FLOOD01339

• County: Larimer
• Community: Loveland
• Stream Name: Big Thompson River
• Title: Application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a License to Re-construct, Operate, and Maintain the Loveland Project
• Date: 11/1/1977
• Prepared For: FERC
• Prepared By: Loveland
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Miscellaneous

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BEFORE THE FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION
APPLICATION FOR LICENSE

1.

City 01 Loveland, a statutory city under the laws 01 the State 01 Colorado, whose post ollice
address is:

P. O. Box 419
Loveland, Colorado 80537
hereby makes application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a license to
authorize reconstruction, operation, and maintenance 01 certain project works lully
described herein.

2.

A concise, general description 01 the project is as 101l0ws, and plans 01 the principal project
works are shown on Exhibit L, which is submitted herewith and made a part of this
Application:

On July 31 st and August 1 st, 1976, one 01 the worst disasters ever experienced in the State
01 Colorado occurred when torrential rainlalls in Roosevelt National Forest caused severe
flash flooding 01 the Big Thompson River and Canyon. Damage to lives and property were
immense. Included among these physical lacilities which were destroyed and/or damaged
were the dam, hydroelectric plant, pipeline and appurtenances which lormed the City 01
Loveland Municipal Power Plant. The power plant had been in continuous operation since
its construction in 1924.

Funded under the provisions 01 Public Law 93-288 which is administered by the Federal
Disaster Assistance Administration, the damaged portion of the project calls for the
replacement of the following facilities in Big Thompson Canyon, Colorado:

a.

A concrete diversion dam destroyed by the flood.
Approximately 1,700 lineal leet of 36 inch steel and concrete pipe destroyed by the
flood.
A 900 KW hydroelectric plant destroyed by the flood.

b.

c.

d.

Approximately 2200 lineal feet of 36-inch wood stave pipe.

The total project for which this application is submitted consists of the following elements:

a.

An ogee concrete gravity dam measuring 193 feet from the north face of the north
abutment to the south face of the south abutment.

b.

9,500 lineal feet of buried pipeline (penstock) consisting of 36.inch steel pipe
running easterly from the dam to the hydroelectric power plant which is located in
the City of Loveland's Viestanz-Smith Park, Approximately 6500 lineal feet of
pipeline was not damaged and will remain in place,