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3 <br />damage reduction to the Metropolitan Area, but it would be possible to <br />prorate to Plum Creek a portion of the Chatfield benefits above 1.1 <br />to 1. <br />Plum Creek is approximately 11 percnnt of the drainage area above <br />Chatfield and is also the major contributor of floodwater and sediment <br />runoff, both in proportion to its size and to its proximity to the <br />Chatfield Reservoir. The Plum Creek Watershed should be allotted at <br />1 least 11 percent of the benefits of the Chatfield Reservoir--- - <br />approximately $400,000 annually. However, when considering that the <br />Plum Creek floodwater and sediment volumes would be re- reservoired in <br />Chatfield approximately 30 to 50 percent; perhaps the downstream benefits <br />allotted upstream would be 50 percent of the areal percent or about <br />5 percent of the downstream benefits. This would then approximate <br /> is <br />$200,000 annually. <br />II. In the opinion of private, Federal, and State people, there <br />are not sufficient Public Recreational Area to service the present <br /> i <br /> f - population of the Denver Metro Area adequately and the need for expanding <br />Public Recreational Areas should increase as the projected population <br /> F' <br />becomes valid. <br />Recognition of this situation has been made by the Fish and <br />Wildlife Service, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, the Bureau of <br />Outdoor Recreation, and the Colorado Game, Fish and Parks Department. <br />The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife requested the Corps of <br />Engineers to dedicate the 20,000 acre-foot sediment pool and an additional <br />10,000 acre -feet of flood storage in the Chatfield Reservoir to Public <br />