BOARD01663

• Board Meeting Date: 8/6/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

engineering members who are appointed by
the board itself.

The board has almost unlimited author-
ity in the field of flood control in the
metropolitan area. We think it will pro-
vide a very valuable assistance in flood
control planning and should be able to take
a considerable burden off this Board as
far as the metropolitan area is concerned.

I

The second meeting of the board will
be held next week. I attended the organ-
izational meeting and either I or a
member of the staff will be present at all
of the meetings of the district. We have
offered the assistance of this Board. We
even offered to let them acquire the
channel for the Chatfield Dam, the Chat-
field Project, if they so desired.

We hope to meet with that district in
the near future so that the members of our
staff and the members of the staff from
the Corps of Engineers of the Omaha Dis-
trict can explain to the board what is
taking place in the flood control field
in the metropolitan area. Actually there
is a considerable amount of activity as
you know. At the present time, either
authorized or in the planning stage by
the Corps of Engineers there is in excess
of $200 million worth of projects in the
Denver metropolitan area. A few of them
have been authorized, the Chatfield and
the Mount Carbon. Some of these projects
are a revival of previous authorizations,
either under the 1940 or 1950 Flood Con-
trol Acts. Others are fairly new such
as the plans on Sand Creek. In any event, I~'..
there isa tremendous amount of activity
on the part of the Corps of Engineers in
the metropolitan area.

There are many areas, however, which