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<br />78 <br /> <br /> <br />0[1864 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Benefits. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Complete protection of property adjacent to the floodway <br />througl1 Trinidad for the largest probable flood, would enhance <br />property values fully 25 per cent of the present values. Lands <br />adjacent to the streambed proper would benefit more, and those <br />more remote, less. The value is estimated to be $150,000, with <br />an anticipated ret\u'n of $7,500 annually. <br />It has been previously shown that there is need for <br />additional irrigation supplies in this area. It is only necessary <br />to reduce flood flows to canal capacities to make all water pass- <br />ing Trinidad usable. Under present conditions, when floods occur, <br />ditch headings are closed to prevent damage from overloading and <br />excessive silting. Reducing flows will elimillilte meandering and <br />erosion below the dam and prevent loss of water. It is true that <br />flood flows are not now entirely lost, for they become available <br />in varying degrees to other ditches in the Arka.nsas Valley. With <br />the John Martin Dam under construction, making additional water <br />available for Colorado (see Caddoll Reservoir Study No.2, Colorado <br />State Planning Commission, January 193$) the TrinidQd area would no <br />doubt be permitted to utUize .'111 water made available by the <br />Sopris flood control reservoir. With conservation of an average <br />of 5,700 acre-feet annually, and considering usable return flow <br />as 20 per cent, the resulting increused water supply for the <br /> <br />. <br />