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',I i OlCW__ Water Division 2 kayaks, canoes, rafts and other types of recreational water crafts, and to establish and maintain fish habitat for piscatorial and other purposes. This whitewater boating course will be known as the Arkansa~ River Legacy Whitewater Park (the "Whitewater Park"). The White water Park will include a boat chute/fish ladder to allow kayaks, boats and other recreational water craft, as well as native and sport fish, to pass over an existing 13-foot high diversion structure in the river known as the Southern Colorado Power Plant or West Plains Energy diversion dam (the "Power Plant Diversion"). A series of approximately seven smaller, permanent control structures will then be constructed in the river between the Power Plant Diversion and the Union Street Bridge to create self-scouring pools and to divert and control the flow of the riv~r at specific points to create various wave forms desirable for whitewater kayaking and recreational boating. These structures will be constructed in Ii reach of the river that is approximately 2,000 feet in length. The Whitewater Park will extend downstream to include a boat chute or chutes in the Arkansas River at the location of the existing St. Charles Mesa Water District diversion structure, located just downstream from the Santa Fe Street bridge in Pueblo, near Moffat Street (the "Moffat Street Chute"). The initial constniction work on the Moffat Street Chute was completed in the 1980s. Completion of the Moffat Street Chute will enhance and increase the length of the Whitewater Park. . Access to the Whitewater Park will be available from various upstream locations, including at Pueblo's City Park, and at other points along the paved, public trail that parallels the Arkansas River through Pueblo, including the length of the Whitewater 'Park. One anticipated put-in location for kayaks is a point on the south side of the river just below the Fourth .Street bridge, with an anticipated take-out location at a point on the south side of the river just above the Union Street bridge. . 3. Name of Structures. The Arkansas River Legacy Whitewater Park. The control structures comprising the Whltewater Park will be numbered consecutively from upstream to downstream as follows: Structure 1 (at the location of the Power Plant Diversion) Structure 2 Structure 3 Structure 4 Structure 5 Structure 6 Structure 7 , , Structure 8 Uust upstream from the Union Street bridge) Structure 9 (at the location of the Moffat Street Chute) 4, Legal Description of Structures. The location map attached to and incorporated in this application as Exhibit 1 identifies the general location of the Whitewater Park . 2