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<br />jams that have developed, as well as completion of the Crystal Dam <br />powerplant. The work we are doing on the flood area below the town <br />of Gunnison includes the purchasing of certain right-of-ways that <br />are in the river bottom, buying some flood easements, and working with <br />the Corps of Engineers on the clearing and snagging program in the I <br />river channel. The channel there is quite flat and meandering and <br />with many separate channels with trees and brush interspersed among <br />them. <br /> <br />At Morrow Point, the dam and powerplant have been completed. We do <br />have some minor work left on it due to bituminous paving of the road <br />to the dam and to the powerplant, and the Visitors' Center at Cimarron. <br /> <br />Our next dam is Crystal dam. (Slide) This is an artist's conception of <br />Crystal dam which is now being designed in the engineering and research <br />center in Denver. We did have some previous plans for Crystal to be <br />an earth-fill dam. We opened the bids for it. The bids were exces- <br />sively high, primarily because of the narrow canyon and the work areas <br />down in the canyon and the shortage of earth-fill materials in that <br />area. As a result of environmental and re-evaluation studies, we <br />decided it would be much better to construct a narrow, thin-arch <br />concrete dam. <br /> <br />This dam is being constructed in two phases. The first phase that we <br />are working on right now is the bypass tunnel around the dam. That <br />will be for bypassing the river during construction of the dam and <br />powerplant. That is about 35 percent completed and will be finished <br />next spring. We hope to have the specifications out next spring on <br />the dam itself and award the contract. <br /> <br />Crystal dam, when filled, will have a height of about 351 feet above <br />bedrock. That will be about 235 feet above the existing streambed. <br />The crest length will be about 700 feet. The top of the dam will be <br />only 10 feet thick and the base of the dam will be only 29 feet thick <br />at the bottom. The reservoi.r formed by Crystal dam will impound about <br />27,000 acre-feet and the powerplant will have a capacity of around <br />28,000 k.w. <br /> <br />(Slide) This is a rough schedule of the work we are doing and what we I <br />have left to do on the eurecanti Unit. You will note that we have <br />about $5,000,000 for this fiscal year which will be used to complete <br />the diversion tunnel and to initiate work on the dam and powerp1ant <br />itself. <br /> <br />-3- <br />