BOARD02143

• Board Meeting Date: 3/8/1967
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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site. Bids for modification work and in-
stallation of Government-furnished steel
liner panels will be taken shortly after the
stilling basin is dewatered. The repair work
will be scheduled for completion before the
1968 spring flood season.

On the silt project, one of the partici-
pating projects, the construction work is
now approximately 97 percent complete on the
total project. We are storing water in the
Rifle Gap Reservoir and we anticipate that
this summer we will have a 50 to 70 percent
water supply for the project and this year
will be a general seasoning and testing year
for the project. The relocated Colorado
state Highway No. 325 was opened to public
traffic on January 27. This road will be
surfaced during the coming spring.

We have a small repair work going on
our Smith Fork project which consists of some
revisions to a diversion dam which did not
work satisfactorily simply because of the
undue amount of flood load carried by the
Smith Fork stream. This work will be com-
pleted prior to the start of the irrigation
season.

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There is no change in the status of the
Bostwick Park project. This work consists
of construction of the Silver Jack Dam. This
dam is located at almost 10,000 feet eleva-
tion and work was discontinued last fall.
It will be initiated again with the advent
of suitable weather. Last fall the damsite
area was cleared and stripping operations
were nearly completed before the heavy snow-
storms made further work impractical. We I'
propose to take bids early in 1968 for con-
struction of about 12 miles of new laterals
to service the project area.

Repairs to the lining of the Gunnison
Tunnel on the Uncompahgre project are pro-
gressing according to schedule. This concrete