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<br />28. Pueblo obtains its municipal water from the Arkansas River.
<br />During periods of low flows the water is of poor quality. The water
<br />is relatively hard and unpalatable, In 1938, Pueblo acquired the
<br />Wurtz ditch which imports annually about 2,000 acre-feet of water
<br />from the western slope, Much of the yield from that transmountain
<br />project is lost to municipal use for lack of storage space, The city
<br />has indicated an immediate need for 5,000 acre-feet of municipal
<br />water (including the 2,000 acre-feet of Wurtz ditch water) and an
<br />ultimate additional need of 15,000 acre-feet by the year 2000. The
<br />city has also expressed interest in obtaining treatment of its present
<br />supply of 21,000 acre-feet.
<br />29. Oanon Oity and Rocky Ford obtain municipal water from the
<br />Arkansas River, Oanon Oity has not requested project water,
<br />30, The towns of Manzanola, Rocky Ford, La Junta, Las Animas,
<br />knd Lamar, and the offstream towns of Orowley, Wiley, and Eads
<br />have requested treated municipal water from the project to replace
<br />entirely their present supplies, Their immediate needs are about
<br />8,000 acre-feet,
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<br />FLoon CONTROL
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<br />31. Few damaging floods of record have occurred in the diversion
<br />area and in the Arkansas Valley down to Oanon Oity, From there
<br />eastward, however, damaging floods increase in frequency and volume
<br />to the mouth of the Purgatoire River. The largest flood of record
<br />in the project area occurred in June 1921. Intense rains caused
<br />flows at Pueblo estimated, at 103,000 second-feet, Downstream
<br />tributaries contributed to the flood until the peak of 200,000 second-
<br />feet was reached at La Junta, The flood killed at least 78 persons;
<br />property damages exceeded $19 million, including $10 million in
<br />Pueblo,
<br />32. As a result of that disastrous flood, a barrier dam across the
<br />Arkansas River, 6 miles west of Pueblo, and an improved floodway
<br />channel through the city were completed in 1926, Another flood-
<br />':lontrol structure, the John Martin Reservoir, located on the Arkansas
<br />River near Lamar, 0010" was completed in 1949 by the Oorps of
<br />Engineers, A multiple-purpose project, 281,000 acre-feet of its
<br />701,000 acre-foot capacity are allocated to flood controL
<br />33, A flood danger still exists from Pueblo downstream to the John
<br />Martin Reservoir. The Oorps of Engineers has estimated that the
<br />annual damages along that reach of the liver average $890,000. The
<br />initial development could eliminate about 66 percent of that probable
<br />damage,
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<br />ASSOCIATED NEEDS
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<br />34. Sediment control, stream-pollution abatement, enhancemenL
<br />of the environment for fish a.nd wildlife, and provision for recrea.tion
<br />a.re other needs of the project area associated with water develop-
<br />ment, Industrial expansion, conservation of forest dnd range lands,
<br />and stabilization of the entire economy by balanced diversification
<br />of interest are recognized as long-range objectives. The initial
<br />development could immediately ameliorate some of the problems
<br />stemming from those needs, Resolution of the long-range objectives
<br />,vill require coordinated and unselfish cooperation by all citizens,
<br />agencies, and entities concerned.
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