BOARD02386

• Board Meeting Date: 3/8/1972
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. VELEHRADSKY:

MR. SPARKS:

as the first recommendation of
Engineers. All those in favor
saying, 'aye,' opposed, 'no.'
carries unanimously.

the Corps of
signify by
The motion

Are you going to carry on with the second
agenda item, Mr. Velehradsky? We are moving
on wi th the Cherry Creek flood control."

"Yes. II

"Let me preface that again Mr. Chairman,
if I may. 'l'he Cherry Creek project was author-
ized back in the thirties. As part of the
authorized project, Castlewood dam which is on
Cherry Creek in Douglas County, some miles above
the existing Cherry Creek reservoir, was author-
ized. However, there did not appear to be
sufficient interest or sufficient reason at
that time to construct the Castlewood dam. At
Castlewood there was an old dam which was
washed away in some of the floods of many years
ago.

In any event, Cherry Creek reservoir was
constructed and it has served its purpose quite
well. However, as a part of the Cherry Creek
project a spillway was constructed which would
permit discharges of an excess of the capacity
of the Cherry Creek reservoir into Toll Gate
Creek, which is a tributary of Sand Creek. Now,
since the thirties there has been a tremendous
development in the Sand Creek-Toll Gate Creek
areas, particularly the City of Aurora. So
there is now considerable development right up
to the banks of Sand and Toll Gate Creeks. In
the thirties there was practically nothing
there but farmland and very, very few residences.
'l'he change of conditions has made it imperative
that the Corps take another look at the Cherry
Creek project with the purpose of now avoiding
any overflow in Toll Gate Creek which would be
disastrous to the City of Aurora and everything
downstream from there.

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