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<br />SECTION IV - EXISTING AND AUTHORIZED lllPROVEMENTS <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />10. CORPS OF ENGINEERS PROJECTS <br /> <br />a. Harlan County Dam. Harlan County Dam and Reservoir on the <br />Republican River in south-central Nebraska has a flood control <br />allocation of 500,000 acre-feet and an irrigation, conservation and <br />sediment reserve pool of 350,000 acre-feet. The dam controls the <br />runoff from an area of 9,277 square miles below the Trenton, Enders~ <br />Red Willow, and Medicine Creek Dams of the Bureau of Reclamation. <br />At full conservation pool, Harlan County Reservoir has a surface <br />area of 13,600 acres. Visitor-day attendance has averaged one-third <br />million annually during the past 5 years. The filling of the con- <br />servation pool was started in November 1952 but, because of the small <br />inflows during the drought period, full conservation pool storage <br />was not obtained until June 1957, when the first floodwaters were <br />impounded. The reservoir provides irrigation water for the upper <br />end of the Bostwick Irrigation Division of the Bureau of Reclamation. <br /> <br />b. Milford Dam. Milford Dam and Reservoir on the lower <br />Republican River is under construction. The damsite is 8.3 miles <br />above the confluence of the Republican and Smoky Hill Rivers. The <br />dam will control the runoff from 3,796 square miles below the Harlan <br />County and Lovewell Dams. The reservoir will have a sediment reserve <br />of 160,000 acre-feet, a water conservation storage pool of 300,000 <br />acre-feet, and a flood-control allocation of 700,000 acre-feet. At <br />full conservation pool elevation the lake will have an area of <br />14,500 acres. <br /> <br />~. Pioneer Dam. The authorized Pioneer Dam and-Reservoir <br />project on the Arikaree River, in the vicinity of the Kansas-Colorado <br />State line, was approved in the Flood Control Act of 1944 and author- <br />ized in the Flood Control Act of 1946. The project has been placed <br />in deferred status because of economic considerations. <br /> <br />~. Indianola, Nebraska. A local protection project, consisting <br />of levee construction and channel improvements along Coon Creek at <br />Indianola, Nebraska, was completed in July 1949. <br /> <br />~. Bartley. Nebraska. A local protection project, consisting <br />of levees and channel improvements along Dry Creek at Bartley, <br />Nebraska, was completed in March 1952. <br /> <br />!. Clyde, Kansas. A small flood control project is under <br />construction at Clyde, Kansas. The project will provide levees and <br />channel improvements along Elk Creek. <br /> <br />~. Emergency work. Revetments along the left bank of the <br />Republican River at McCook, Nebraska, were constructed under the <br />provisions for emergency work to protect the municipal water supply <br />line and water wells of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />14 <br />