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<br />.~ .""'1'." _..... <br />1 ' '"' <br />, J...: <br /> <br />.j/fNIJ. tI4u tIu 'II,ut fit ~ - MJJJe Heerh. ? <br /> <br />The Narrows Dam and Reservoir has been designed to fIt into <br /> <br />a comprehensive plan for beneficial development of water resources <br /> <br />throughout. the entire South Platte River Basin. <br /> <br />The reservoir would be the teminal water storage and flood <br /> <br />control structure on the river in Colorado. Thus, it could <br /> <br />recapture and regulate return flows from all upstream developments, <br /> <br />present and future, that '{Quld not have to be lJypassed because of <br /> <br />higher priority water ri~lts. <br /> <br />During floods, operation of the Narrows Reservoir would be <br /> <br />coordinated and integrated with the opera'tion of upstream reservoir <br /> <br />and flood detention stJuctures to procure the maximum protection. <br /> <br />The original plan for the Narr01w Unit, as developed in a <br /> <br />planning report prepared in 1951, included provisions for the <br /> <br />diversion of Bijou Creek f'loods into the Narrows Reservoir f'or <br /> <br />control. This potentiality was again analyzed following the f'lood <br /> <br />of June 1965. However, residents of the Bijou Valley are <br /> <br />interested also in upstream cor~rol and f'lood protection if this <br /> <br />alternati ve is at all possible. The Corps of' Engineers currently <br /> <br />is studying the feasibility of such control; the Soil Conservation <br /> <br />ServIce is alBo conducting a concurrent study. <br /> <br />19 <br />