BOARD00021

• Board Meeting Date: 7/12/1965
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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I think the first of these that I should
mention is the Narrows Project. It is one
that was authorized at one time, construction
started, there was a long delay, and at a
meeting of your Board just a few months ago
we had a decision that permitted us to go
forward with the feasibility studies of the
Harrows Project as we now envision it today.
He have a general schematic map hanging on the
pipe (pointing) that shows the Narrows damsite
and the reservoir area. The damsite is located
about five miles upstream from the City of
Fort Horgan.

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During the last couple of \-leeks \~e have
had devastating floods that have gone down the
Platte River, one of them starting at Plum
Creek above the City of Denver. Numerous tribu-
taries and the South Platte itself were at very
high stages. A flood crest passed Fort Morgan
and Sterling that was devastating to property
and to irrigation systems along the way. The
Narrows unit would have been a very valuable
flood control project with an occurrence such
as we have recently experienced.

The status of the studies on the Harrows
is that feasibility work has progressed to a
state where we are anticipating completion of
the feasibility grade report by October. The
recent flood has caused renewed interest in the
handling of Bijou Creek, because it reached a
very high crest and passed through the Platte
basin do\-mstream from the Narrows damsite and
contributed to very significant flood damages.

In past studies we have considered the
construction of a dike from the main dam that
\-lould cut off Bijou Creek before it enters the I
South Platte River. This would also involve 'a
channelization from Bijou Creek into the body
of the reservoir to handle the sediment and the
general path of the \-later. NO\'1 this dike has,
to date, been considered infeasible because the
benefits that would be assessed by the Corps oi
Engineers for control of Bijou would not justify