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<br />. <br />, <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Department of Parks and Recreation <br />Office of the Director <br /> <br />ini <br />t=J <br /> <br />City of lakewood <br /> <br />445 South Alliso" Parkwav <br />Lakewood. Colorado <br />80226-3105 <br />303/987/7800 <br /> <br />July 25, 1984 <br /> <br />Colonel William R. Andrews <br />District Engineer <br />Omaha District <br />U.S. Army Corps of Engineers <br />6014 U.S. Post Office and Courthouse <br />Omaha, Nebraska 68102 <br /> <br />Dear Colonel Andrews: <br /> <br />Reference is made to the letter to you by Mr. William McDonald, <br />Director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, dated July 16, <br />1984. The City of lakewood joins the Colorado Water Conservation <br />80ard in urging the Corps to reach a final decision by September, <br />1984, as projected. on whether water conservation storage is <br />available in Bear Creek lake. At the same time, we wish to <br />emphasize the critical importance to lakewood of the studies by <br />the Corps to ensure that the effective flood control would not be <br />jeopardized by such storage. <br /> <br />Since our meetings last summer and fall. lakewood has begun <br />studying the effects of different pool levels on the operation of <br />the park. lakewood has also undertaken the responsibility for <br />organizing other parties in an effort to submit to the Corps a <br />plan to store water in Bear Creek--a plan that addresses the need <br />for management and use of the scarce water resources in the Bear <br />Creek basin but preserves the integrity of the Bear Creek Park, <br />one of the originally authorized uses of the dam site. lakewood's <br />leadership is essential inasmuch as the Bear Creek lake is within <br />the City of lakewood and the City has assumed the costly <br />responsibility for park management along with the Corpsf"~' . ,_. " <br /> <br />. .. <br /> <br />'JUL 2 7 .~.. <br />