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<br />0::1835 <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />fill dam at the Sopris site with I.l capacity of 50,800 acre-feet <br /> <br /> <br />to the maximum high-water elevation of 6,283 feet above "ean sea <br /> <br /> <br />level, to reduce flood flO\fS through Trinidad within the capacity of <br /> <br /> <br />the existing floouways and structures. The drainage area above the <br /> <br /> <br />reservoir is 87% of the watershed above Trinidad. The selected <br /> <br /> <br />storage capacity is the maximurJ possible without serious encroachJent <br /> <br /> <br />upon extensive coking facilities in Reilly Canyon. Additional capacity <br /> <br /> <br />would be useful only to reduce floods of less than lOOO year frequency, <br /> <br /> <br />to channel c'"pacity, and is not warranted by the added cost. Run- <br /> <br /> <br />off frotl the drainage area b elovl the Sopris reBcrvoir may sometime <br /> <br /> <br />overtax the flood channel through the city, but the chance thereof is <br /> <br /> <br />too retlote to justify further protection works if the reiJervoir is <br /> <br /> <br />constructed. <br /> <br />Area o.nd Capacity <br /> <br /> <br />The 80pris site is located in sections 29, 30, 31, 32, T. <br /> <br /> <br />338., R.64W., section 6, T.3L.S., R.64V1., and in sections 25, 26, 35, <br /> <br /> <br />36, T. 33S., R.65N., with the dma located in the SEt of SW} of section <br /> <br /> <br />29 and in the NEt of NW4 of section 32, T.333., R.64W., Las Animas <br /> <br /> <br />County, Colorado, on the Purgatoirc River about five Jailes above <br /> <br /> <br />Trinidad, Colorado. It is easily ilCcessiblc ViL' state highway No. 12, <br /> <br /> <br />or by the Colorado and Wyoming railrllOcl. TIlE) reservoir area extends <br /> <br /> <br />upstrean from the dau throe r.1iles \lith a uaximuIil width of about one <br /> <br /> <br />r"ile. Topographic maps of th" reservoir and dam sHe Here nade by the <br /> <br /> <br />Bureau of Reclamation in 1937 \lith the reservoir ShOlIll en drllwing <br /> <br /> <br />No. 256-D-124. <br /> <br />53 <br /> <br />