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RECONIlKENDATIONS <br />The followings steps are recommended to reconstruct Big Battlement <br />Dam and Reservoir: <br />1. The City's negotiations with the hydropower company and the <br />aquaculture company are assumed to continue. If the negotiations <br />are fruitful and if most of the cost of reconstruction can be <br />repaid by one or both of these companies, then the following steps <br />to reconstruct the dam are recommended. If the negotiations are <br />discontinued, then it is assumed that the reconstruction will be <br />delayed until other companies step forward or the City needs the <br />water. There is the potential that the State Engineer will require <br />that the dam be breached if repair plans are not moving forward. <br />Schedule not known, but soonest is spring of 1994. <br />2. Coordinate with the Granby Ditch and Reservoir Company to <br />select a consulting engineer and contractor to perform the work. <br />Obviously the City will have the greatest input because their <br />project is the largest. Soonest spring of 1994. <br />3. Perform necessary materials tests on the embankment and borrow <br />area soils. In conjunction with the materials tests, the <br />contractor, and State Dam Safety Engineer; the Consulting Engineer <br />will prepare plans, specifications, and a construction plan to <br />reconstruct the dam. Soonest early summer of 1994. <br />4. Evaluate the estimated costs to determine that the project is <br />still feasible. Initiate the CWCB financing process. Soonest late <br />summer of 1994. <br />5. Apply for permits from the US Forest Service for access to the <br />dams and for borrow material. The permits would include Granby <br /># 12 , Big Battlement and any other repairs needed at dams in the <br />area. Assistance from the State Engineer and the CWCB Director may <br />be necessary to obtain the permits. Soonest for permit <br />applications is late summer of 1994; soonest permits are received <br />is summer of 1995. <br />6. Construct the repairs. The work must begin as soon as snow and <br />weather conditions allow because the work at all of the dam sites <br />will require all or most of the summer season. Soonest is summer <br />1996. <br />Big Battlement Dam 17 <br />