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WAR DE,PARTi LEH,, T
<br />United States Engineer Office
<br />1709 Jacirson Street
<br />Omaha., Nebraska
<br />March 1, llj- 1.
<br />Subject: Report on review of 3W report, Platte River, Colorado, ? ^TyominL',°,
<br />and Pebraska, House Document Dumber 197, 73d Congress, 2d
<br />session, on flood. control i'or Scar Creek, Colorado.
<br />To: The. Division Engineer, ,issouri River Divisio-r�, Kansas City, Vo.
<br />I. I:JTTR.ODUCTIO T AlaD L L ;SAL D- ,',SCRIRTIOFv
<br />A. INTRODtiCTION
<br />1. Authority fo,° roport. -Tihis reP ort is submitted under authority
<br />of a resolution. by the Committee on 'loos! Control, House of Representaa-
<br />tives, adoptaft Juice 16, 1939, l*hich :reads as follows:
<br />"RE
<br />SOLVED iry CO MITTEE Oil FLOOD COy ROL Or' THE
<br />HOUSE OF :APR SEi'TATIV 'S, 7Y,1 -TE ^n STAPES, That the 3oard
<br />of Engineers for Rivers and. Harbors, created udder Section
<br />3 of the River and Harbor Act a.-aproved Juno 13, 1902, be,
<br />and. is hereby req- acstod to review the roport on the Platte
<br />River, Colorado, flyomin, and 1\ebrasitia, r:Iade undcr the
<br />provisions of Holl.se Docuiaent numba:rc,'j. 308, Sixty -Ninth
<br />von -res8, first session, � -Jhich i /as anacte'd into lal,'j by
<br />section 1 of th;, ,ivcr amd Harbor Act of January% 21, 1n27,
<br />with a, viow to determining whether any modification should
<br />bo mad.a thorcin at this time with. respect to floor% control
<br />on 3rar Crock, Colorado.n
<br />2. Arra i"^"t;r ant of roport.- The rcy)ort is divided as .101lows:
<br />I. Intro d„ction a -ids E_;eneral doscription.
<br />II. Storrs and. flood charact-uristics.
<br />III.
<br />l'lroC_s and dar.Ia;�as.
<br />IV. flood control..
<br />V. Discussion.
<br />VI. Conclusions.
<br />VII. Rocomiilandations.
<br />Appmdix I. Cost estimates.
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<br />Apy)endix II. Transcript of p blic hearing.
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