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<br />PRCJTI:CTION PROGRAlJ OF CITY OF DENVER (CmITfD) <br /> <br /> <br />tributaries of Cherry Creel" --these improvements to be located pr incipally <br /> <br /> <br />along the 22 mile stretch and over the 218 square miles of area between <br /> <br /> <br />Castlewood Dam and Sullivan Barrier, and particularly on South Cherry <br /> <br /> <br />Creek (which enters just above and brings sediment into the basin above <br /> <br /> <br />Sullivan Barrier), and on Goldsmith Gulch, which enters Cherry Creek <br /> <br /> <br />below and is uncontrolled by the Sullivan Barrier. <br /> <br /> <br />(3) Cha; nel improvements (straighten, widen, and construct <br /> <br /> <br />embankments) along the channel of Cherry Creek belewr Sullivan Barrier <br /> <br />downstream to the corpora"ce limits of the City, to protect agricultural <br /> <br />lands along that stretch from d~~ges. <br /> <br />With respect to the contemplated flood control program out- <br /> <br /> <br />lined above, the consensus of lOCal opinion seems to be that, in its pre- <br /> <br /> <br />sent stage of completion, Denver is adequately protected against damage <br /> <br /> <br />from floods as great as heretofore experienced; and when completed, pro~ <br /> <br /> <br />tection will have been provided against floods several times greater in <br /> <br /> <br />magnitude, should any such flood ever occur. At the same time it is <br /> <br /> <br />realized by some, since storms and floods are conceivable of a magnitude <br /> <br /> <br />many times greater than any previously experienced, that protection of <br /> <br /> <br />Denver against such hypothetical possibilities may be justified by the <br /> <br /> <br />enormous damages such a flood might cause, if it should occur. <br /> <br />SOIL CONSERVATlm, SERVICE ACTIVITIES. <br /> <br />By the Flood Control Act approved Aug. 28, 1937, the <br /> <br /> <br />Department of Agriculture was authorized to make a preliminary examination <br /> <br /> <br />and prepare a survey report on flood co:tItrol of Cherry Creek and its <br /> <br /> <br />tributaries, Colorado. l1e are advised the said report, nmv in preparation, <br /> <br />-6- <br /> <br />