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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CUTLET WORKS: (Cont'd)
Service outlet,
streamflow:
Type

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Invert
Gates and size
Design discharge
capacit;r

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STILLING BASIN
Type

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Chute length
Basin width
Basin length
Basin floor
Design tailwater
Streambed

Table 1 (Cont'd)

General data

Storage
in
ac.-ft.

Elev. in
feet
m.S.l.

Surface
area in
acres

Gated low level inlet
to service conduit

5540.0

1 - 6 ft. x 6 ft.

835 c.f.s. @
Elevation 5576.0

St. Anthony Falls
type chute-basin
50 feet
18.5 feet
13.0 feet

5512.8
5526.0
5520.0

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3.

DESCRIPTION OF THE BUREAU OF OOTDOOR RECREATION'S RECOMMENDATION

a. General. The Bureau of Outdoor Recreation and the Colorado
Game, Fish, and Parks Department have recommended that llcquisition
and development of additional lands and Soda lakes facilities be
included in the Mount Carbon project reconunendations. The Bureau
of Outdoor Recreation asserts that, unless these additional lands
are acquired and developed, the true recreation potential of the area
will be irrevocably lost.

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~ b. Land requirements. Based upon current land acquisition
policies, the recommended plan required the purchase of 1,479 acres
of land for project construction. Purchase of an additional 125 acres
for project-associated recreation development was recommended. The
proposal of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation for optimum recreation
enhancement of the area would involve the acquisition of 758 acres
of land for recreation purposes, or 633 acres more than contemplated
in the recommended plan. The limits of the maximum pool, the purchase
lines for the recommended plan, and the additional area proposed by
the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation are illustrated on Plate 1 of this
supplement.

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