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east in the Bijou Creek basin, which also experienced serious flooding <br />in 1965, we are looking at sites on the West Bijou, Middle.Bijou, and <br />Big Muddy Creeks. The yellow dots on the slide, at Golden, Boulder, <br />Longmont, Loveland, Fort Collins, Greeley, Fort Morgan, and Brush, <br />Colorado represent sites of potential local protection projects. <br />At the request of the city of Morrison, we are taking steps to <br />re- evaluate a local protection project that was authorized in 1944 but <br />failed to materialize because of insufficient local support. Morrison - <br />is located on Bear Creek just at the upstream end of the proposed Mt. <br />Carbon reservoir. <br />Another project, authorized by Congress in 1950 but presently in <br />a deferred status, would provide a system of agricultural levees along <br />the South Platte River downstream from Denver to the mouth of St. Vrain <br />Creek, a distance of 40 miles, and at other selected locations along the <br />river on downstream to Ft. Morgans <br />VU -GRAPH PROJECTOR OFF <br />CONCLUSION <br />Our over -all study of the South Platte River basin is scheduled for <br />completion the latter part of 1969. By that time, we should at least <br />have authorization for the Mt. Carbon project, and construction of the <br />Chatfield project should be at about the halfway mark. Completion of the <br />South Platte study will give us a definitive view of what can be done to <br />solve many of the other problem. ; of the basin. We recognize, of course, <br />the necessity and the desirability of coordinating these studies with <br />other agencies to determine the most efficient approach to solving the <br />