BOARD01683

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

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undertaken and thus cleared the way for the
project to be constructed. The ~rmy Engineers
will construct the project and will operate
the project, m~,ing irrigation r~leases at
the behest of the local conservancy district
which will work with the Bureau of Reclamation
on the reclamation features.

,The Army Engineers have been ready to go
for quite a little while and they,have done
all of the preliminary work that they deem
necessary to get this thing under way.

Just to give you an idea of what this
means to the state of Colorado, I have a few
figures that I thiru, are interesting. The
estimated cost of construction is approxi~
mately $22 million, with $13 million allocated
to flood control, $6~ million to irrigation,
and $2-1/3 million to fish and wildlife and
recreation. On that, Larry Sparks has beeri
worJ,ing with the Game, Fish and parks Depart-
mept to provide water for a fish pool at the
ppftom of this reservoir because that will .
have to be provided locally. The capacity of
the reservoir will be 114,000 acre-feet, of
which 51,000 acre-feet is flood control,
39,000 acre-feet for silt and irrigation, and
20,000 acre-feet basic for irrigation, with a
firm.fishery pool of 4,500 acre-feet.

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Now the benefits to this area and thus
to the state of Colorado, and incidentally to
New Mexico I thiru, , from this project can be
shown by this. The annual direct benefits
are: direct irrigation, $257,000 a year and
out of that this project can be paid for
readily; flood control, $540,000; fish and
recreation only $130,000, (I am going tq pom-
~ent on ~rat); area reQeye19P~ent $257,QOO.
Now whenthip. fish and recreation figure. .i-las
arrived at, it was arrived at on a most con-
servative basis and when one really looks at
it realistically it lo~,s like instead of
$130,000 the real benefits will be about $1
million a year. This is going to create a very