BOARD01250

• Board Meeting Date: 12/9/1964
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

Platte Unit. That is, as you know. a differ-
ently financed but the same study. This study
that has been completed is a preliminary study
to the one financed with federal funds.

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On the St. vrain unit. we haven't actually
gotten under way there but have maintained
very close liaison with the Steering committee
of the st. Vrain-Boulder Creek groups. We
held meetings last month with them along with
the Steering Committee from the Cache la
poudre. The St. Vrain-Boulder Creek people
are very anxious to learn all they can about
procedures which were followed by the people
in the Cache la poudre Unit in order to guide
them in their efforts for a project down there
on the st. vrain.

Now on construction. progress has been
moving along quite well on the Fryingpan-
Arkansas Project. The contractor on the Ruedi
Dam is making good progress on his tunnels
for the outlet works. He has completed his
concrete batching plant and got that ready to
go in the spring and is making good progress
on his access roads, particularly the one over
the left abutment.

Also the field facilities construction on
the western slope at Meredith has been com-
pleted and work is progressing on the aerial
mapping throughout the western slope collection
system area. There is only one contract there
(and most of that is by contract, incidentally).
the aerial surveying. One contract is lagging
but the others are progressing quite well and
we will have that data in time for design data
of those features.

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We have completed the drilling program
on the Divide Tunnel and in the South Fork
areas for design data for those facilities.
There we had 18 prospective contractors in-
spect the Divide Tunnel and the South Fork
Tunnel sites on September 28 and 29. That
was done in advance of any actual designs or