BOARD00935

• Board Meeting Date: 9/5/1968
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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included fish and wildlife and recreation
in the proposed plan as a project purpose
and has incorporated the following as project
features:

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a. Seventeen excavated fish lakes
totaling 208 acres located in the flood plain
of Arkansas River between Pueblo and Las
Animas;

b. Low wetland areas totaling about
500 acres in the Arkansas River flood plain
between Pueblo and Las Animas for waterfowl
habitat;

c. Fencing of all lands to be acquired.
for construction of the Arkansas River
channelization project from Pueblo to Las
Animas including selected fish and wildlife
and recreation areas adjacent to the proposed
project. The estimated costs of these
features are as follows:

Seventeen fishing lakes, federal cost
$505,000, nonfederal $505,000*, total first
cost $1,010,000, annual O&M nonfederal
$10,500; fencing and additional lands,
federal cost $459,000, nonfedera1 $97,400,
total first cost $556,400, annual O&M non-
federal $3,050; wetlands, federal cost $90,400,
nonfederal $80,000, total first cost $170,400,
annual O&M nonfedera1 $5,090. Totals, federal
cost $1,054,400; nonfederal $682,400; total
first cost $1,736,800; annual O&M nonfedera1
$18,640. (*Includes $491,000 cash contribu-
tion toward construction.)

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On the Arkansas River below John Martin
Dam preauthorization planning, investigations
and studies for flood control and related
purposes are being continued in the Arkansas
River subbasin from John Martin Dam to Great
Bend, Kansas, in cooperation with local in-
terests, state, and other federal agencies.
In Colorado, consideration is being given to