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<br />I)OlG33 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The various features of the Silt Project move toward completion. <br /> <br /> <br />Rifle Gap Dam is more than 75 percent completed, Placement of the dam <br /> <br /> <br />embankment and spillway structure concrete continues. The contractor <br /> <br /> <br />plans to make closure of the outlet works about November 1, 1966, thus <br /> <br />initiating storage of water behind the dam. The Silt Pump Canal is com- <br />pleted, and the Davie Ditch is nearing completion with over 90 percent of <br />the contract work accomplished. Concrete placements in the Silt Pumping <br /> <br />Plant go ahead. The contract is about 60 percent completed. The Dry <br /> <br />Elk Valley Lateral is completed, and satisfactory progress is being made <br /> <br />on excavation for canal rehabilitation and construction of the Grass <br /> <br />Valley Canal Siphon. Overall completion of this contract is listed at <br />about 70 percent. <br />~/ Bids were opened on September 8, 1966,for construction of the Silver <br />Jack Dam, principal feature of the Bostwick Park Project in west-central <br />Colorado. The apparent low bidder is Johnson Brothers Highway and Heavy <br />Constructors, Inc., and D. H. Blattner and Sons, Inc., a joint venture <br />(Litchfield, Minnesota), with a bid of $3,539,101. Award of contract is <br />pending. The dam will be an earthfill embankment on Cimarron Creek rising <br />138 feet above the streambed with a crest length of 1070 feet. The Bost- <br />wick Park Project will provide a supplemental water supply for 4,500 <br />acres of presently inadequately irrigated land and a full water supply <br />for 1,600 acres of new land. <br /> <br /> <br />The transmission system for the Colorado River Storage Project is <br /> <br /> <br />nearing completion with 230-kv lines from Cheyenne to Glen Canyon and two <br /> <br /> <br />345-kv lines from Glen Canyon to Phoenix in OPeration. The latest of <br /> <br /> <br />these, the second Glen Canyon-Flagstaff-Pinnacle Peak 345-kv line, was <br /> <br />2 <br />