BOARD02386

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

solution, and one that would have the least
social impact on the people in the Denver area,
would be construction of the authorized Castle-
wood dam. This dam would also provide inciden-
tal flood control benefits for the ~each be-
tween Franktown and Cherry Creek d~. It would
reduce flooding in this reach. ConSFruction
of this dam would also provide opportunities
for recreation development in the area. Based
on that, we developed a plan for flood control
and for fish and wildlife recreatiop.

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The interim report on Sand and Toll Gate
Creek also is treating the problems along
lower Cherry Creek. In evaluating the problems
at the Cherry Creek reservoir we found that
the channel downstream from Cherry Creek can-
not evacuate that reservoir after a flood with-
in a reasonable amount of time because of the
deteriorated condition of the flood walls
along Cherry Creek and because of the unst~le
channel banks inunediately below the d,am. The
interim report on Sand and Toll Gate therefore
treats the problem as two separate systems -
the Cherry Creek system, which consists pf the
construction of the authorized Castlewood dam
with the inclusion of recreation, raising of
the spillway crest on Cherry Creek to preclude
discharges into Toll Gate Creek and the sta-
bilization of the Cherry Creek channel down-
stream from Cherry Creek to permit evacuation
of Cherry Creek reservoir if the need arises,
and to provide control of the runoff originating
downstream from Cherry Creek dam. That is the
recommendation on Cherry Creek. We also cover
Sand Creek in here, but I don't want to discuss
this before we go into that.

The total cost of the plan which includes
these three elements, is 36 million dollars.
That is listed on page 39. These are January
1972 prices.

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Pertinent data for the projects or on the

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