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RESOLUTION <br />N"HEREAS, the Bureau of Reclamation, or the corps of army engineers, proposes to <br />build a dam across the Platte River approximately eight miles northwest of Fort <br />Morgan, Colorado, to be known as the'Narrows Dam, and <br />-TIEREAS, the proposed dam, if constructed, will destroy approximately 6 1 000 acres <br />of the most productive and highly improved irrigated land in Morgan County, in <br />addition to depriving approximately 1,000 acres of land under the Riverside Ditch <br />from a satisfactory market for farm products, and <br />WHEREAS, approximately sixty farmers under the Weldon Valley'Ditch will be deprived <br />of their homes and farms, and <br />V!JHEREAS, three towns, <<Jeldona, Goodrich and Orchard, will be within the boundaries <br />of the Narrows Dam project and will be forced to evacuate, and <br />VffIEREAS, Morgan County will lose a large x eage of valuable cultivated and irri— <br />gated land, and be deprived of the revenue and taxes derived from the use of this <br />land, and <br />WHEREAS, the oldest residents of Morgan County know of but one year during the last <br />fifty years that any damage has been done to agricultural farm lands outside of the <br />first river bottom, which is not productive, and <br />R[HEREAS, this proposed dam will necessitate moving the Union Pacific Railroad line <br />for a distance of approximately thirty miles and constructing expensive ditches, <br />roads and bridges, and <br />LdHEREAS, the entire project is detrimental to the social and economic interests <br />of this county, <br />THEREFORE, BE IT RE6OLVED that we vigorously oppose the building of the Narrows <br />Dam project and urge car, representatives and benators in Congress to use their <br />best influence in preventing the construction of this dam; and that the Secretary <br />of this Club be instructed to forward to each of our Representatives and Senators, <br />a copy of this Resolution. <br />This resolution was passed unanimously at a regular meeting of the Brush Civic <br />Club, Brush, Colorado,June 6, 1949. <br />RECOIvP.. OF <br />BRUSH CIVIC CLUB TO THE COLORADO i " ATER CO, LIV A.mIJI' :I BOARD RELATIVE TO <br />FLOOD PROTECTION ON THE SOUTH PLATTE RIVER AiND b11 -Ill REFERENCE TO THE <br />NARROTTS D.AIJ PROJECT <br />— December 3, 1951 — <br />The Brush Civic Club, of Brush, Morgan County, Colorado, after due delibera— <br />tion and discussion of the proposed Narrows Dam Project on the South Platte River <br />and after full consideration of the facts and problems, has concluded: <br />