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<br />I <br /> <br />The Chatfield plan failed. It didn't <br />have the right selling job to begin with, and <br />perhaps the plans were a little over-ambitious <br />also. As contemplated, it would have had a <br />capacity of about 200,000 acre-feet and would <br />substantially inundate all of the South Platte <br />Valley. above the city of Littletcn. The dam <br />is about three miles upstream fr0m Littleton. <br />It would t~,e practically all the highways <br />through that area arid all thc land. !t wonld <br />have controlled, without i'''"(/ 6.:'. ffj.cl1.1ty, the Ph",1 <br />Creek flood. As a matter of fact, that flood <br />\'lould have hit that dain and jus.c flattened out. <br />You wouldn't have known tha'c the flood hardly <br />existed. There would have been zero damages <br />downstream from that dam had it been there. <br /> <br />The status of that dam today is that, as <br />Mr. Slizeskihas alr~ady mentioned, we have <br />requested - everyone has requested, not only <br />us but almost everybody in Denver - that this <br />study be reinitiated. Ne have had some coordi- <br />nating conferences with the corps and with the <br />Bureau on the matter. Chatfield Drum, as origin- <br />ally designed, was to t~,e care of not only <br />Plum Creek but the South Platte River as \'lell. <br />Now with the ~'lo Forks coming on, and we are <br />certain that the Two Forks will be constructed, <br />it is not necessary to build Chatfield to the <br />size as originally planned. Chatfield can be <br />designed to take care only of the inflow belo~'l <br />Two Forks plus plum Creek. Its size can be <br />scaled down considerably. ~Je call eliminate <br />much of the expensive relocation of highways, <br />railroads, etc.. I think on a reduced scale it <br />is a feasible project. ~lis is the type of <br />plan the Corps hopes to proceed with immed- <br />iately if it can get the funds. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />On the Arkansas we have nothing in the <br />mill whatsoever which would have taken care of <br />the floods below John Hartin except again, the <br />Corps of Engineers, under the Flood Control <br />Act of 1960, had commenced general flood plain <br />studies on the ArkansaG. <br />