BOARD01033

• Board Meeting Date: 11/13/1963
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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the North Sterling Reservoir. This addition
would increase the amount of water produced by
the Narrows Unit by 32,000 acre-feet. It pumps
only winter water, actually in about three
months.

The other pump was a proposal to pump into
the Riverside Ditch giving the Riverside people
service from the Narrows Reservoir.

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As requested by your Director, we drilled
four holes on the Weld county axis, that is, the
damsite of that axis, and five holes on an alter-
nate axis a mile and a quarter downstream which
has been proposed by Cecil Osborne. These holes
showed a much deeper and wider buried channel
than we had expected and we now consider the
seepage beneath the Weld County Dam would be
quite serious. In the light of this new informa-
tion we have started cost estimates, a re-evalua-
tion of the cost estimates of Weld County Dam.

We are going ahead with the economic and
hydrologic studies for the Narrows Unit. Agri-
cultural field data is being accumulated in the
service area of the North Sterling Ditch.

On the Cache la poudre Unit, we started
feasibility studies as reported last time. We
are now starting the core drilling of the
Idylwilde Dam site. We have completed detailed
topography of the dam site and are making pre-
liminary location of the road around the Idyl-
wilde Reservoir site.

On the Trinidad Project we are working on
the special report for the irrigation phase.
The operating principles have been presented
to the Arkansas Valley Ditch Association, the
Compact Commission and other interested organ-
izations.

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The study of the Upper South platte Unit
was requested by your Board. This study is of
an area from the confluence of the Cache la
poudre River upstream; that is, in the South
Platte Basin above Kersey. Work has begun on