BOARD02546

• Board Meeting Date: 1/9/1963
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Ben, you asked if there was any immediate
plan for a dedication at this structure and
that you thought it might be appropriate for
your Board to combine that with a meeting and
probably visit this project. I'd like to
extend to your Board an official invitation to
come and visit the project. In reviewing
around I could find no plans for immediate
dedication. The first thought that I could
locate any place was possibly some kind of
celebration at the time the first power went
on the line from the storage Project. That
would be late in September. I might suggest
that an appropriate time to visit the project
would be late spring or early summer. After
the roadway is completed across the da~ access
would be much better to the project. I think
it would be a more favorable time also from
the climate situation.

Moving on to the Curecanti project, the
prime contractor at Blue Mesa Dam, money-wise,
is more than 25 percent complete at the present
time. The diversion tunnel has been excavated.
Excavation is going ahead on the inclined
spillway tunnel. Concrete lining is being
placed in the diversion tunnel and the con-
tractor plans to divert the Gunnison River
through the tunnel some time this spring.

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On November 29th traffic was routed over
the new Gunnison River and Lake Fork bridges.
Also substantial progress has been made on
the second contract on the relocation of the
highway, a five mile segment. The third and
final segment is scheduled to be started in
the spring of 1963 which will cover the re-
maining five miles as well as the initial
section of Highway l49 to Lake city.

Invitations for bids on Morrow Point Dam,
the second unit of the Curecanti, are now
scheduled to be let in February. As you know,
Morrow Point will be a thin-arch concrete
structure 465 feet high and 720 feet long.
It will contain about 350,.000 cubic yards of