BOARD01683

• Board Meeting Date: 5/12/1967
• Description: Agenda, Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

economic data into the computer program and
see if this will beat our old office methods
of computing these.

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We recently started a new preliminary
investigation of a watershed up above Jules-
burg, the Sedgwick-Sand Draws Watershed,
which compric9s about 65,000 acres in two
states of which about 9,000 acres are in
Cheyenne county and 28,000 acres in Deuel
county, Nebraska, and 28,200 acres in Sedg-
wick County, Colorado. Most of the floodwater
and sediment damages and the possible struc-
tural sites are in Colorado and will be planned
by the Colorado Watershed planning Staff.
Engineering assistance for surveying damsites
and floodplain cross sections is being pro-
vided by the Colorado Water Conservation
Board. We feel that we have a feasible proj~
ect there even though we are just in the
preliminary phases.

We have several proposals of preliminary
investigations to start in the near future.
The principal one would be the cucharas Creek
Watershed near Walsenburg which we will start
in June.

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As to operations, those are the worle
plans that have received congressional approval
and are then subject to two things - the
people having all of their obligations stacked
up and ready to go and our receiving the con-
struction funds for the government portion of
the project. We have 14 of these projects
approved for construction; on 10 of them the
construction is completed; we have three under
construction which we are going to report on
today; and one watershed project approved
back in 1962 that is still not under construc-
tion because of the problem of easements. This
is the Vineland Project just east of Pueblo
on the south side of the river.

Under our present operations, the pine
River Watershed, comprising 58,000 acres in