FLOOD08833

• County: Las Animas
• Community: Near Trinidad
• Stream Name: Purgatoire
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Flood Control Problem Purgatoire near Trinidad
• Date: 1/1/1944
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Project

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f'ElEUlible the lllUltipl111 p1U'poser$llel'Voil:' projects needed in the tel:'l:'itory.

(;) At the public f:l,()oQ. control hee.l'ing; Mal'oh 20. 1944 at Pueblo.
Colllrado t he suggestion was :made tha;l; the COl:'pS of Engineers. the Bureau
of Reel tlon. this State aglllnoy., and repl:'llIlonte.tiv$s of bOth munioipal
and e.g;l'i ultl:Ui'al1n'\;ereatllat 'rri:rdlilll.d. should OOcpel:'ati vdy (lom/ider the
p,,"o1;3._1I eM the1r be" 1I,,1ution.. end that further inv$stigations.h\'mld
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