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<br />DIE.....n"IENT..1. <br /> <br />CC....IE..CNCIEN_ONI.V <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT <br /> <br />COLORADO <br /> <br />5 U..lIlECT...__.___............................... <br /> <br />- J - <br /> <br />These so-called improvements would be enlarging, straightening and <br />strengthening thP. banks of this stream so that it might carry increased <br />flows for short distances between power plant outlets and intakes. <br /> <br />2. Operation of power plants between Grant am South Platte, 8S listed <br />belCJ1'l': <br /> <br />Grant <br />Singleton <br />Shawnee - _ _ _ <br />Insmont <br />Croasons <br />Resort Creek <br /> <br />1/2 mile below Gra.>'lt <br />1-1/2 miles above Shawnee <br />1-1/2 miles below Shawnee <br />Near Insmont <br />Near Crossons <br />At Resort Creek <br /> <br />Each power plant would discharge into thp. North Fork of the South <br />Platte, the tlow being picked up a ~hort distance below the discharge <br />point to enter a penstock above the next power plant. Losses to fish- <br />eries values lIOuld be considerable. <br /> <br />3. Construction of Shawnee reservoir one and a half miles below Shawnee, <br />wi th storage capacity of .50,000 acre feet. <br /> <br />Provided fluctuation is not too severe, this reservoir would partiAlly <br />replace the losses of I and 2 above. <br /> <br />4. COl18truction of Two Forks reservoir, one and a half miles below the <br />village of South Platte, wiUl 422,000 acre feet storage capacity and <br />201,000 acre feet possible flood contI't)1 storage. If filled, this res- <br />ervoir would cover the village of Deckers. <br /> <br />. <br />Severe fluctuation -would greatly reduce fisheries values; hOwevB', coo- <br />siderable use and berefit might develop despite such fluctuations. <br /> <br />5. Construction of Empire reservoir, on Clear Creek belOll' Fmpire, as an ex- <br />change storage reservoir with 17,000 acre feet capacity. <br /> <br />This reservoir would develop SOOB fisheries values and. would act liS a <br />settling basin for ma.terials dumped into the tributa1")' streams. <br /> <br />6. Chatfield reservoir, located on the South Platte river above Littleton, <br />am Cherry Creek reservoir, located on Cherry Creek above Denver, would <br />not be a part of this project but 1'lOuld probably be coordinated with it. <br /> <br />Each of these reservoirs, to be constructed by the Corps of Engineers, <br />would offer fair fisheries values, probably in thE> wana water field. <br /> <br />'l.<;'Q~ <br />