, and fi sh and wil dl ife
development. An additional
2,800 acres plus Jackson
Reservoir will be acquired for
future fish and wildlife
development.