Minutes of South Platte River Basin Flood Control Investigation Meeting

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'. MINUTES OF SOUTH PLATTE RIVER BASIN FLOOD CONTROL INVESTIGATION MEETING Tax Commission Hearing Room 2nd Floor, State Office Building Denver 2, Colorado January 23, 1959 The meeting was called to order by Mr. Felix L. Sparks, Director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board. He welcomed the group and stated the meeting had been called in order to attempt to coordinate an overall development program for the South Platte River. He explained that the Colorado Water Conservation Board has increased its staff which will allow it to participate more actively in the planning for basin development which is a specific duty imposed upon the board by statute. He explained that the board hoped to give more help in the future; to participate both financially and by furnishing personnel for the various studies to be made on the South Platte River. Mr. Sparks also stated that Mr. Miller, the Supervising Project Engineer for the board, has the specific responsibility for the South Platte area; that most of the work done by the board would be coordinated with him and under his direction the board is prepared to furnish planning parties to do such work as may be necessary in cooperation with the Soil Conservation Service and the Corps of Engineers. The matter of trying to evolve a plan for flood control and protection on Sand Creek was the primary purpose of the meeting being held today Mr. Sparks said, and if it would fit in with the plans on the South Platte or if it had no relationship to the South Platte; and to determine what the various agencies are doing in this connection. He declared the board would furnish additional funds and personnel, as possible, to come up with the answer to the flood control problem. After asking if there were any specific questions to be asked by anyone attending the meeting, and since there were none, Mr. Sparks called on Mr. Gardner of the Corps of Engineers to explain their program in connection with this problem. MR. GARDNER: "You all know of course, there was a flood control project developed and approved by the Congress some ten or fifteen years ago and authorized in 1950, but we did not get busy and build it and the Martin people moved in on the Chatfield site. We got authority to review that, report to see if we could come up with a revised plan for the South Platte or if we should start -1-