BOARD01663

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

Spring Gulch embankment. It also includes
the mass excavation for the outlet works.
Plans for the outlet works are about 75
percent complete. The current schedule
calls for advertising in November 1970 with
contract letting in January of 1971. The
spillway design memorandum is being re-
viewed by our Missouri River Division
office. The spillway contract is scheduled
to be advertised in November of 1971 and to
be awarded in January of 1972. Relocation
of Colorado Highway 75 is nearing comple-
tion. Bridges and culverts were completed
last year, and the surfacing between them
should be completed this year. Negotia-
tion of a relocation contract between the
government and the Denver Water Board is
nearing completion.

Right-of-way acquisitions for the
South Platte channel improvement project
have been turned Over to the Water Conser-
vation Board staff. Minor modifications
in alignment are being made to facilitate
the acquisition for the necessary rights-
of-way. Depending on the availability of
funds and the status of rights-of-way
acquisitions, construction is scheduled
to begin in fiscal year 1971.

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On Bear Creek, the Mount Carbon proj-
ect was authorized by the FloOd Control
Act of 1968 as the Bear Creek Dam and
Reservoir. The Bear Creek reservoir would
control runoff from 236 square miles of
the Bear Creek basin and would provide 2,400
acre-feet of storage for sediment and
26,000 acre-feet of storage for flood co~-
trol. The dam would consist of a rolled-
earth structure, 4,100 feet long and 143 I'
feet high. Use of the sediment pool for
recreation would provide a lake having
about 130 surface acres. Total cost of
Bear Creek Dam and Re'servoir. based on
1966 price levels, is $32,617,000. Of