FLOOD03474

• County: Adams
• County: Arapahoe
• County: Douglas
• Community: Denver Metroploitan Area
• Stream Name: South Platte River, Chatfield Dam to Baseline Road
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Major Drainageway Planning
• Date: 8/1/1984
• Prepared For: Denver Metropolitan Area
• Prepared By: Wright Water Engineers, Inc.
• Contract/PO #: &&
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

Jack Reservoir in Colorado; Bottle Hol.
low, Starvation, and the enlarged Straw.
berry Reservoirs in Utah; and Meeks
Cabin Reservoir in Wyoming.

Two national fish hatcheries, developed
with Colorado River Storage Project
funds, are performing important roles
in the joint State. Federal approach to
meeting fish. stocking requirements:

1, Jones Hole National Fish Hatchery is
located in a deep canyon on Jones
Hole Creek near Dinosaur National
Monument In northeastern Utah.
This year's production, one million
cutthroat, brown. and rainbow trout,
IS about 50 percent of capacity. Most
of the fish are used to stock Flaming
Gorge, Fontenelle. and Steinaker
Reservoirs. and the Green River be.
low Flaming Gorge and Fontenelle
Dams.

2. Hotchkiss National Fish Hatchery is
located on the North Fork of the Gun.
nison near Hotchkiss, Colo. Its out.
put of 2,750,178 rainbow trout went
principally for stocking requirements
at Blue Mesa, Crawford. lemon. and
Silver Jack Reservoirs in Colorado,
Navajo Reservoir in Colorado and
New Mexico. and lake Powell in Ari.
zona and Utah.

One National Wildlife Refuge and three
waterfowl areas under Slate administra.
tion are being developed in connection

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with the Colorado River Storage Project:

1. Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge
lies along the Green River below
fontenelle Dam. Wyoming. Adminis.
tration by U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service of acquired and public lands
for wildlife management purposes
began in 1966. The land use plan
for this area reqUIres purchase of
approximately 11,900 additional
acres of land to be used for water.
fowl management purposes in con.
junction With adjoining publicly
owned land. land purchase negotia.
tions continued during the year.

2. Browns Park Waterfowl Management
Area, under administration of the
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. IS
located below Flaming Gorge Reser.
voir on the Green River near the Utah.
Colorado State line. Management
area headquarters have been com.
pleted. and 270 acres of impounded
water and related waterfowl food
plots have been developed at two
major sites. A canal was constructed
during 1973 to provide water for a
third site to develop an additional
120 acres of pond. marsh habitat for
waterfowl. together with an expansion
of the acreage of wildlife food plots.
The overall management area is al.
ready attracting appreCiable numbers
of resident and migratory game bird
populations and is increasing in pub.

lic popularity, both as a fishing and
as a hunting site.

3. Miller Mesa Waterfowl Area is 10'
cated on the west shore of the Navajo
ReserVOir just south of the Colorado.
New MeXICO State hne. A small reser.
voir and two terrace ponds have been
completed and are full. About 170
acres of agricultural land have been
planted for Wildlife management pur.
poses to' barley. oats. wheat. and al.
falfa. The area has not yet been
opened to hunting. Waterfowl use
patterns indicate that birds from
other agricultural and resting areas
In the San Juan Valley are using the
Miller Mesa site With increasing fre.
quency.

4. Desert Lake Waterfowl Management
Area comprises 2,480 acres of ac.
quired and public domain land 10.
cated in eastern Utah near Hunting.
ton North Reservoir. Administered by
the Utah Division of Wildlife Re.
sources since January 1968. the
area's contribution to waterfowl reo
sources management was significant.
Iy increased by rehabilitation of the
historic Desert Lake Dike and com.
p:etion of five additional diked areas
below the existing impoundment.
These structures are all filled and
the lakes are used by resident and
game bird populations and migra.
tory waterfowl. Effectiveness of the