WSP01521

• File Number: 8443.400
• Description: Narrows Unit Reports
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 6/15/1974
• Author: US DOL BOR
• Title: Draft Social Assessment of the Proposed Narrows Unit and Alternatives Thereto
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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social impacts of the project alternatives upnn education,

it was first important to establish the present levels of

enrollment in various schools throughout the valley, and to

know what the extent of an impact could be in terms of who is

available to be affected and how.

This would provide a factual

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bases from which to depart in the subsequent analyses.

The next step, labeled "~~~~alImp"c1:s of_the Alternatives,"

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was to examine what trends, if any, were going on, to gain a

perspective on what would be likely to happen if the alternative

of No Project were decided upon.

For example, the presence of

a gradually rising enrollment in selected schools. combined with

information concern~ng the population composition in the area,

might suggest that without a project the school enrollment would

continue to climb for the next few years, then (barring a major

change in employment and farm opportunities) peak and begin to

decline. This forecast in turn became the assessment of a "No

Project" impact upon the area against which the alternatives

could be prepared.

FOllowing this, both of the alternatives were reviewed

in terms of what difference they would be likely to make in the

"No Project" forecast.

Continuing with the example of education,

it was obvious that if the Narrows site was built that the

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WcJrlona School System would cease to exist when the project

W.1S completed.

Moreover, investigation of the matter had re-

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\'cCa 1 c'>l tlhll plans were already underway inVOlving both local

Jnd SL,ltc officials with respect to where, these students would

go (d"pending in part on where thei r parents moved).

In contrast,

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