BOARD02195

• Board Meeting Date: 9/12/1964
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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I will continue. It is evident without
going into details that the elimination of
Riverside 4,000 acres, Empire 3,000 acres,
Bijou No.2, 1000 acres - 8,000 acres with
the 8 miles of dikes, 40 miles of canals and
a minimum pool of 2,000 acres cannot fail to I
cut down on evaporation losses, to this Jack-
son also can be added if a complete cutoff is
made. This they admit to the extent of 11,000
acre-feet in some of the tabulations; to
13,000 acre-feet in ,another without the incor-
poration of Jackson Lake. This water must be
worth something. At $50 per acre-foot which
was testified to at the Lower South platte
Conservancy District hearing, it would amount
to $550,000 annually, in 50 years $27,500,000.

In terms of land, the Narrows requires,
the taking of over 9,000 acres for reservoir
and in terms of irrigated farmland, irrigated
and sub-irrigated meadows as compared to 6,395
acres for Weld County. This is taken from
the Justin Haynes report. In round numbers
almost 3,000 acres less of productive lands.
In terms of parcels, 428 acres for Narrows,
124 for Weld County. In terms of homes, 172
for Narrows, 38 for Weld County. In terms
of lost annual production, at least $2 million
more for Narrows than for Weld County. In
fifty years, $100 million.

Let us now examine the relative efficien-
cies of the reservoirs. Weld County is to
have a complete cutoff because the Bureau
feels a safe dam cannot be built without a
complete cutoff. The same water, the same
type of material, however, at Narrows will
not require a cutoff on the right abutment
since it is stacked a little differently and
is more desirable like a pretty girl or as is
the case here, the first love of the Bureau.
In any event the seepage is estimated at over
40 cubic feet per second. This is being waived
off as being insignificant. That water will
have to be passed anyway. As pointed out be-
fore, the only time water can be passed is

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