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<br />RESOLUTION
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<br />\!!lliREAS, the Bureau of Reclamation, or the corps
<br />build a dam across the Platte rtiver approximately
<br />Morgan, Colorado, to be known as the 'Narrows Dam,
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<br />of army engineers, proposes to
<br />eight miles northwest of Fort
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<br />\!REREAS, the proposed dam, if constructed, will destr~J approximately 6,000 acres
<br />of the most proauctive and highly imj.."Toved irrigated land in Idorgan County, in
<br />addition to depriving approximately 4,000 acres of land under the Riverside Ditch
<br />from a satisfactory market for farm products, &~d
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<br />nlliRSAS, approximately sixty farmers under the Weldon Valley Ditch vrill be deprived
<br />of tl1eir homes and farms, and
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<br />l'JH:..:REAS, three tOVIl1S, \.feldona, Goodrich and Orchard, will be wi thin the boundaries
<br />of thG Narrows Dam project and will be forced to evacuate, and
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<br />VTllliREA3, Horgan County ;-,ill lose a large'"[Teage of valuable culti'Tated and irri-
<br />gatod land, and be deprived of the revenue and taxes derived from the use of this
<br />land, and
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<br />\iHEREAS, the olde3t residents of Morgan County knOll of but one year during the last
<br />fifty years that any daT-age has been done to agricultural farm lands outside of the
<br />first river hottom, which is not productive, and
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<br />l",REREAS, this proposed dam will necessitate mavin!.; 'Ue Union Pacific Railroad line
<br />for a distance of approximately thirty miles and constructing expensive ditches,
<br />roads and bridges, and
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<br />\,~~EAS, the entire project is detrimental to the social and economic interests
<br />of this county,
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<br />THEhEFOR~, Bt IT Rc~OLVED, that we vigorously oppose the building of the Narrows
<br />Dam project and urge Cl;r representatives and ~enators in Congress to use their
<br />best influence in preventing the construction of this dam; and that the Secretary
<br />of this Club be instructddto forward to each of our Representatives and Senators,
<br />a COPJ of this Resolution.
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<br />This resolution was passed unanimously at a regular meetin~ of the Brush Civic
<br />Club, Brush, Colorado,JQ~e 6, 1949.
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<br />RECOI.f!!EBDATIOi;S OF
<br />BRUSH CIVIC CLUB TO THE COLO](ADO,A?"iC COI~!iEi(Vj.T~ON BOARD RELATIVE TO
<br />FLOOD PROTJ!:CTION ON THE SOoTH FL.'.T!": "lVER A:!D i'.':i:T'[ R~F),;nr:;IJC:E TO THE
<br />NAR;lQ"':3 Djd I fROJ ",CT
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<br />- December 3, 1951 -
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<br />The Brush Civic ClUb, of Brush, ilorgan County, ~o:orado, after due delibera~
<br />tion and discussion of the proposed Narrows Dam I-"O.~c2:O on the South Platte River
<br />and after full consideration of the facts and proo:c~" has concluded:
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