BOARD02497

• Board Meeting Date: 7/14/1971
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. STAPLETON:

MR. BARTLETT:

MR. SPARKS:

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. MAHONEY:

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MR. SPARKS:

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no problem. Once you get below Denver however.
we have a chronic problem which exists today.
The Corps is taking a look at this channel.
The greatest damage today actually occurs in
the area below Denver. We see no problem with
the Denver channel as such as long as it is
kept reasonably clear."

"Are there any other questions? Yes sir."

"I am Jim Bartlett. When this water is
moved efficiently down through Denver, does that
creabeany greater danger to people downstream
from Denver? Is there a larger amount of water
moving past?"

"No. there will not be a larger amount of
water. There will be much less water moving
because of the darn. One problem wi,th this
project is to try to determine the beneficiaries.
Actually this darn will be a benefit even to the
State of Nebraska. The Governor of Nebraska
wrote our governor recently and said, 'I hope
you can get moving in Colorado, we are getting
flooded down here.' There were serious floods
this year in Nebraska originating at higher
elevations. On certain stretches of the river
with a uniform grade where there is now a sand
bar it will move a little faster. But by and
large the change in the flow of the river will
be imperceptible."

"Back there in the back, please."

"Bob Mahoney, again. After the darn is built.
the Chatfield Darn, who is going to be in charge
of taking care of the darn? We start immediately
speaking of clean water corning out of the dam
and dirty water going into the dam, so how long
do you project before the dam has to start being
dredged and whose responsibility is that and who
is going to pay for it?"

"There is a hundred-year silt retention pool
built into the dam. Even when that sediment