BOARD01698

• Board Meeting Date: 12/14/1966
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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The preliminary draft of the Fish and
Wildlife report was received for review. A
letter-type report has been received from the
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. So we are
processing that work to finalization.

On the Fryingpan-Arkansas project, the
contractor for Ruedi Dam has completed almost
55 percent of the work in some 66 percent of
the contract time. zone material placements
were continued on the dam and spillway. Con-
crete placements on the outlet works continued.
Drilling and grouting operations were continued.
Drilling for an installation of rock bolts in
the area of the outlet portal continued. Em-
bankment operations were slowed considerably
toward the end of October due to inclement
weather and are presently at a virtual stand-
still.

The tunnel contractors on the Divide, South
Fork and Chapman Tunnels, are making good
progress. The Divide Tunnel, which is 5.3 miles
in length, is now 38 percent complete; the south
Fork Tunnel, which is a tunnel of a little over
3 miles in length, is SO percent complete; and
the Chapman Tunnel, a tunnel of 2-3/4 miles in
length, stands at 76 percent of completion.
Excavation of the tunnels has progressed as
follows: Divide, 9,147 feet;South Fork, 7,190
feet; Chapman, 10,261 feet. Concrete placements
were made for the Chapman Diversion Dam, wing-
walls, sluiceways, and downstream retaining
walls. Construction continued on the Divide
access road and clearing operations have been
advanced to the inlet portal of the Divide
Tunnel.

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The contractor for the Sugar Loaf Dam and
roads has completed 44 percent of the contract
with less than 30 percent of the contract time
elapsed. Excavation and zone placement opera-
tions were continued. Embankment operations
were slowed somewhat by inclement weather toward
the end of October and are now at a virtual
standstill. Concrete placements continued and