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<br />I <br /> <br />At Narrows the length is cut down so that <br />much of the routing is through the surcharge <br />area. In addition, they state no major struc- <br />tures are involved. Unless the criteria (and <br />you need to put a decimal point ahead of the <br />3 feet) of .3 feet per hundred feet of distance <br />can be exceeded you cannot, in the 70,000 feet <br />lineal distance between wildcat Creek and <br />Narrows damsite, climb from an elevation of 4225 <br />to 4448 or 223 feet without going further east <br />to start, which means a new wildcat bridge. In <br />addition to this, there are Chris Lee, Aker, <br />Lamborn, Schaefer and Cottonwood draws, any <br />one of which, to my personal knowledge, have <br />run far more water than the two extras men- <br />tioned for the Weld County dam, for which they <br />estimate almost an additional $2 million. The <br />reverse is actually true. Also there is no <br />accounting for right-of-way costs. No mention <br />is made of buying a golf course for the Nar- <br />rows. <br /> <br />In the itemization of utilities to be <br />removed at Narrows no mention is made of gas <br />lines which are across the basin. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />The big item and the one which the Bureau <br />thinks is the killing factor for Weld County <br />site is the cost of the cutoff wall. The method <br />they have proposed is the most costly and is <br />the most ancient of all methods. Modern engi- <br />neering practices are making these cutoff walls <br />at a fraction of their former costs. I stand <br />personally and I state that I can, with equip- <br />ment available here in Fort Morgan, put the <br />cutoff wall in place for not to exceed $5.00 <br />per square foot, which will consist of a two <br />foot, six inch thick concrete wall extended <br />into the shale. I will repeat, I stand ready <br />to prove at my own personal expense, the com- <br />pleteness of the cutoff on a test section. And <br />I mean that, gentlemen. The method used would <br />be similar to the method used by the Italians <br />on Allegheny Dam for the Corps of Engineers <br />near Warren, Pennsylvania, as described in <br />Pages 30-33, August 27, 1964 issue of the Engi- <br />neering News Record, except that the circulation <br />