BOARD02069

• Board Meeting Date: 11/13/1968
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

to Morrow Point Switchyard: and installation
of equipment at the Curecanti Substation for
energizing the Curecanti-Midway transmission
line at 230 kilovolts.

The high voltage transmission lines of I
the Bureau of Reclamation and the Public
Service Company of Colorado were inter con- ,
nected at the Rifle substation on October
15, 1968. The Rifle substation consists of
several large 230-kv. circuit breakers that
permit the Bureau of Reclamation's Hayden-
Curecanti line and the Public Service Com-
pany's line from Leadville to Cameo to be
operated as if they were parts of a single
system. This inter tie was made on a shared~
expense basis between the Company and the
Bureau.

Construction work has been finished on
the access roads for the Curecanti-Rifle
transmission line. The contractor at Midway
substation has completed over 90 percent of
his work and expects to fully complete the
Bureau portion of the substation before the
year's end. An intertie with the Public
Service Company of Colorado will also be
JIIade at Midway.

On our Paonia project, bids were opened
November 7th for the rehabilitation of three
reaches of Colorado Highway No. 133 along
Paonia Reservoir. The rehabilitation in-
cludes realining approximately one-half mile
of road and providing a wide ditch burn
section on the upper stream side of the road
for catching the fall of rocks which have
been quite dangerous in the past: construc-
tion of a concrete retaining wall between I
the highway and the spillway at the dam, and
resloping areas along the right side of the
spillway: unwatering the spillway stilling
basin and general cleanup work. The Colorado
Department of Highways will place bituminous
surfacing on the road after the Bureau has