South Platte Steering Committee Meeting Minutes

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t a of Engineers that they would have their full coop- eration. He also thanked the state for their active interest in the activities. Harold Davis prepared a report for that meeting. That's all I have on this statement I have here. Joe Barrett discussed the effect of ground water flows and effect of pumping which must be studied in detail and also the problem of ground water recharge. There was one question that came up and that was the problem of the Burlington ditch losing the Denver sewage water for irrigation by the movement of the metropolitan sewage plant downstream to the mouth of Clear Creek. Those things need to be evaluated. The evaluation and merits of the Weld County and Narrows sites and the control of Bijou bene- fits indicated there were not enough to provide flood control for the Bijou Creek in the Narrows site. He said that even the channel from Bijou Creek to the Narrows Reservoir was not justified. 'Glenn Saunders asked a question whether flood protection for the Englewood area on the South Platte was to be included in the plan, the basin -wide study. Russell Wiethop, Corps of Engineers, stated that the Corps' plan at the present time had not included that but he knew that they would include all the areas that were problem areas in the Basin study for flood con- trol. Mr. Sparks, at that time, stated that they expected the Missouri Basin Power Fund to parti- cipate in the cost of the construction of this project. He explained that the amount of parti- cipation would be the monies in excess of the ability of the farmers to repay for the irriga- tion portion of the project. The way I have my notes here, I don't think I have a whole lot to offer, gentlemen. I'd rather, after this meeting, rewrite this and pre- pare it as a written statement rather than prepare -2-