BOARD00887

• Board Meeting Date: 7/8/1966
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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sugar Loaf Dam and Roads continued clearing
and burning timber along the county road re-
location. Excavation for the spillway and
cutoff trench was initiated. As of June 30,
1966, the contractor has completed approxi-
mately 20 percent of the contract with 17 per-
cent of the contract time elapsed.

The contractor for construction of the
poncha-Midway section of tile Curecanti-Midway
230 kv. transmission line commenced operations
late in ~~rch 1966. Clearing for transmission
line right-of-way and access road construction
are under way. On May 3l, 1966, the contractor
had completed approximately 8.2 percent of the
contract with 12.6 percent of the contract time
elapsed.

Agreements with the cities of Colorado
Springs and Aurora for coordination of the
Fryingpan-Arkansas project and the Homestake
Project were completed on May 2, 1966, when the
contract was signed by the Regional Director
on behalf of the united states.

On the Trinidad Project, as of June 16,
1966, five ditch companies in the Trinidad
project area have executed contracts with the
purgatoire River Water Conservancy District
for repayment of their proportionate share of
the irrigation costs associated with the Trini-
dad Project. In addition to the five who have
completed their contracts, there are seven who
have orally agreed to sign the repayment con-
tract. The Conservancy District attorneys
hope to have all the remaining contracts signed
by the end of July.

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In the Upper Arkansas River Basin, meet-
ings were held with interested community leaders
to discuss future potential water reclamation
projects. Contracts were executed with the
Colorado State University and Fort Hays, Kansas,
State College for a reconnaissance-type survey
which will determine the kinds and amounts of
woody phreatophyte vegetation on the flood