WSP05149

• File Number: 8180.800
• Description: Purgatoire River Project
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 9/1/1949
• Author: RJ Tipton
• Title: Engineering Report on Flood Control and Irrigation District with Particular Reference to the Piedmont Bridge Dam and Reservoir Site
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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the upper basin without reservoir development

and such development is precluded because of
scarcity of reservoir possibilities.........".
This was followed by a preliminary examination report on flood
control of the watershed of the Purgatoire and Aplshapa Rivers

in LoS Animas County. The report was unfavorable to the survey

of the rivers in Las ft~imas County at federal expense. However,
the report was not published, and the Congress has not acted on

it.

A detailed report of the Purgatoire River was prepared py

the Corps of Engineers and submitted to the Congress as House
Document No. 387, 78th Congress, 2nd Session. In that report

the Chief of Engineers recommended improvement of the Purgatoire
River by levees and channel works for the protection of the City
of Trinidad, at an estimated cest to the Government of $909,000.

Local interests would be required to provide the rights-of-:way,
make the necessary che.nges in bridges and utili ties, and' main-

taio and operate all the works in accordance with reBulations

prescribed by the Secretary of War. The cost of the improvement
to local interests was estimated at $126,000, making a total
estj.mated project cost of $1,035,000. The project was authorized
by the Congress in Public IE.w No. 534, 78th Congress, 2nd Ses-
sion. In December, 1948, it was reported by the District Engi-
neer that a total of $30,000 had been alloted for planning the
authorized project, that an estimated $45,000 was required for
completing the planning, and that $1,971,240 was required for

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construction.

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