BOARD00469

• Board Meeting Date: 5/12/1976
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

(Slide) Here is a shot from the lake, showing the power plant. It
res ts kind of easy on the landscape. Once the denuded area has been
reseeded and we have had a chance to plant some trees and so fort-h, I
believe it will be quite environmentally acceptable.

(Slide) Moving downstream to the Pueblo Dam and Reservoir, the structure
which you people have had the opportunity to visit yesterday. We were I
most pleased to be bhe hosts for that visit. This is a shot taken
during construction. I think one of the interesting things here is
that in order to place a concrete structure, which is some fifteen to
sixteen hundred feet long and a hundred and ninety-one feet high, it
takes substantial equipment, some pretty tall equipment. Well, the
contractor elected to build a trestle right within the section of the
dam. The columns which support this trestle go right down into the
concrete, or rather the concrete comes up around the columns as the
structure is completed.

These columns are still in the concrete. In other words, as the concrete
came up and they got to the finish lines, they blocked out a section
about three feet by three feet by three feet deep, and when they took
out the trestle, they simply took a cutting torch, cut off the columns
and filled' these blocked out sections with concrete.

-So a certain portion of this trestle work is still in the dam. These
cranes, the gantry portion of this thing, in other words, the supporting
section is wide enough so that we had two sets of railr,oad tracks
running down in between the legs to accommodate concrete cars which
hauled buckets, individual buckets, picked up by the cranes and placed
by the bucketful into this very.intricate bunch of form work.

(Slide) This is about what you saw yesuerday during your tour, the up-
stream face. It's sort of an intricate form, but it saved an awful lot
of concrete. In other words, if we had built the whole thing solid, we
wculdn't have had so much form work. I don't recall what the total
reduction in concrete was, but it was substantial.

(Slide) We have a substantial wildlife program in the upper half of the
area. This is just one shot which shows some tree tie downs. . During
the clearing operation, we cut the trees and tied them down with cables
and anchored them to the stumps so that they would serve as fish
attractors.

(Slide) This is the north shore boat harbor during the opening day of
Pueblo Dam and Reservoir. There were a lot of people who were about to
push the panic button when that time came because they thought visita- I
tion would be so tremendous that cars would be backed clear up to
Highway 50. But as you can see, that's the parking lot on opening day
at two o'clock in the afternoon. We didn't really test the capabilities
of this facility.

(Sli~) Here are a couple of fish.that weren't caught in Pueblo Res-
ervou. (Laughter) We had an enterprising photographer, and he has
been traveling around for three or four years urying to find a decent,

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