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<br />. <br /> <br />Kiowa Creek project is one of " the original. pilot Vli.tershed projects <br />constructed by the Soi~ Conservation Service in the United States. <br />The project consists of 65 f~oodwater retention structute$~ocated <br />within the 118 square mile drainage area. Two other watershed projects <br />have been constructed in the uppe"r portioDSof theChernr Creek basin. <br />The West"Chernr. Creek project consists of ~6 f~oodwater retention <br />structures ina.watershed area of 49 squaremi~es.,~d the Franktown- <br />Parker project consists of 25 f~Oodwater retentiOn structures in a <br />watershed area of 276 square mi~es. <br /> <br />c. BureauofRec~lIIII&tion. The BureauofReo~8IIIation has. con- <br />structed no imprOvements in the portions of the South P~atteRiver basin <br />affected by the June ~965 f~oods. The Bureau ofRec~amation's Co~orado- <br />Big Thompson transmsuntain diversion projeot imports water ftam the' <br />Co~orado River basin on the western s~ope of the RockY MOuntains to <br />the Big Thompson River basin, a tricbutary of the South Platte River <br />basin. The project provi.des 'water for irrigation tl.Dd municipal. use. <br /> <br />d. EIut~ewood DlIIII. Eng~ewoodDliIIl was constructed asa WPA project <br />during the ~930'S. It is ~ocated on Litt~eDry Creek approxtmately 9 <br />channel miles upstream tram Englewood.. Colorado. The proj ect serves <br />as a f~ood detention dam tor control of about 11 square~i~es of the <br />27 square mile drainage area of the Little Dry Creek basin. Storage <br />aapac.ity isapproxtmately 1,485 acre-feet at spillway crest." The <br />projectsutfersfrominadequate maint:ene.nce because of disputed <br />ownership of project lands. <br /> <br />15. NON-FEDERAL IMPROVEMENTS. <br /> <br />a. South Plat:te River at Denver. In 1921, the city of Denver <br />colltltructedchannel improvements on about 11 ,"5 mile,s of .the South <br />P~atte River at Denver. 'Fhe discharge capacity of,this improved reach <br />of channel rangestran approximately 9.500 cubic feet l'8rsecond <br />to 29.000 cubic feet per seaQnd. The perched condition of the channel <br />limits the effective capacity of the channel to 9,500 cubic feet per <br />second. <br /> <br />b. Che.rry Oreekat Denver; Approximately 7.7,miles"otimproved <br />channel on Cherry Creek at Denver were constructed in the 1920's by <br />the city of Denver. . The, original. design capacity, was, 10,000 cubic <br />feet, per second; The present effective capacity is; approximately <br />4,700 cubic feet per second., However,ooncrete flood. walls which are <br />part' ,of the channel improvement have been undermined by erosion in <br />many ~ocations; fQr this' reason, high discharges could cause collapse' <br />of the flood walls. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />9 <br />