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<br />The only thing lacking in the develop- <br />ment of the work plan would be, of course, <br />the approval of the irrigation shareholders <br />for the additional expense for the rebuilding <br />of the dam and also geologic work on the old <br />dam site. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />We estimate, given all these approvals, <br />we can develop the work plan within two or <br />three months time. <br /> <br />On plum Creek, above Denver, preliminary <br />investigations continued for this watershed <br />comprising 222,000 acres in Douglas, El Paso <br />and Teller Counties. As a lot of you );;no\'l, <br />this was the principal contributing watershed <br />to the flood of Denver in 1965. plum Creek <br />is, of course, tributary to the Chatfield Dam <br />which has ~een referred to as a Corps of Engi- <br />neers dam above Denver. <br /> <br />The sponsors are negotiating for ease- <br />ments and rights-of-way on nine possible <br />floodwater-retarding structures. <br /> <br />The Forest Service will provide runoff <br />data from National Forest lands to determine <br />final floodwater storage needs and which <br />structures will provide the highest degree of <br />flood protection. <br /> <br />Final planning will be coordinated with <br />the Forest Service and the Corps of Engineers <br />studies on the South Platte River Basin. <br /> <br />preliminary investigations on the Black <br />Squirrel Watershed, which runs into a tribu- <br />tary of the Arkansas just east of Colorado I <br />Springs, continue on this 249,900 acre water- <br />shed in El Paso county. We have a proposal <br />for, we believe, about six or seven flood- <br />water-retarding reservoirs that would protect <br />the irrigated lands, pump-irrigated that is, <br />of the flood plain area. TO determine this, <br />we will put the hydrology data into our com- <br />puter program and we are going to also put our <br />