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<br />, <br /> <br />nonn': <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />r <br /> <br />UNITED STATES <br />DEPARTHENT OF 11lE INTERIOR / <br />BUREAU OF RECLAMATION ./' <br />REGIONAL OFFICE, REGION 7 <br />Building ~6, Denver Federal Center <br />Denver, Colorado 80225 <br /> <br />BACKGROUND 'MATERIAL <br /> <br />DAMS ON THE SOUTH PLATTE RIVER <br />--- <br /> <br />The Bureau of Reclamation's Answer to Flood Control &Ild <br />Augumented Water Supplies on Colorado's South Platte River <br /> <br />The shocking floods of June 1965 on the South Platte River have <br /> <br />provided a sudden and costly ,lesson. The answer is clear. Dams must <br /> <br /> <br />be built to capture the phenomenal flood flows generated by cloudburst <br /> <br />rains and sent plunging down tributaries to the main streams to wreak <br /> <br /> <br />damage for hundreds of miles dO,wnstream. But, wherever possible, <br /> <br />multiple-purpose daIIIs should be built -- not simply to control floods, <br /> <br />but also, and more important, to provide continuing supplies of water <br /> <br />ye~-after-year for municipal, industrial, and irrigation uses. <br /> <br />The Bureau of Reclamation dams proposed for construction at the <br /> <br />TWO FORKS and NARROWS sites on the South Platte River are truly <br /> <br />multiple-purpose. Not the. least of these purposes is the flood control <br /> <br />insurance they would provide when Nature goes on a rampage. <br /> <br />Devasting floods will always be a possibility in the South Platte <br /> <br />area. Unless, and until they can be blocked by dams, the cities, the <br /> <br />industries, the farms, and the people of the South Platte are as <br /> <br />vulnerable as sitting ducks. <br />