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<br />.. .OI}107~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />TWO FORKS Dam will be a truly multiple-purpose facility. It will <br />store water for municipal and industrial use in the Denver metropolitan <br />area. Of particular importance, in view of the June 1965 flood on the <br />South Platte through the Denver area. TWO FORl<S Dam would provide <br />control of floods originating over most of the South Platte drainage <br />upstream from Denver. as an essential team-mate of Chatfield Reservoir. <br /> <br />WHERE WOULD TWO FORl<S DAM BE LOCATED? <br />The location of TWO FORKS 0aIII is tied down. It would be built on <br />the South Platte River one mile below the junction of the North Fork <br />with the South Platte River. It is about five miles upstream from the <br />Denver Water Intake Works above Waterton. <br /> <br />IS THE SITE FOR TWO FORl<S DAM A GOOD SITE? <br /> <br /> <br />The site for TWO FORl<S Dam is excellent. The river flows in a <br /> <br /> <br />deep. V-shaped canyon at the site selected. Core drilling of the <br /> <br /> <br />foundation rock has been completed. Two exploratory tunnels are now <br /> <br /> <br />being excavated into the abutments at the damsite to obtain further <br /> <br /> <br />data on bedrock conditions. <br /> <br />WHAT TYPE OF DAM WOULD BE BUILT? <br />TWO FORKS Dam would be a thin-arch. concrete -dam. Altllough the <br />height required for the proposed TWO FORKS Dam is yet to be determined. <br />a dam in excess of 500 feet high could be built at the selected site. <br /> <br />WOULD A POWERPLANT BE BUILT AT TWO FORKS DAM? <br />possibly. or provisions made for installation of one at a later date. <br /> <br />2 <br />