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<br />c. Recreation. The Cherry Creek Dam and Reservoir currently <br />provides excellent recreational facilities for Metropolitan Denver, <br />but these facilities cannot be efficiently expanded to satisfy <br />the area's growing recreational needs. Local interests have <br />indicated that there is a need for a regional park development <br />in the Franktovn vicinity and, therefore, consideration of <br />recreational development in the Cherry Creek basin centered at <br />the Castlewood Dam and Reaervoir site.. Because of its historic <br />and scenic attributes, the Castlewood Dam and Reservoir site <br />offers uniqUI. recreational opportunities unavailable in other <br />areas of the Cherry Creek basin. The Cherry Creek channel right- <br />of-w~ downstream from the Cherry Creek Dam is currently used for <br />hiking, horseback riding, and cycling. Construction of channel <br />improvements would permit expanding the use of the right-of-w~ <br />for these activities. <br /> <br />d. Erosion and sedimentation. The Castlewood D8IIl and <br />Reservoir would reduce the erosion problems along Cherry Creek <br />between Franktown and the Cherry Creek Reservoir. Land treatment <br />measures and floodwater detention structures along tributary <br />watercourses between Franktown and the Cherry Creek Reservoir <br />would reduce the remaining erosion problems in the reach. <br />Improvement of the Cherry Creek channel between the Cherry Creek <br />Dam and the South Platte River would virtually eliminate the <br />erosion problems along that reach of Cherry Creek. <br /> <br />e. Summary. Potential solutions to the Cherry Creek basin's <br />flood problems were developed and analyzed for the Cherry Creek <br />Reservoir project, for the areas upstream from the project, and <br />for the areas downstream from the project. It was determined <br />that zoning would be a possible and practical solution in the <br />undeveloped reaches upstream from the Cherry Creek Reservoir, <br />but within the reservoir and along Cherry, Toll Gate, and Sand <br />Creeks downstream from the dam and from the emergency spillway, <br />the extensiveness of existing development precludes zoning as a <br />practical solution. Evacuation of the Cherry Creek Reservoir <br />area would be an effective method of eliminating a part of the <br />hazards associated with the project, but the high costs and social <br />drawbacks involved in evacuation make this solution undesirable. <br />The flood proofing measures were determined to be too expensive <br />and their application too complex to be considered seriOUSly as <br />a means of reducing flood damages and risks. At the Cherry Creek <br />Reservoir and in the areas upstream from the reservoir, channel <br />enlargement or diversion would be too costly and impractical; <br />however, for the downstream areas along Cherry Creek, channel <br />improvement works could be efficiently installed. Because of <br /> <br />3084 <br /> <br />30 <br />