BOARD01352

• Board Meeting Date: 2/1/1966
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. STAPLETON:

HR. SLIZESKI:

are hopeful that by the end of this coming
fiscal year there will be a flood control
plan worked out for the Arkansas Valley
which would take care of the disastrous floods
that took place there last summer.

That's all I have, Hr. Chairman."

"Thank you, Larry.

The next agenda item is the Corps of
Engineers, Omaha District report. ~tr.
Slizeski."

"Mr. Chairman, members of the Board,
ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of Colonel
st. Clair, our District Engineer, I wish to
present the following report, copies of which
are in the folders of the members of the Board.

On the Chatfield Dam Flood control Proj-
ect, feasibility report on the Chatfield
Project, as outlined at your public meeting
on November 19t1l, has been transmitted to our
higher authority. Currently structural de-
sign studies are in progress on the Chatfield
project in our office.

The scheduling of these studies is based
on letting a construction contract for con-
struction of Chatfield in the spring of 1967.

In our general investigations are~ flood
control and allied purposes, the survey inves-
tigations in the South Platte River Basin
for flood control and allied purposes have
been resumed following the interruption occa-
sioned by the floods of June, 1965. Current
investigations include studies in the Plum
Creek, Bear Creek, Sand and Toll Gate Creeks
and Bijou Creek Basins.

In the plum Creek basin we are currently
investigating four damsites for protection of
Castle Rock and Sedalia, for the major