WSP01174

• File Number: 8449.900
• Description: South Platte Projects - Bear Creek
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Date: 1/1/1968
• Author: USACOE
• Title: Bear Creek Basin, South Platte River and Tributaries, Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska - Letter from the Secretary of the Army
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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(4) Provide the water required for initial filling
and replenishment of evaporation losses of the recreation pool by
purchase or other means consistent with Federal and State laws, to
assure effective operation of the project for recreation with pro-
vision that the cost thereof for initial filling is eligible for
credit against the non-Federal obligation for assuming one-half the
separable costs for recreation and fish and wildlife enhancement.

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b. Hold and save the United States free from damages due
to water-rights claims resulting from construction and operation of
the project;

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c. Prevent encroachment on the flow-carrying capacity of
the Bear Creek Channel below the reservoir and the South Platte
River Channel below the confluence of Bear Creek to the extent nec-
essary to provide for effective reservoir operation in the interest
of flood control;

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d. Adequately inform effected interests, at least annually,
that the project will not provide complete flood protection; and

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e. Provide guidance and leadership in preventing unwise and
uneconomical future development of the flood plain areas by encourag-
ing prudent use of flood proofing, land regulation planning, or other
flood plain management techniques to reduce future flood losses.

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12. I also recommend that authority be granted to negotiate'with
the Colorado Department of Highways and the United States Bureau of
Public Roads for the payment or reimbursement, from project funds, of
the added costs for initial construction of the improved Colorado High-
way No. 70 along an alternative route around the reservoir site. The
added cost is currently estimated at $739,000.

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13. I further recommend that, following authorization of the
project, detailed site investigation and design be made for the pur-
pose of accurately defining the project lands required; that subsequently,
advance acquisition be made of such title to such lands as may be required
to preserve the site against incompatible developments, and participation

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