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4 <br />Fish and Wildlife Development. This request was not granted as it <br />would change the storage requirements for the Chatfield Reservoir�a <br /> j would require a sponsor or sponsors to provide water rights and cost <br />sharing. <br />The proposed P. L. 566 flood prevention project on Plum Creek could <br />provide a proportion of the space requested by the Bureau of Sport <br />Fisheries and Wildlife for Public Recreational Development in the <br />Chatfield Reservoir and at no change of flood prevention or sediment <br />storage capacity in the Chatfield Reservoir and at no loss in floodwater <br />and sediment benefits to downstream areas. <br />Since there now appears to be no entity that has either the necessary <br />water rights or funds for cost sharing in the construction of multiple <br />purposes in the Chatfield, it is reasonable to expect that after the <br />Chatfield Dam is built there will be extensive public pressures for <br />recreational uses in the reservoir. So much so that one will be <br />incorporated as soon as a good water year occurs. <br />This possibility should not be questioned as is evidenced by the <br />recreational uses of the Cherry Creek and John Martin Reservoirs. <br />Based upon the very definite possibility of this occurring soon <br />after °-he single purpose Chatfied Dam is built, public fishing and <br />recreation could be incorporated in the Chatfield at no loss in planned <br />capacities due to the estimated capacities available for substitution <br />in the proposed Plum Creek structural programs. The recreational <br />