BOARD02195

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

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MR. STAPLETON:

MR. EPPERSON:

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. WRIGHT:

"Thank you, Mr. Osborne. I'd like to
inquire of Mr. Wright and Mr. Epperson, there
are about seven minutes of the hour and a
quarter you requested, if that will be suffi-
cient time?"

"That will be plenty of tine."

I

"It will? All right, Mr. Wright then."

"Thank you. My name is Kenneth wright,
an engineer in Denver, and in the past I
have been providing liaison services in Denver
for the Bijou and Riverside Irrigation Systems.

In the fall of 1963 the estimated differ-
ence in costs between the Narrows site and the
weld County site was thought to be about $7
million. with this in mind, the irrigation
people requested independent studies of right--
of-way costs and an independent valuation of
the two dam sites. Furthermore, they questioned
other comparative costs, such as for railroad
relocations and riprap needs. In regard to
the opinions expressed concerning excessive
leakage expected under the Weld County Dam,
they believed that tests should be run to
pinpoint the problem more accurately.

The Woodward-Clyde-Sherard report of March
30, 1964, concluded that seepage under the
Narrows site would be more than at the upper
site. This included a blanket at Narrows while
one was not ~onsidered at the Weld County site
in the Woodward-Clyde-Sherard studies. Fur--
thermore, the report stated that the Weld County
site was the superior site from the engineering
and geologic viewpoints.

Justin Haynes, in their report on land I
acquisition, concluded that the land acquisi-
tion costs would be on the order of $2 million
less at the Weld County site. This difference,
though substantial, was based on the upper site
studied by Justin Haynes, being over a mile
farther upstream than the Weld County site