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<br />TWO FOEKS DAM AND RESERVOIR <br />(Upper South Platte Unit) <br /> <br />The Two Forks Dam site is located about a mile downstream fran <br /> <br />the con1'luence of the North Fork and the South Platte River, some <br /> <br />25 airline miles upstream from Denver. <br /> <br />Total storage capacity of the Two Forks Reservoir site can be <br /> <br />as much as 1,200,000 acre-feet Which could amply provide for all <br /> <br />conservation and flood control requirements. Hydrologic studies are <br /> <br />well advanced in the detemination of specific requirements Which <br /> <br />will set the required total capacity. <br /> <br />Only a dam at the Two Forks <br /> <br />site can provide protection for the Denver water works at Kassler. <br /> <br />It would relieve the Chatfield site of nearly all need for the <br /> <br /> <br />storage of flood flows originating in the North and South Forks of <br /> <br />the river and could do it at a cheaper cost per unit of capacity. <br /> <br />The Two Forks and Chatfield Reservoirs must be coordinated to pro- <br /> <br />vide optimum multipurpose results. <br /> <br />The Two Forks Reservoir would, of course, also be operated <br />for flood control as an integral part of the multiple-purpose <br /> <br />developnent of the entire South Platte River :Basin, involving <br />coordinated operation of the Two Forks-Chatfield-Cherry Creek- <br /> <br />Narrows Reservoirs. <br /> <br />In addition to the main unit of Two Forks Dam and Reservoir, <br />it is pls.nned to construct the Turkshead Dam and Afterbay. Water <br /> <br />releases fran the Two Forks Reservoir would be routed through a <br /> <br />hydroelectric powerplant and diSCharged into the Turkshead Reservoir <br /> <br />Which would also serve as an af'terbay for the Two Forks powerplant <br /> <br />10 <br />