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<br />Height above streambed
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<br />Crest width
<br />Crest elevation
<br />Volume of embankment
<br />Service spillway capacHy
<br />. Emer-gency spillway capacity
<br />River outlet liorks capacity
<br />Fort Morgan Canal outlet capacity'
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<br />147 feet
<br />4.2 ;piles
<br />30 feet
<br />4454.0
<br />8.8 ~illion cubic yards
<br />7B,600 cubic feet per second
<br />155,830 cubic feet per second
<br />4,800 cubic feet per second
<br />350 cubic feet per second
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<br />The Narrows Reservoir will have a total storage cepacity of
<br />973,000 acre-feet and a sUt'face area of over 25,000 acres at the top of
<br />the flood control pool (elevation 44.2B.5). Of that opacity, 475,000 aCI'e-
<br />feet will be for exclusive flood control; 373,000 acre-feet will be principali
<br />for irrigation storage, 75,000 acr.e-feet ~1ill be used for flood contt'ol dlJrir;~i
<br />the flood season and for irri9ation storage the l'emainder of the yeilr, and
<br />50,000 ac,'e-feet will be used fOl' dead and inactive storage. The reservoir
<br />will have a shoreline of 40 miles at the top of the j~int use pool,
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<br />, Relocations in the reservoir area ~1i11 involve rebuilding 26 miles
<br />of the main Union Pacific Railroad" and about 43 miles of State Highway
<br />144 and county I'cads, Power and telephone lines, oil and gas pipelines.,
<br />ilnd a cemetel'y ~ril1 also be relocated. The small settlements of Heldon",
<br />Goodrich, and Orchard with'in the resel'voir area will be acquired, and the
<br />residents relocated.
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<br />Existing Jackson Lake is used to store irrigati::m ~Iater--principally
<br />for the Fort Morgan Irrigation District. It is plar.ned to acquire the
<br />lake and SOlnl3 additional surrounding lands for recre:ltion arid fish and
<br />wi 1 dl i f(! pl'l'pOca!5. TC' stabi 1 i ze the Jackson Lake water surface t.he
<br />irriHilt.'ion storurjl' histol'ically provided will be transferred to the
<br />Narro\'ls RC~Cl'voir. Some rehabilitation of Jackson Lake flam will be
<br />required. .]<lckson Lake has il total capacity of about 35,400 acre-feet
<br />and a surface ared of approx'imately 2,500 acres wher> fi ]led.
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